First Aloha Airlines, now ATA. This has been a bad week for anyone associated with airlines in Hawaii.
In an odd sort of way, it didn’t come as much of a surprise when Aloha Airlines finally closed the doors, and parked the planes. The airline struggled for much of the past 20 years, and was involved in several near-death experiences in recent years.
What about ATA?
I flew back and forth from Hawaii to the mainland a few times on ATA, and I admit the experience was poor each time. All airline seats and services are not created equal. There is something to the saying that ‘you get what you pay for.’ I paid for a seat. That’s about all I got. A seat. A small seat. An unclean seat. And transportation from here to there.
Other than the timing, it did not come as a surprise that ATA went belly up. The surprise was two airlines serving Hawaii going belly up in the same week.
Local folks say that ‘death comes in threes.’ Who’s next?
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