Orignal post from Airliners.net:
Hey out there, just heard a rumor that US Airways and Mesa/Go! were in talks about bringing in bigger aircraft to Hawaii for the inter island service. JO must be trying to compete with Mokulele's and Hawaiian aircraft
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US Airways has a contentious relationship with Mesa, at best. We have no codeshare now with them in the islands, so why would we be "working with them" to bring bigger aircraft to Hawaii?
I have often wondered, though, why we DON'T codeshare with Mesa (GO!) here in Hawaii??? It seems a natural with the extensive codeshare we have in Phoenix with them. Hawaiian handles our ground here, all of our outbound connections are always on Hawaiian and when we deadhead interisland it is ALWAYS on Hawaiian. Flying into LIH yesterday we had 20 outbound connections going to HNL on Hawaiian because both of our Honolulu flights were oversold out of Phoenix. This happens frequently and I never see pax with outbound cx on GO!.
Doesn't seem much of a stretch across the water for WN, as Alaska flys 737-800 to the islands. Their dedicated Hawaiian etops planes feature the Alaska "flight attendant" painted on the tail sporting a large pink lei. Cute!
Aloha from the island of Kaua'i.