Comments on: With Aloha Gone, Buy Inter-Island Tickets This Week or Consider Superferry http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/ A Travel Chronicle from Hawaii Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:36:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jeff http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-358 Jeff Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:49:56 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-358 Hi Mike. What a mess. Airline tickets bought with cash/check or through a travel agent (not with airline directly) leave you very vulnerable to these changes that are becoming all too common. I'd even suggest considering some minimal travel insurance for Hawaii travel. I did a post on that a couple of months ago. Go! (Mesa) has a mixed situation. They have money (even with their stock at $1.41), inasmuch as they own nearly 60 of their planes outright. So they could raise cash through a lease-back arrangement if necessary. However they have lots of problems (as I pointed out in my latest post), which "might" cause them to reconsider Hawaii. I wouldn't even be surprised to see someone else come in (take United for example) and push Go! back to the mainland. Their mainland regional services are their meat and potatoes if you will, not Hawaii. The good news I can offer is that I don't sense anything will happen with either Go! or any of the other carriers' service Hawaii in your travel timeframe. Let me know how your plans proceed or if I can be of any help. Best aloha, Jeff Hi Mike. What a mess. Airline tickets bought with cash/check or through a travel agent (not with airline directly) leave you very vulnerable to these changes that are becoming all too common.

I’d even suggest considering some minimal travel insurance for Hawaii travel. I did a post on that a couple of months ago.

Go! (Mesa) has a mixed situation. They have money (even with their stock at $1.41), inasmuch as they own nearly 60 of their planes outright. So they could raise cash through a lease-back arrangement if necessary.

However they have lots of problems (as I pointed out in my latest post), which “might” cause them to reconsider Hawaii. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see someone else come in (take United for example) and push Go! back to the mainland. Their mainland regional services are their meat and potatoes if you will, not Hawaii.

The good news I can offer is that I don’t sense anything will happen with either Go! or any of the other carriers’ service Hawaii in your travel timeframe.

Let me know how your plans proceed or if I can be of any help.

Best aloha,
Jeff

]]> By: Mike http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-357 Mike Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:27:04 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-357 I really Hope that Go! airlines sticks around- We purchased a "dream" trip to Hawaii this June for my wife and I to celebrate our 30th anniversary( we never had a honeymoon) and we decided to bring my parents to Hawaii with us to celebrate their 56th ( they have always wanted to see Hawaii) and all of our travel arraingements were purchased on- you guessed it- Aloha and ATA on monday our inter island flights went under with Aloha- we rebooked immediately with Go! and 48 hrs later ATA folds up- now we are on inter island flights but stuck on the mainland until we find resources to buy new tickets to hawaii- we are out $4,000 in cash we used to purchase the first airfare and may not be able to get new tickets to the Islands- what a nightmare of a dream trip - and we haven't even left home yet!! I really Hope that Go! airlines sticks around- We purchased a “dream” trip to Hawaii this June for my wife and I to celebrate our 30th anniversary( we never had a honeymoon) and we decided to bring my parents to Hawaii with us to celebrate their 56th ( they have always wanted to see Hawaii) and all of our travel arraingements were purchased on- you guessed it- Aloha and ATA on monday our inter island flights went under with Aloha- we rebooked immediately with Go! and 48 hrs later ATA folds up- now we are on inter island flights but stuck on the mainland until we find resources to buy new tickets to hawaii- we are out $4,000 in cash we used to purchase the first airfare and may not be able to get new tickets to the Islands- what a nightmare of a dream trip - and we haven’t even left home yet!!

]]> By: Jeff http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-331 Jeff Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:12:36 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-331 Thanks David. The "loose" Kauai reference is as you indicate, indeed there, although, virtually all other prior mention of Kauai is gone. I concur that if HSF can't do anything now, they will be toast. Frankly, I wonder if they even intend to stay. Jeff Thanks David. The “loose” Kauai reference is as you indicate, indeed there, although, virtually all other prior mention of Kauai is gone.

I concur that if HSF can’t do anything now, they will be toast. Frankly, I wonder if they even intend to stay.

Jeff

]]> By: David http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-330 David Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:06:23 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/with-aloha-gone-buy-inter-island-tickets-this-week-or-consider-superferry/#comment-330 A minor correction, Superferry still refers to Kauai on their website. http://www.hawaiisuperferry.com/reservations/routes-schedules/default.html?src=main-menu Pardon the pun, but it's sink or swim time for Superferry. With a few months of good weather ahead and the prospect of higher inter island airfares, if they can't make it now they never will. David A minor correction, Superferry still refers to Kauai on their website.

http://www.hawaiisuperferry.com/reservations/routes-schedules/default.html?src=main-menu

Pardon the pun, but it’s sink or swim time for Superferry. With a few months of good weather ahead and the prospect of higher inter island airfares, if they can’t make it now they never will.

David

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