How much are airbus tickets?

The only thing Skybus customers get is a seat on the plane at a price of $10, $30 or $150.

Passengers are charged $5 to check a bag, $8 for a blanket, $15 for a pillow, and $10 to be at the front of the line, because there are no designated seats.

Except for babies and people with medical needs, passengers are not allowed to bring food or drink on board so Skybus eliminates any competition for its $5 Budweisers and $10 meat loaf dishes.

They don’t show movies. And by doing away with first class seating, it squeezes 144 coach seats on a model of plane that has 124 or 126 seats in two classes on most other carriers — although Skybus’s 30-inch coach ‘‘seat pitch,’’ or spacing between seats, is identical to Northwest Airlines and US Airways in coach.

To continue to hold down costs: They don’t offer a phone number customers can call. Tickets are only offered online, and the only access to Skybus customer service is the gate agent at the airport.

One big money maker for the airline is making its jets flying advertisements for Nationwide Insurance, which pays a hefty premium to get its name and website on the fuselage and inside the cabin.

In the beginning, Skybus is flying to seven other destinations besides Portsmouth from its Columbus hub: Richmond; Greensboro, N.C.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Kansas City, Mo.; Burbank, Calif.; Oakland, Calif., and Bellingham, Wash.

Like Portsmouth, which is 55 miles north of Boston and had no regularly scheduled jet service to or from anywhere before Skybus began operations Tuesday night, Bellingham, Burbank, and Oakland are meant to be low cost, if remote, options for getting into the big metropolitan markets nearby of Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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