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That article was from February. Have things worsened or maybe gotten better? I hate to see competition leave the market place AGAIN!
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see the second & third link for the current update, the airplanes are needed on the mainland for profitable midwest airlines routes
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Their not making any money and thats sad because they are so much better than Go Airlines. Their arrival gate in Honolulu is the closest gate to the main terminal for mainland connections which I appreciate. Unfortuneately they lack things that the other two competing airlines have in place like on-line check in and printing of boarding passes and a free first checked bag. Their looking at a multi millon dollar 3rd quarter deficit. I flew with them last week to Honolulu and back and we had only 4 people in the plane on the way over and about 12 on the return. Meanwhile Hawaiian packs their planes in with their almost hourly departures.
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and if your mainland connecting flight happens to be southwest - heads up
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...oved+parts
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And this just in..Alaska Airlines is having a fall sale from Sept14 through Dec14th...Honolulu to Seattle for $149.00 one way or Kona to Seattle for 159.00 one way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/promo/f...90830_SALE
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Hmmm, never heard of them before. We buy round trip tickets to and from Hawaii often and this airlines has never popped up on any of the online booking services (we check 4 of the major ones) that we use.
I'd assume they are going under because they don't have good booking representation/exposure. We stick with Hawaii based airlines when heading to Hawaii and I thought Hawaiian was the only one left after Aloha stopped operations.
Ahhh, I get it. They are in state only... well, good luck with that one. They need to offer one daily flight from Seatac, Portland and or L.A. or pick a few major mainland cities. Otherwise they cannot compete with Hawaiian inner island flights (are filled with mainland Hawaiian air connecting flight passangers).
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
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They also have great koa - ogg direct service
