Here's some free advice for anyone starting an airline. If you're going to make YouTube videos, try not to read your script off a cue card. Sadly, we're too late to help out Family Airlines.
The upstart hopes to offer laughably low fares--LAS to LAX for $19--out of its Las Vegas hub by packing passengers into 747s. But that's hardly the best aircraft for short-haul routes in an age of pricey fuel. And let's not mention the fact that McCarran International already hosts a half dozen well-established low cost carriers.
Amazingly, Family Air doesn't seem too worried about escalating fuel prices because as CEO Barry Michaels says
I'm a believer that everything you see or touch should be paid for by advertisers.
So it's gonna be like Skybus, only with old, gas-guzzling planes flown by sketchy pilots? Sounds like a winner!
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