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Subject: Pool report #1 airline meeting – Public Pool
Wondering what happened in the Trump/Airline CEO meeting yesterday? Well, the White House press pool was there for the beginnin and this is the report. Probably best not to read it. Not only does Trump think the … Read the post
Category: Island Air
Yep, I’m still traveling. I will be slower at approving any flagged comments and responding to any emails. I’ll be back as usual on Monday.
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Little Island Air is getting littler. It is pulling out of Kaua’i entirely (leaving Hawaiian as the only airline flying interisland service there) and … Read the post
Word out of Hawai’i is that Larry Ellison, multi-billionaire CEO of Oracle, isn’t content with just having bought most of the island of Lanai and interisland carrier Island Air. Now he’s interested in buying another interisland carrier, go! to expand his empire. One can only wonder… what the heck is … Read the post
Recently, little Island Air of Hawai’i decided that it was time to rebrand. The new logo and marketing effort was meant to support the airline in a new direction, mostly visibly in the form of new ATR aircraft. In general, I think airlines are way too quick to just rebrand … Read the post
The first casualty in the battle for Hawai’i (see this post) has arrived. No, it’s not an airline going away (yet), but it does involve nice looking airplanes.
Island Air had been operating 37 seat Dash-8 aircraft for years, but recently, they decided to expand with three 74 seat
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The Hawaiian airline market is an interesting place. You put three airlines in the islands and everybody’s happy, but you add a fourth and it all goes crazy.
That’s right, it’s time to break out the steel cage for another round of the Hawaiian brawl.
When go! started flying, it … Read the post