Mesa's GO! could be the new "Aloha" Airlines....article

[SFR]

This is the business, deal with it. Loyalty goes nowhere.

When times are good at your company you better be preparing for the bad times.

I feel no sympathy to the folks that spend all their money as soon as they get a raise.

B Smart

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

Scumbags!!!

Ornstein can't build a real airline, so he puts one out of business, then settles to buy the name.

What a kick in the Jimmy to all the good folks who flew there. Good luck to all who lost their jobs...

 

[QCappy]

If it creates pilot jobs it is good news - too many people on the street right now

It will create no jobs. The GO airplanes will be repainted. That's it.

 

[Dan Roman]

It's sad, but ill will doesn't count for crap if they offer seats for $5 less than the competition. In my view, the people of Hawaii were willing participants in AQ's demise. It's not like those turds (Go) had any codeshare - it was all point-to-point. Having grown up there and been fed crap like homegrown loyalty, kokua, "Aloha Spirit" or "Hawaiian Pride", I'm more than a little bitter.

You've got a point, but I think there is a very large percentage of the population that will always be VERY bitter towards Mesa/Aloha. When it was Hawaiian and Aloha over here there were two good airlines competing and both had their share of loyal customers. But Mesa/Aloha has to compete in a market that will mostly resent them.
I think you would be surprised how widespread the resentment towards Mesa is over here. Yes some people will forget, but a LOT won't.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Is this why there was an EMB 195 in PHX this week at the old customs hanger?