dash8driver
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island air is getting 5 more dash 8s, they will be doubling the size of their pilot pool to ~100 pilots. they will be competing directly with aloha on some routes. the transaction is completed on march 1st pending approval of the powers that watch over this kind of stuff.
it was sold to the son of the guy who owns the leasing company that leases island air their planes, Willis Leasing.
this sale is good for the WP (island air) pilots, but it opens a can of worms for what will/can happen with the inter-island market, aloha, and hawaiian. with hawaiian airlines in BK, its extra competition they dont need when they are barely breathing, for aloha it could be signalling a lot of possible changes for what may come. some of these possibilities are huge and drastic, while others arent so much.
topdawg is correct that there's no flow through....officially. there has always been an unoffical flow through, aloha has an unofficial preferred hiring policy for WP pilots. in the past they have taken so many WP pilots that WP had to cancel flights because of a sudden shortage of pilots. aloha still unofficially allocates up to about 4 slots per class for island air pilots, which is great for them, especially in a market with so many over qualified pilots looking for jobs.
its too early to tell how things will pan out. the sale and the statements that the aloha ceo has made are very odd. i dont think we are done seeing strange things happening here in hawaii. fasten your seatbelts and stand by for some interesting times.
it was sold to the son of the guy who owns the leasing company that leases island air their planes, Willis Leasing.
this sale is good for the WP (island air) pilots, but it opens a can of worms for what will/can happen with the inter-island market, aloha, and hawaiian. with hawaiian airlines in BK, its extra competition they dont need when they are barely breathing, for aloha it could be signalling a lot of possible changes for what may come. some of these possibilities are huge and drastic, while others arent so much.
topdawg is correct that there's no flow through....officially. there has always been an unoffical flow through, aloha has an unofficial preferred hiring policy for WP pilots. in the past they have taken so many WP pilots that WP had to cancel flights because of a sudden shortage of pilots. aloha still unofficially allocates up to about 4 slots per class for island air pilots, which is great for them, especially in a market with so many over qualified pilots looking for jobs.
its too early to tell how things will pan out. the sale and the statements that the aloha ceo has made are very odd. i dont think we are done seeing strange things happening here in hawaii. fasten your seatbelts and stand by for some interesting times.