JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)

At least when Canada3000 took a dive, they refunded all credit card transactions (took nearly a year). And AirCanada took on some of the fares....but these guys took down all the signs and everything!

Don't forget that jetsgo plane plane in Calgary that landed 1/2 off the runway, damaging the flaps, hydraulics and landing gear, Transport will have fun with that one.

Snow...

oh and add to that the jetsgo plane that blew its engine on its take off roll, returned to the gate and waited until maintenance showed up before telling anyone the engine blew, meen while 7 aircraft landed and took-off from the same runway.

Snow...

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Interesting. I know that credit card holders in the US can refuse to pay the bill because the banks can't pass through a charge for a service they've never received. The banks then have to go after the airline for whatever compensation they can get. The same doesn't apply in Canada?

Yes, the same applies here. When "Canada 3000" airline went under a few years ago, credit card holders were the only people that got all their money back, if you paid cash or cheque (check) you got about 10 cents on the dollar -- that happened to my neighbour.

Wait until United goes under. God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

I think Jetsgo bought some of the planes. Apparently the CEO of Jetsgo was the CEO of Canada3000. Get this....his business plan was to fly inefficient planes (fuel-wise) and minimize maintenance (boom..what was that!).

After fuel prices went way up they started losing...something like 58million in the last 6months. Now, 58million is a LOT in Canada!

despite what CBC and CTV are reporting Michael Leblanc didn't create jetsgo from the ashes of Canada 3000. He owned Royal over inflated the profit margin on the books, then sold Royal Airlines to Canada 3000 for way more then it was worth (hence the downfall of Canada 3000). Before Royal "Mikey White" also owned City Express (operated out of Toronto Isl.) which also went bankrupt and before that he owned another airline (great lakes air maybe) that also went bankrupt. When you operate your maintenance on a dollar store budget and charge fares at dollar store rates you can't expect to be in business long.

Now it times for the Goverment to realize that we can't support this great number of airlines. 3 national and international carriers is all our population can sustain.

Snow...

Harvard MBA, no doubt.

Gee, he sounds just like our own Frank Lorenzo. Thank god the FAA or someone found him unfit to run an airline. He sank Trans Texas, sank Eastern, and very nearly sank Continental. Then he wanted to start another one and the gummint said no.

Didn't Jetsgo emerge from the ashes of the Canadian 3000 failure?

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I had a nightmare last night that Kirsty Alley was a good actress and was going to eat me!

I'm always amazed that the victims of these corporate thugs never visit violence upon them. They will complain loud and long to travel agents, credit card companies, lawyers, friends, etc, but nodody ever seems to look the guy up and punch him in the nose. Is it timidity, or is the thin veneer (wood content) of civilization thicker than we think? The concept of Limited Liability is stretched pretty thin here. Brian, in Cedar

That's not a nightmare, that's just a bad dream. A nightmare would be dreaming that Kirsty Alley was a good actress and YOU had to eat HER!

Didja hear Jay Leno the other night. "Kirty Alley has pledge $100 to (some charity) every time she slips off her diet. So far they've received ten million dollars!"

I think we typically go for the nearest person in the chain! So, we go to the travel agent, cuz we purchased through them....etc...

I think some ppl get the impression that it's like one of those 'midnight moves' where the company has dissipated in to the ether and there's no where to go and yell.

In this case, that's a good idea.

Travel agents in Canada have an insurance fund to cover this kind of thing. If you booked a JetsGo flight through a travel agent you'll get a refund. As well, those who booked through agents would have had a number to call for assistance booking alternate flights when JetsGo flipped the switch and had the best chance of getting a seat on another flight.

A travel agent doesn't just go to the same internet site you can and book your flight for a fee... They work for their money. I'll use my agent even when I want to rent a vehicle for a week. She charges me $10 and saves me $100.

But people want the "best price" rather than the "best value". And let's be serious about JetsGo... $1 flights? Across Canada? People expected them to survive? When they started flying I knew they didn't have a hope, and there was no way I would have booked with them. Hell, they had more service complaints that Air Canada, and were less than

What limited liability? As CEO, he is not at arm's length and is _fully_ liable. The entire board of directors should be stripped of every penny they ever hoped to have.

Mike