What is "skybus"

Skybus may refer to:

• Skybus Airlines, a low-cost airline that operated in the United States between 2007 and 2008
• Skybus Super Shuttle, an airport bus service in Melbourne, Australia
• Skybus (Aqua Avia), a proposed privately owned airline in New Zealand during the 1970s
• Skybus Metro, a rapid transit system in India
• Isles of Scilly Skybus, a British airline
• Transit Expressway Revenue Line, commonly known as "Skybus", a proposed people mover system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Skybus was an attempt to create a privately owned commercial airline in New Zealand during the 1970s, a time of state-owned public transport. It was a brainchild of the entrepreneur Matt Thomson. Matt Thompson was a businessman who had founded the successful Car Haulaways Transport Group. Frustrated by problems with the Cook Strait ferries, he then proceeded to set up Nationwide Air which utilized two ATL.98 Carvairs on freight work from the late 1970s.