Silverjet Adieu
So the third of the business class only airlines has cratered, or flamed out, or gone down, or experienced a sudden loss of cabin pressure, or whatever airline related simile you want to use. Silverjet we hardly knew you. Seriously, I always did want to do a European trip on one of these airlines (which included Eos and MaxJet) but now I've missed the boat, that ship has sailed....I think I'm going to stop right there.
When all three airlines launched in close proximity to each other we felt that there would eventually be a shake out but all three failing wasn't something even the most pessimistic of us foresaw. But then again we also didn't foresee oil rising up above $130 a barrel or we'd have been putting a lot more of our money on oil futures. It probably didn't help that the three airlines were all servicing the same market -
Ah, well, I guess we'll have to scrape together our gold chains, sell them, and fly on Virgin Atlantic in the future. We're not altogether broken up by this turn of events as one might expect. Well, except for the bit where we have to get rid of the gold chains. I keep telling the wife that the disco era will rise again someday and we'll be sad we got rid of the chains and the platform shoes and the polyester shirts.
