Goodbye, Columbus (and Nashville, too)

Skybus may have had to drop a few routes, but on the other hand, the discounter may be winning a few victories. When it started flights at Columbus last May, sceptics were (as they often are) sceptical, but the carrier is adding routes and may have chased a foe out of its home town. JetBlue, the New York JFK-based discounter, is ending its service at Columbus as of 6 January next year. The announcement came just about a year after JetBlue began flights between JFK and Ohio's capital city. But in the year since, it just couldn’t make a buck, even when its planes were all but full. So Skybus has only one major hometown low-fares rival, Southwest, and they seem to be able to coexist in the central Ohio city.