in early 2007 bellingham international hosted nonstop service to three destinations by the short-lived western airlines which was operating boeing 737-400 jets and was based in bellingham. western attempted to establish a small hub at the airport with nonstop service to ontario, california (ont), phoenix, arizona (via the phoenix-mesa gateway airport, aza) and san diego, california (san). later the same year, skybus airlines operated nonstop flights to their columbus, ohio (cmh) hub with airbus a319 jetliners but then shut down quickly like western airlines had done earlier.