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Originally Posted by Bigtime
According to some tweets from a CBC Calgary reporter Enerjet is trying to raise $80M to be flying as a "ultra low cost" airline by the end of 2013.
The emphasis being that they will shift over to becoming a scheduled airline, and not just a charter operator anymore.
Here are the tweets:
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Interesting. I'd love to see an ULCC come to Canada, maybe something in the Allegiant mold, but with bigger cities. It would be nice to have another airline around to keep the bigger guys honest.
I think an opportunity would be to buy a used fleet (the Saudia MD-90s, maybe?) and fly mostly low utilization, and then ramp up capacity during peak holdiday times. My father in law wanted to join us on a cruise leaving from Florida over Christmas, but wasn't happy when he heard it'd be $1000 to get YEG-FLL on our dates.