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Hodge, 35, has served as chiegf financial officerfor Columbus, Ohio-based Skybus sinc e March 2007. Diffenderffer informed the Skybus board of directors he is resignintg to return tothe book-writingb career he left in 2005 when he joined the startu p airline as CEO. "The board has great confidence in the ability of Mike along with our president and COO Ken to lead the company into the next phase of its said C. Robert Kidder, chairman of the Skybuws boardof directors. "Mike's understanding of the keys to successdfor Skybus, his strong work ethif and his commitment to Skybus values are amony the reasons the board asked Mike to lead Skybus at this crucial phase of our growth.
" Hodge joined Skybus in 2007 after serving as a managing director and airlined industry analyst at Tiger Management, a major New York-based hedged fund that participated in the initial equity fundinv of Skybus. He is a graduate of Princetomn University and the HarvardBusiness School. Diffenderffef steps down weeks after the company bega n reducing and cutting routes and curbing expansiojn plans at its Columbus and Greensboro hubs in light of heavyt increases in fuel The airline also has raisedr its reservation charge and baggage and priority seatin fees inrecent weeks. In the third quarter of Skybus' first full quarter of the company loggeda $16.
w2 million loss on $22 million in operatingf revenue, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of
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