Always remember this story of the plane tearing apart midflight...
Posted on 03/30/2008 11:06:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Aloha Airlines said Sunday it will halt all passenger service after Monday, signaling the end of an airline that has served Hawaii for more than 60 years. Aloha, which filed for bankruptcy for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 20, was a casualty of fierce competition and rising fuel prices. The airline said it will stop taking reservations for flights after Monday.
We simply ran out of time to find a qualified buyer or secure continued financing for our passenger business," said Aloha President David Banmiller in a statement. "We had no choice but to take this action."
Aloha has suffered since Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group Inc. launched a new interisland carrier called go! airlines in 2006, triggering a local airfare war.
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Always remember this story of the plane tearing apart midflight...
There go my FF miles I had with them. Aloha.
They should have never gone with that Convertable 737.
All that means for us, is it will now be very expensive and difficult to vacation in HI. Sigh - I guess it's back to SoAz or SoCal to thaw out and enjoy a In and Out Burger.
Sorry to hear that. They were a lovely little airline.
This will make Inter Island travel a nightmare.
Flew on them many times interisland. They have been in existence since 1946. Very sad.
Flew Aloha last December; I can understand why they went under. They blow.
Come eat some crawfish and boudin here in Louisiana.
You’ve still got Hawaii Air, but that also means their rates are going to increase with the decreased competition.
Aloooooha! Sad. I remember flying them in the past, sitting behind the pilot who was flying with his window open. I loved the refreshment service: (With dixie cups and can in hand) “Guava juice? Or no guava juice? Guava juice? Or no guava juice?”
Pineapples gone, now aloha airline gone; all due to skyhigh labor rates in Hawaii, what’s next?
Another big Democratic supporter who help put themselves out of business.
It is mudbug time, isn't it? I might take you up on that!
People still live there?
From looking at the news the one not ruined by the ;cane wuz run off by the Feds......the ones not killed by fumes in the FEMA trailers that is.
Slidell - the place it is ....
Slapp’n skeeters, ating de crayfish and beer at da depot listen’n to the Bayou Jam (insert really bad cajun accent here) Ya know? It’s da best.
Used to go TDY down to Eglin (Nicevillie) to get out that way every time my “gumbo low level”light illuminated.....
There’s still Go! Airlines. Their pilots are rested and ready for service.
The dim-dem philosophy has long ruled in Hawaii, fueled by the seemingly never ending tourist trade and the BIG BUCKS that flow from it. Now comes the world wide credit crunch and that tourist trade inevitably dwindles. Suddenly the something-for-nothing Hawaiian dems wake up to the real facts, that their lifeblood is oozing away and they are a LONG way from anywhere, lost out in the middle of a vast ocean. Supplies run low, prices skyrocket; they have long since forgotten self sufficiency. How many people could Hawaii support if it was back to the pre-Captain Cook days? 911 and its drop in the tourist trade was a warning, quickly forgotten it seems.
Then too, tidal waves hit HI every 10 years on the average, over the last 100 years. It’s been over 30 years since the last one. They DID have a recent earthquake/undersea landslide near Kona though...
Oh yeah, plenty of us left, and the crawfish are just starting to get some size to them!!
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