Students who need rides to and from the airport this
Thanksgiving won’t need to fork over fistfuls of cash to taxi
drivers.

AirBus — a Michigan Student Assembly-sponsored program
— will be available to transport students to and from Detroit
Metropolitan Airport for only $13 round-trip. MSA passed a
resolution to fund the AirBus program at last night’s
meeting.

AirBus’s charter buses will pick up students on Nov. 25
and 26 at the Michigan Union and Mary Markley and Bursley residence
halls. Students can buy tickets for their ride home at Metro
Airport on Nov. 30 and charge them to their student account using
their MCards.

Students can buy tickets now at the Union Ticket Office. A
one-way ticket is $8, but students can save $3 by buying a
round-trip ticket for $13.

When students buy their tickets, they will be provided with a
schedule for rides back to Ann Arbor. By scheduling their ride home
at the airport upon return, students will avoid the possibility of
missing their airBus ride, said MSA President Angela Galardi.

“Then, if people’s flights are delayed they’re
not restricted to a certain route, so people aren’t worried
that they’re going to miss their airBus plan,” Galardi
said.

“I think that students will have an opportunity to really
benefit from what MSA has to offer via airBus,” said MSA
Communications Committee Chair Courtney Skiles. “It saves
students tons of money and time and will get them safely to the
airport over break.”

This is the program’s second year of operation. Due to
last year’s overwhelming student use of the program, airBus
will use twice as many buses this year to transport students.

“It’s been an incredible success the last three
times we’ve run it. It’s very reliable. It’s
cheap. It’s really easy for students. We encourage any
student to use airBus because it is very user-friendly,”
Galardi said.

“We’re so excited about this. We as MSA see airBus
as a way that student government is really making a difference for
students and really filling a void where service is
needed.”

The airBus program also will be available for winter and spring
breaks.