JetAmerica possibly to serve PTI?

Not your father's JetAmerica...the airline's original namesake was a victim of deregulation in the 1980s, based in Long Beach, Calif. flying MD-80s, and eventually being absorbed by Alaska Airlines.

The "new" JetAmerica kicks off in July with $9 fares, and has the Triad in its radar scope.

Another SkyBus? Another failure with its hands out? Hope not. (but its website doesn't seem to be working)

N&R:

Clearwater, Fla.-based JetAmerica said on Tuesday that 34 nonstop passenger flights a week will start July 13 at Toledo, Ohio; South Bend, Ind.; Melbourne, Fla.; Newark, N.J.; Minneapolis and Lansing, Mich. Twenty-eight flights start or end at Newark Liberty International Airport. The carrier will add six more flights — from Toledo to Minneapolis — starting Aug. 14.

And in its news release announcing the new service, the airline stated it could expand to the Triad. Among its "future focus cities under consideration in 2009" are Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

John Weikle, chief executive of JetAmerica, said the subsidies from some of the cities it will serve in July will help insulate the new carrier from spikes in jet fuel prices. Higher fuel prices have contributed to the failures of at least four major airlines since 9/11. Smaller carriers have also been hurt.

Good luck...God bless...

E.C. :)