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Re: Hawaii's Interisland Air War - Chapter 4
Great story in yesterdays PBN online about go! passengers count being down. Some how the load factors are up though. go! figure?
go! boarded 52,552 passengers last month, down from 61,634 for the same month in 2006. This is 9,082 less passengers or 303 a day less.
Revenue passenger miles were down as well, from 8.7 million to 7.49 million. Available seat miles dropped from 13.2 million to 11.2 million.
It is probably safe to say that Hawaii's traveling public are no longer being fooled by Mesa.
Even though Ornstein has elevated BS to an artform it still smelled a little too ripe for Hawaii's malihini and visitors alike.
I have said it before, the only type of customers go! can count on are the occasional random traveler lured by whatever means (legal or otherwise) Ornstein finds necessary. I also know for a fact that go! gives away hundreds, possibly thousands of tickets every month FOR FREE in a vain attempt to boost rapidly declining passenger loads.
Even the vocal minority of go! supporters like Mel and others are still flying on Hawaiian, Aloha and Island Air.
What a pitiful shame it had to end this way.
I would really like a legitimate third carrier to have been flying in Hawaii by now. Maybe James Delano is out there watching still. Could Fly Hawaii get its investors back once Mesa gets the axe?
Great story in yesterdays PBN online about go! passengers count being down. Some how the load factors are up though. go! figure?
go! boarded 52,552 passengers last month, down from 61,634 for the same month in 2006. This is 9,082 less passengers or 303 a day less.
Revenue passenger miles were down as well, from 8.7 million to 7.49 million. Available seat miles dropped from 13.2 million to 11.2 million.
It is probably safe to say that Hawaii's traveling public are no longer being fooled by Mesa.
Even though Ornstein has elevated BS to an artform it still smelled a little too ripe for Hawaii's malihini and visitors alike.
I have said it before, the only type of customers go! can count on are the occasional random traveler lured by whatever means (legal or otherwise) Ornstein finds necessary. I also know for a fact that go! gives away hundreds, possibly thousands of tickets every month FOR FREE in a vain attempt to boost rapidly declining passenger loads.
Even the vocal minority of go! supporters like Mel and others are still flying on Hawaiian, Aloha and Island Air.
What a pitiful shame it had to end this way.
I would really like a legitimate third carrier to have been flying in Hawaii by now. Maybe James Delano is out there watching still. Could Fly Hawaii get its investors back once Mesa gets the axe?
Changes at the Honoulu Airport with Aloha..
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