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The History
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Reviews and News Stories of Book "Substance, not style, helps 'Wings' soar" "A gotta-have for airplane buffs." New Features: Interisland Air War!Here's a unique perspective on the competition between Hawaiian, Aloha, and go! Forman's Air War BlogUpdated April 6, 2008 |
Links to Hawaii-based Airlines Inter-Island Jet Service: Inter-Island Service with Propeller aircraft: On-Demand Flights
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Wings of Paradise, Hawaii's Incomparable Airlines- Begun 20 years ago, this 400 page hard-bound history tells the true story of Hawaii's amazing airlines from the preparations for air service in 1929 up through the bankruptcy travails of 2005.
Continued Coverage of the Story:
Contact author/publisher Peter Forman at: pf1@airlinesofhawaii.com Retail price is $29.95. |
In the News Go!
Airline Reports Another Loss: $8.3M Aloha
CEO Still Hoping Airline May Come Back The
Upcoming Interisland Airline Race Sky
Wars Aloha's
Lender Unable to Add Risk Employees
Still in Shock over Shutdown Aloha
Means Goodbye Aloha
Air Shuts Down Lawmakers
Step In to Help Aloha Lawmakers
Consider Bailing Out Aloha Air Island
Air Bids to Fly in Midwest Senators
Explore Ways to Help Aloha in Bankruptcy Aloha
Air Hunting for Buyers Aloha
Air Bankrupt Aloha
Airlines Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Go! United,
Continental Hike Airfares Up to $50 Hawaiian
and Aloha Remain in Top Spots for Punctuality Hawaiian
Air Soars Above Analysts' Negative Forecasts FAA
Wants to Know if Go! Pilots Fell Asleep FAA
Investigates Whether Go! Flight Crew Fell Asleep Go!
Reconsiders Larger Planes go!
Losses Triple Last 3 Months of 2007 Isle
Airlines Top On-Time Ranks Hawaiian
Air #1 in Punctuality for 4th Straight Year Hawaiian
Airlines Complete $4.4B Deal for 24 Airbus Jets Superferry
Toughing Out Winter Weather Repair
Work Cancels Today's Superferry Sailings $29
Tickets Renew Airfare Battle Arthur
Lewis, Hawaiian Chief, Mid Pac Co-founder Hawaiian
May Cancel Airbus Order Aloha
Raises Airfare to Big Isle Hawaii
Interisland Airline Go! Lost $20 Million $68.2M
Loss for Mesa Air go!
Planes 65.8% Full Last Month Judge
Rejects New Trial for Mesa Mesa
Extends Contracts of 3 Execs Hawaii
Superferry Service to Maui Resumes Dec. 1 Go!
Parent Faces Bond 'In Vicinity' of $98M Mesa Fires Disgraced CFO Murnane Mesa
to pay $80 Million We're
Unlike Previous Airline Competitors Working
with Folks who Love Hawaii Mesa
Disputes $173 Million Claim Hawaii
Rival Airlines Wrapping Up Trial Mesa
Starts Regional Flights in China Trial
Reveals Mesa Plot for Fares Hawaiian
Air Says go! Meant to Oust Aloha Haweaiian
to Raise Fares if Mesa Leaves Market Aloha
Opens New California Routes Hawaiian
CEO: If go! Leaves, Airfares Go Up Consultant
Reaches Deal with Hawaiian Mesa
Stock Dives after Hawaii Court Ruling Mesa
Came to Isles Via Hawaiian's Data Judge
Says Hawaiian Air Rival Misused Data Go!
Exec Defends Action in Lawsuit Mesa
Denies Trying to Kill Off Hawaii Airline Mesa
Blames Exec's Porn Purge for Deletion of Data Sought in Suit Mesa
Says Key Hawaii Files Deleted in Purge Hawaiian
and Mesa Vie for Skies in Court Mesa
CFO Place on Leave Criminal
Defense Lawyer to Represent Mesa CFO Aloha
Airlines Flies into Steep 2nd-Q Loss Hawaii
Airline Accuses Rival's Consultant Hawaiian
Air Adds Philippines Route July
Strong Month for Hawaii Airlines Hawaiian
Airlines Narrows Net Loss Airline
Suit Headed for Trial Interisland
Fare War Flares Go!
Posts Increase in June Passengers Aloha
Finalizes Expanded Deal with United Judge
Dismisses Mesa Lawsuit Against Pilot Aloha
Pilots Asks Court to Dismiss Mesa Lawsuit Fare
War Rekindles with $19 Tickets Delayed? Best to be on Aloha, Hawaiian $1
Flights Too Much for go! Site Dollar
Flights Flood, Crash Web Site One
Year Flying Hawaii (Go!) Fare War 'Can Easily Go' Second Year Alaska
Airlines to offer Honolulu-Seattle Flights Interisland
Fare War Ascends to New Level Hawaiian Airlines to Lay Off 98 Workers Mesa
Air Group Posts $24M Loss Aloha's
Losses Widen Aviation Pioneer Benefited Plantations United
Takes Stake in Aloha Airlines United
Takes Minority Stake in Aloha Mokulele
Airlines Fleet Gets Boost from Investor Flights 64% Full, Says go! Airline Hawaiian
Load Factor 91% Pacific
Wings to Double Molokai Flights Airline
Pioneer Helped Hawaii Tourism Soar Mesa
Will No Longer Go to Lake Havasu Hawaiian
Named No. 1 in Airline Quality Airline
Halting Molokai Flights over FAA Dispute Airline
Closure Hurts Visitors from Canada Hawaiian
Air's Passenger Yield Falls Mesa
Loses: Dismissal of Aloha Suit Rejected Interisland
Fare War Widens Go! Sets off New Round of $19 Fares Pacific
Wings Wrestles Away Mainland Contract from Mesa New Study Will Not Delay Superferry Aloha
Air Back to Trying Harder Opponents
Attempt To Stop Superferry Mesa
Sues Aloha Airlines Pilot January
Weakest Month for go! Flights Fewer Fly go! in January Hawaiian
Adds Seattle, Samoa Flights Hawaiian
Air Cuts Quarterly Loss Pacific
Wings Takes Air War to Mesa's Home Turf Go! Touches Off New $29 Fare Isle
Airlines Lead Nation in On-time Performance Mokulele's goExpress! Fleet Taking Shape Profits
Plunge at go! Parent Mesa Pacific
Wings Joins Airlines Offering $29 Fare Pacific
Wings Launches Discount Division Pacific
Wings Bids for Mainland Route Go! Says Planes Two-thirds Full Aloha
Takes Fight to Federal Court Aloha Breaks Hawaiian's String as Best On-Time Airlines Mesa
Sees Huge Potential in China Mesa
to Fly in China Below-Cost Fares Puzzle Aloha Airlines CEO Aloha Takes $10.6M Hit for the 3rd Quarter Hawaiian In Talks to Outsource some Jobs Go! Sets Yuletide Airfares at $25 Island Air Cuts Ticket Prices Bock:
More than Fare War to Blame for Island Air Layoffs Island
Air Faults Go! For Layoffs, Route Cuts Island Air Says go! to Blame for Layoffs Mesa
Pilots Seek to Enforce Award Interisland
Fare War Quietly Resumes Mesa Air Launches Controvery
in Hawaii Mesa Air Net Income Plunges 68% Go! Vows to Keep $39 One-Way Fare Airline CEO Ornstein Makes Many See Red Airline
"Heros" Fail in Skirmish with Go! Go!
Chief Receives Offensive T-shirt ALPA
Slams Mesa Air Fare
War Rekindles Again Go! Airlines Sets Off $29 Price War Again October Slower Month for go! Airline Hawaiian
Airlines Maintains Profits Hawaiian,
Aloha Top Air Performance Again 11/2/06- Honolulu Advertiser Island
Air May Expand to Vegas Hawaiian
Wants Last Antitrust Allegation Thrown Out More
Passengers, More Losses Go!
Airline Owner Sued Over Secrecy Violations Aloha Airlines Lawsuit Calls go! 'Unfair' Aloha
Airlines Sues Mesa Air Group New
Carrier Go! Fills Two-thirds of its Seats Mesa
load factor 72%; go! flies 66% full Is the Sky the Limit? Go! Avoids 1-Year Grounding Ornstein
Says Rivals' Problems Not His Fault Island Air Puts Hold on Expansion $19
Fares Give Go! Record Sales Mesa
Denies Trying to Fell Rival Airline
Says Go! Taking Revenge for Criticism $19
Fare War Resumes, Intensifies $19
Airfare Lower than Cab Ride Mesa
Accused of Conspiring to Oust Aloha from Isle Market Isle
Air Wars Intensify Competing
with go! -- This Time, It's Personnel Aloha
Air Posts Smaller Loss Aloha
Air Narrows Its Net Loss in Quarter More Competition, Fuel Costs Said to be Cause of Earnings Reversal Go!
Reports It Filled Fewer Seats in August Start-up Suffers Drop in Ridership $29 Fare Returns in Latest Price War Aloha Air Names Bethune as Chairman Island
Air will start flying Kona-Lihue Aloha
Airlines Pilots Comment on Pension Issue Go!
to Pay $20,000 Over Use of Name Pension
Issue Hits Home with Pilot of Ill-fated Aloha Flight 243 Pension
Agency Meets with Aloha Employees go!--
Emptier Planes, New Fare Offer Got $29? Airlines Prolong Fare War Hawaiian
Posts an Operating Profit Hawaiian Air Can't Be Denied, FAA Says Hawaiian Air, Union Agree Diverse
Style Fills Aloha Airlines' History Interisland
Carrier go! Announces $29 Fare Samoan Governor Orders Hawaiian Airlines Out After
a Month, Airline $1M in Hole Lower
Earnings for Mesa Air New
Carrier go! Losing About $300 a Flight Lower
Earnings for Mesa Air Judge
Delays Hawaiian Air Suit Against Mesa Aloha's
CEO Weighs In Interisland
Fares Below Short Mainland Routes Airline Fare War Filling Isle Skies Local
Airline Battle Flares Anew Hawaiian,
Aloha Fly Ontime the Most Hawaiian
May Sue Former Consultant Over Secrets Aloha
to Fly Maui-Kona, Maui-Lihue Hawaiian
Trying to Stop go! Hawaiian
Seeks Injunction Against Mesa It's
Time to go! Three-way
'Shootout' Seen in Airline Battle Mesa's
Ornstein Is Confident As Ever Aloha Givewaway Finds Fast Takers Mesa
Air Group's go! airline joins Hawaii's interisland market today $19? Hah! Aloha Says You'll Fly Free To
Boldly go! New
$19 Interisland Fare Called Goofy The Sound of Interisle Air Competition Starting: "Go!" Hawaiian Air Maintains Lead Two
Sentenced to Prison Over Failed Airline Plan Mesa
Loses Bid to Move Venue of Lawsuit Aloha
Air Posts Loss of More Than $1M Aloha Joins Hawaiian in Offering $59 Airfare Mesa
Air Leads New Round of Fare Cuts Catching
Some (Island) Air Fuel
Costs Offset Hawaiian Air Revenue Gains Carrier (HA) Expands West Coast Service $39
Interisland Fare War Will Last Another Week Interisland
Carriers Extend Fare Sale for 2 More Weeks State
Reverses Controversial Gate Decision Mesa's
Gate Switch Puzzles State and Airlines Superferry Company Called Unresponsive, May
Lose $10 Million from State Planes
Used by Mesa Air Target of Fire Warning Hawaiian to Add Evening Flights New
Airline Go! Takes Off in June Mesa's Airline to Begin Flying June 9 Airlines offer $39 Fares Hawaiian Holdings' Losses Grow Despite Higher
Revenue Island Air Makeover Under Way Aloha
Upgrades Fleet, Schedule Mesa
Air Countersues Hawaiian Air Stranded
Travlers Get Break on Air Fees Hawaiian,
Aloha Airlines Deserve Residents' Support Aloha
CEO 'Visualiezed" Exit from Bankruptcy Bills
Give Isle Airlines $30M Break Island
Air Starts Jet Charter Service Aloha's
Pension Dealings Probed Mokulele
to Fly to Honolulu New
Airline Go Hawaii Preparing to Launch Aloha
Airlines Preparing to Depart Bankruptcy After
Rough Flight, CEO is Staying Aloha
Airlines Looks Ahead Mesa
Air Calls Hawaiian Air Afraid of Competition Hawaiian
to Buy Four Jets for $31.9M HAL
Sues New Competitor Island
Air Adds 2 InterIsland Routes Mesa
Airlines Ready to do Battle Pension
Agency Settles with Aloha Air Aloha
Airlines Achieves Deal to Ascend from Bankruptcy Aloha
Gains Minority Owners Aloha
posts $281,000 profit Aloha
Bankruptcy Tab at $11M Pacific
Wings calls TSA investigations 'retaliatory' Aloha
Airlines Clears Pension Hurdle Superferry
Buoyed by Founder's Drive Judge
Piloting Local Carriers Through Bankruptcy Nothing
Smooth on Seaflight Aloha
Airlines Cleared to Dump Pensions Ruling
On Pension Critical for Aloha Late
Appeal Imperils Aloha Bankruptcy Island
Air Becomes Independent Carrier Maui-San
Diego Flight Added (by Hawaiian) Bill's
Delay Leave Aloha Pilots in Limbo Aloha
Airlines Close to New Takeoff Aloha
Attendants Ratify; Pilots Make Progress Aloha
Air Readies Ch. 11 Exit Mesa's
Isle Move Part of Trend State
Forgives Aloha Tax Debt Airline's
Future Appears Uncertain Roberts
to Pay Aloha $500,000 to Settle Suit Judge
Implores Aloha Air and Pilots to Reach a Deal Aloha
Union: Another 'Sacrifice' No
One May Win Aloha Air Labor Dispute, Judge Says Judge
Likely To Delay Aloha Ruling Hawaiian
Airline's Parent Profits Aloha
Air Accused of Bad Faith Aloha
Just One of Many Opting Out of Pensions Creating
a Positive Experience for Air Travelers Interisland
Air Traffic Drops 26% in 4 Years No
Planes, No Space- Is Mesa for Real? Judge
Affirms Gotbaum Bonus ($250,000) Judge
Urges Aloha, Unions to Make Deal Airfare
Between Islands May Fall Aloha's
Unions Fight Back in Court Aloha's
Pension Cop-Out Outrages Workers Superferry
Secures $210 Million Investment Tensions
Rise at Aloha Air Ruling on bonus for Gotbaum not final Aloha
Can Send Plan to Creditors Investors
Decide Not to Back New Isle Airline Airline
President Requests Security
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