Mesa News?
07-17-2011, 03:15 AM
#61
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Originally Posted by DeadStick
[RUMOR]
The latest in Hawaii is that go! will be winding down in ~90 days (in fact sources at Hawaiian say they have it on "good authority" (don't know how they know)). Apparently DB will be coming out to the islands soon, possibly to break the news...
[/RUMOR]
The latest in Hawaii is that go! will be winding down in ~90 days (in fact sources at Hawaiian say they have it on "good authority" (don't know how they know)). Apparently DB will be coming out to the islands soon, possibly to break the news...
[/RUMOR]
07-17-2011, 06:59 PM
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There are 21 CA’s and 14 FO’s based in HI, and I think 6 airplanes, with a spare now and then. If that operation were to be shuttered tomorrow, aside from the loss of jobs on the ground / ops side, not that they were lucrative anyway, but still jobs, it would be a hiccup. And those pilots and FA’s would be quickly absorbed into the rest of the system. What they would do with those extra CRJ’s is anybody’s guess. [Insert half baked, marginally in the know hypothesis here]. From the rest of the company’s perspective, or just mine, it would be a sigh of relief as it seems to be a distraction from the day-to-day affairs of mismanaging the place.
What I can say, is that for the last couple years “they” have been predicting the eminent closure of GO! regularly. Maybe someday it will close, and the most recent person on the forum to have said so can say, “told ja so!”
What I can say, is that for the last couple years “they” have been predicting the eminent closure of GO! regularly. Maybe someday it will close, and the most recent person on the forum to have said so can say, “told ja so!”
07-18-2011, 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted by fxn2fly
Rumor has it that no one wanted Go! in BK court because it was not a asset..
07-18-2011, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by proletariatav8r
There are 21 CA’s and 14 FO’s based in HI, and I think 6 airplanes, with a spare now and then. If that operation were to be shuttered tomorrow, aside from the loss of jobs on the ground / ops side, not that they were lucrative anyway, but still jobs, it would be a hiccup. And those pilots and FA’s would be quickly absorbed into the rest of the system. What they would do with those extra CRJ’s is anybody’s guess. [Insert half baked, marginally in the know hypothesis here]. From the rest of the company’s perspective, or just mine, it would be a sigh of relief as it seems to be a distraction from the day-to-day affairs of mismanaging the place.
What I can say, is that for the last couple years “they” have been predicting the eminent closure of GO! regularly. Maybe someday it will close, and the most recent person on the forum to have said so can say, “told ja so!”
What I can say, is that for the last couple years “they” have been predicting the eminent closure of GO! regularly. Maybe someday it will close, and the most recent person on the forum to have said so can say, “told ja so!”
07-19-2011, 08:47 AM
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Yea, after I posted I spoke with a friend who clarified the airplanes there. fxn2fly, you think they'll every consolidate to just a HNL base? I hear the schedules are getting a little better again too?
07-19-2011, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by proletariatav8r
Yea, after I posted I spoke with a friend who clarified the airplanes there. fxn2fly, you think they'll every consolidate to just a HNL base? I hear the schedules are getting a little better again too?
07-19-2011, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by fxn2fly
They broke the golden rule set down in Hawaii decades ago with their city slicker / mainland ways. NEVER SOUR THE LOCALS!! Aloha Airlines locals fly Hawaiian. You can get new planes. You can change your name. You can give away free tickets. Eh locals fly local.. Why have a base only 100 miles from the main base? Yes Kahului base will close.
I've been hearing about this "aloha spirit" for quite a while now and after almost a year here I'm still a bit miffed. The majority of locals I run into seem to love Go!; just as a person might still shop at walmart even though they put their uncle’s bait shop out of business. I find it very hard to believe that Hawaiians are in any way more conscientious consumers than the rest of the country. Go's performance has more to do with mismanagement, MX, customer service, uncomfortable airplanes, etc...
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