Posted on 03/30/2008 11:06:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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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