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Actual Press release for Republic E170s at Mokulele

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Also, Mokulele won't fly the 170, that is a regional job for RAH pilots, the mainline pilots will stay on the Caravan for Mokulele.

In any other day and age, that would be a very strange statement.
 
We will now see a fare war. This is going to be the classic three way Mexican standoff. Go! lowers fares, Hawaiian matches and if Moklele doesn't, it's on the hook for millions to Republic via their CPA.

This amidst a 17 percent drop in tourism and Jet A is still high in Hawaii. Island Air will down size again and Hawaiian will hold on to its code shares with virtually everyone. Had Mokulele come in after Aloha shut down, they might have made an impact, but IMHO, it's too late. We will now see how deep the losses can go.

Oh yeah, there will be at least two lawsuits over this. It's going to be a great time to travel inter-island.
 
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So far the pilot bids are filled for the HNL base. They will have to hire FA's locally as not enough bid for it.
 
how are you all going to afford to live there for you crew members its easy to commute from the island but for the others wont be so easy Im not sure as far as MX folks go whos going to sign up for that and when you are dumped no ones talked about how they are getting their stuff back to the states> No thanks
 
How many of the 150 are really going to take a job to commute to the islands? If it's run like the normal interisland ops, there won't be any hotels, just back to base each night which makes it expensive unless you live local. I bet they have to hire, maybe they can get some of the Go pilots once that operation finally ceases.

You might be surprised, the bid went fairly senior. Alot of people wanted to go there.
 
No guarantee of a flow up....

A lot of these guys have egos. They want to fly for a true mainline.

Word in the islands is that there is no guaranteed flow up from Mokulele express (rah) to the mainline (mokulele) so unless your already on the mainline caravan, you'll have to apply to Mokulele mainline like everyone else, sorry RAH.

Actually, what's the pay rate on RAH E170 captain vs Mainline Mokulele Caravan FO? This might be a case where the regional pilots are making more than the mainline that they will be expressing for!
 

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