Aloha Airlines Ends Passenger Service - Bankrupt

[Airline News]

Aloha is going away. The inter-island and island-to-mainland airline says it will stop honoring tickets and carrying passengers after 31 March 2008.

Indirectly blaming the start-up inter-island service Go! started by Mesa Group, the carrier was also done-in by high fuel prices.

Aloha Airlines had operated in Hawaii for more than 60 years and was somewhat notorious for the single fatality accident of its 737 operating as Aloha Flight 243 where corrosion led to a crack which led to most of the roof or cabin top departing the aircraft during an inter-island flight.

That event led to new thinking about aging aircraft inspections and at least in part the regulations that Southwest Airlines is alleged to have violated recently.

Another sad milestone in the airline industry.