Talk:Skybus Airlines destinations

Distance to Destinations
It there a standard for these distances from airport to city? It seems odd that most measurements from secondary airports to advertised city are from airport to middle of downtown. If Skybus flew to San Francisco International Airport instead of Oakland, we wouldn't bother putting distance since the airport is in San Francisco. But the distance from the airport to downtown San Francisco is 13.3 miles. It is the same metro area, so it seems weird that the list of destinations makes some airports seem farther than they really are. I don't know what a good alternative would be, however, so maybe someone has a good idea. I guess the possibilities I have come up with are:

1) Include distances from airport to advertised cities for ALL airports and ALL airlines. This would be difficult and time-consuming, but it would be fair to all airlines.

2) Change the distance from airport to downtown to airport to edge of city limits which is the shortest distance from the airport to the advertised city. This seems like it would make more sense for people actually trying to determine distances to where they are headed.  This, however, would probably be more difficult than option #1 since I don't know of an easy way to map distances to a city's edge.  On the upside, it could only be done for secondary airports or airports that lie outside the city limits of the city they serve.

3) Don't bother with distance from airport to advertised city if the airport is within the metro area of the city advertised. This sort of makes sense since Oakland and San Francisco are the same area and from a traveller's perspective, could be considered the same place (please don't comment on how different the cities are, I am making a point about location).

4) Leave the distance how they are now.

I personally favor #2, but a good way to get distances would have to be discussed. Please share your opinions here, and if you have another alternative you want to add, please do (lable it #5, #6, etc. so that we all know what everyone it talking about).Polypmaster (talk) 14:11, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with your points but we should use Google Earth and put coordinates in between the airport being flown to and the airport they advertize flying into. If Skybus says they fly you Seattle but drop you off in Bellingham we should use the road distance between Bellingham airport and Seattle airport (Where you were gonna go if you had not used Skybus). --70.71.13.87 (talk) 06:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * As I said we have to measure the distance where Skybus drops you off to where they say or they should drop you off. Not center of town. If Skybus did not exist a guy from Columbus buying a ticket to SFO would have landed at SFO International and gone where ever. We dont know he was going to center of town. He could be from San Mateo for instance. We should measure the airport Skybus drops you off to where they should be dropping you off. Unless they call it Columbus Oakland and not San Francisco. Going from Dublin to Paris should be Dublin to Orly airport normaly and with almost all other airlines. But Ryan Air drops you off somewhere else. We should measure where they drop you off from the normal airport not center of Paris.--70.71.13.87 (talk) 04:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll have to agree with Ian here. Skybus specifically advertises the distance to downtown wherever, not the distance to the "primary" airport. Since the company's market is targeted at people who might not otherwise visit its destinations, I find it doubtful that most people flying would know the difference between SFO and OAK. Therefore, we should keep the distances as they were.--Analogue Kid (talk) 05:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion?
Should this article be deleted? The contents really don't matter anymore. Also, should the contents mean anything? The airline is gone, and so therefore has no destinations. Basketball110 My story/Tell me yours 01:49, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * No, it's still factual information about the airline- if anything it should be merged back into the Skybus Airlines article, but I think it's too big and should be a separate article. Sox 23 01:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)