Originally Posted by
Opakapaka
Were you at HAL in 2008? I was at Aloha and one of your capts put a flag out of the window stating Victory when AQ went out of business. Then you’ve had a monopoly interisland since, gouging the locals with high prices. Ask anyone one about Hawaiian and they’re ****ed how they treat locals. Well, now I’m at swa and love the fact that we are freaking you guys out. Well you should be cause you’re gonna start losing profits. Fair is fair!!! Maybe now you’ll take care of the locals cause the last 10 years you haven’t. This is no Aloha your competing with either. And if you can’t stand being on a swa flight for more than 30 minutes... Guess what, the locals will.
Finally you’ll see what it’s like to compete. Cheers
“Gouging”... WTF? Let’s just call it what it is, there was too much capacity and prices were too low. Waaay too low. The inter-island fairs out here were never market value based on a profitable airline business model.
The distance between HNL and KOA Is roughly the same distance as between Houston and San Antonio, or Newark and Washington DC. The HNL-KOA rates are right in there for the same type of distance flown anywhere in the United States. It’s a fair market value ticket price. Get over it.
This, unless you’re saying the rate should be 50% less just because it’s Hawaii. Come on, you’re on a roll, keep spewing.
Your hate and contempt has blinded you. You do realize that most of your fellow coworkers are employed at HAL now. Your vile post is basically hoping that all of your fellow former coworkers are condemned to being unemployed. Now, please understand that almost half of this pilot group was not on property when that mixup happened.
Your blind hate and contempt is really directed at the wrong people here. It was Mesa that did you guys in, not HAL. Wow...