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Rising fuel prices and increased competition has pushed JetBlue Airways out of Tucson, a company spokesman said today.

The company has offered one daily nonstop flight from Tucson to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport since the fall of 2006. It will continue to offer that flight until May 12, said spokesman Sebastian White.

"There's a lot of low-cost competition and the spike in oil prices made it an unproftable city for us," he said.

The price of fuel had increased more than 50 percent since JetBlue started flying from Tucson in September 2006.

"Gas prices hit long-haul flights harder that other routes," White said. "Frankly, the price of oil right now is just too steep to sustain a route like that."

The New York-based company would have to raise fares from Tucson to keep the flight, but that would mean less people would fly, he said.

However, JetBlue will keep its twice-a-day Phoenix-to-New York flights, he said.

Nine ticket-counter workers will be offered other JetBlue jobs or severance packages, White said.