Originally Posted by
Akamai
Aloha stopped flying Ng’s interisland, and ended up only using them on mainland routes because of engine issues.
I don’t believe AQ ever flew NGs interisland regularly. NGs were operated on ETOPS flights starting in 2000. I checked so online anlurces and no mention of NG interisland flying.
Having said that, you could set up the -200 steam gauges for the next leg while taxiing in to the gate and those JT8Ds started up in about 10 seconds. I imagine the DC9 was the same way on the HAL side.