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07-26-2008 | 09:27 PM

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meeko031

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Originally Posted by BURflyer

There's a pt135 outfit that flys caravans, I think it's called pacific wings.

Pacific wings is a different company that flys caravans. Mokulele also flys caravan but was bought by mesa under go!

07-26-2008 | 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy

From what I hear, if you don't have the time to be hired into the left seat it's worse than Mesa or <gasp> CFIing. When you're not selling tickets and smashing bags you get to log all that VFR single-engine turbine SIC time. Woooooo...hoooooo. You get all that for $9/hr or something like that.

It's a good place to go if you washout of airline training anyways. No checkrides and like 5 days of ground school. That's how I found out about the place, my friend busted and soon after got a job at pac wings. Not great experience but it's still flight hours, they're still flying too, better then I'm doing...

07-30-2008 | 11:16 PM

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hi208

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Originally Posted by meeko031

Pacific wings is a different company that flys caravans. Mokulele also flys caravan but was bought by mesa under go!

Mokulele was never bought by Mesa they just have some type of code share!

07-31-2008 | 01:53 AM

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asj410

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Originally Posted by hi208

Mokulele was never bought by Mesa they just have some type of code share!

This is true. They just dumped all of their 402s (or whatever they were) and started picking up Caravans for the go! Express ops. The interesting thing about these birds is that they actually have video screens in them...one on each side on the bulkhead behind the cockpit. A friend of mine who used to fly there said they'd just pop in a surfing video or whatever they happened to have with them. Anything to help pass the time...those Caravans are SLOW!

On a side note, since Mesa is still bleeding money on go!, I have to wonder what Mokulele will do if Mesa decides to close up shop and leave Hawaii. They put all of their eggs in one basket when they shed all of their previous aircraft to operate exclusively as go! Express. They may need to hook up with Pac Wings if that ever happens!