“Skybus Airlines announced it was shutting down Saturday, with the low-cost airline blaming the “insurmountable” pressures of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment.
Columbus, Ohio-based Skybus became the fourth airline this week to close or announce plans to do so.”

From MarketWatch (emphasis mine)

The others are Aloha, ATA and Champion Air. Fuel surcharges for flights are skyrocketing and the airlines have separated them from their advertised prices. For example I recently saw a one way price of $220 for a NY to London flight. Sounds pretty good right? Except that it did not include a $160 fuel surcharge each way.

The impact of rising energy costs is everywhere. Food, commodities, travel, transportation- you name it. Yet we are, as a nation, doing virtually nothing about it (except for begging OPEC to give us a deal). History is going to look back and wonder how we could ignore the breadth of change that is upon us.