New Hawaiian Airline to Launch
September 23 2005 08:11 am
The Mesa Air group (a company that operates regional carriers) is planning to launch a new airline flying between the Hawaiian islands sometime in 2006 to compete with Hawaiian and Aloha. No word on the name of the carrier, but this is good news for travelers, as I’d expect fares between the islands to drop.
hawaii-5-joe on 23 Sep 2005 at 3:13 pm #
I expect what will happen is hawaiian and aloha will start a nice fare war until the new entrant is driven out of business, then put fares back where they started
Just like the last couple of times someone started an alternative airline there.
I love a duopoly, don’t you?
That said, I hope they call it something very local, like Howzit Airlinez.
tim K on 05 Oct 2005 at 3:33 pm #
Howzit airlines is a good name.
Sounds like Mesa has a pretty boneheaded strategist though- the market is not large enough.
As a customer of both Hawaiian and Aloha- it would be almost too predictable- the locals unsure of what is going on will just get confused and by the way it is only the tourists who pay the bills for these airlines- and they will not get the benefits of a price war.