Aloha Airlines closed down. ATA Airlines closed down. Now, Aloha Airlines Cargo closed down. The cargo group has had 85-percent of the island’s air cargo and ends up worth nothing to anyone except customers, and a few remaining employees.
How bad was the management at Aloha?
Most of what Hawaii needs in goods is imported, and most of that comes by container ship. The rest arrives via air cargo, and Aloha Airlines Cargo had the larger-than-lions share of that business.
What happened?
Whatever it was it doesn’t matter much to Matson or Hawaiian Air or United or Delta who will swoop in to pick up the pieces of air cargo to and between the islands.
Aloha Airlines was so well run it ended up being worth next to nothing by everyone except customers and employees. If creditors don’t think much of your business it doesn’t matter what customers and employees think.
The only poetic justice in the whole Aloha Airlines mess is that the executives who flew the airline into the ground are also unemployed.
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Back when Hawaiian Air was on strike, United picked up the pineapple cargo contract and started bumping passengers for PINEAPPLES! I was one of those passengers! Now you have to book WAY ahead to get to Maui! Bring back Pan Am!
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