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Hawaiian 5O
Hahahaha.
There’s a market for BOTH SWA and HAL doing Inter Island. The other thing we need to remember at HAL Is that island air just went out of business. These Southwest flights at least for the foreseeable future are not going to do much more than replace what island air was doing.
Yes, a couple years down the road this could get really ugly for us but at least for the immediate future I’m not worried.
No SWA hate out here at all.
Just curious, were you at HAL when AQ was around?
Wait until SWA sees just how big of a cashcow interisland really is... I don't think the bean counters in Dallas realize that just yet. Once they figure it out, watch us throw -700's into the ETOPS mix and doing what Aloha did back in the day flying interisland. But unlike Aloha, which was poorly run, undercapitalized, debt-laden, flying the old clacked out -200's interisland, and having that market be literally the bulk of its existence, Southwest is a vastly different animal.
I think Hawaiian's strengths are actually in the long haul flying and I think focusing on that will keep Hawaiian going strong. If Hawaiian decided to go toe-to-toe with Southwest, that'd be a BAD, BAD, BAD move.