Rising fuels costs and fears of a recession have prompted Skybus Airlines to cut flights and slow its expansion. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that growing as aggressively as we wanted to grow isn’t particularly wise,” Bill Diffenderffer, Skybus chief executive, told The Columbus Dispatch. The airline that was expecting to double in size in the next year now is setting its growth rate at half that pace, according to the report. Diffenderffer said changes are necessary for the airline to stay on course for profitability. The airline plans to cut some destinations where sales have not been strong and to fly to other destinations less frequently. Profitable routes, however, will see more flights, Diffenderffer told the paper.
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