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Southwest Airlines Finally Gets FAA Approval to Fly to Hawaii
Southwest Airlines is finally on its way to Hawaii. The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday approved the low-cost carrier to fly to the islands from the West Coast, Southwest said. The airline, which will service Hawaii from several cities in California, will announce when it will start selling tickets to the popular vacation destination in the coming days, it said in a statement. (www.cnbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wonder how Herb was with mechanic relations? Is it true that they are looking to outsource maintenance?
The most significant part of this article, to me, is "The airline also intends to offer service between the islands."
This is HUGE. I lived in Hawaii for several years flying the P-3. Hawaii's interisland transportation culture is so entrenched that outside companies have an enormous hurdle getting past the, shall we say, legislative persuasion that companies like HAL, Young Brothers Shipping and Matson have. Google "Hawaii Superferry". This was a company with 2 massive catamarans with Roll on Roll Off capabilities for cars. They were hugely successful and wildly popular at first...then the old school Hawaii Mafia made sure they went out of business. Suddenly they were required to completed multiple, burdensome and expensive Environmental Impact Surveys....even though they already did.
Suddenly surfers were concerned about whales and marine life...so they were paid to paddle out into the harbor in Maui and Honolulu to prevent the Superferry ships from docking. It's an embarrassment to the state of Hawaii that there is no ferry boat system between the island. It's the only populated group of islands in the world were there is no regular RORO/ferry system between its cities.
Watch what happens when SW pursues inter island flying...the entrenched companies are going to pull every trick in the book to prevent that. One of the busiest air routes in the world is Honolulu/Maui. BUT...if anyone can make it happen, it's SW. Enter new markets, disrupt them and grow is their MO. Good luck to them!
This is HUGE. I lived in Hawaii for several years flying the P-3. Hawaii's interisland transportation culture is so entrenched that outside companies have an enormous hurdle getting past the, shall we say, legislative persuasion that companies like HAL, Young Brothers Shipping and Matson have. Google "Hawaii Superferry". This was a company with 2 massive catamarans with Roll on Roll Off capabilities for cars. They were hugely successful and wildly popular at first...then the old school Hawaii Mafia made sure they went out of business. Suddenly they were required to completed multiple, burdensome and expensive Environmental Impact Surveys....even though they already did.
Suddenly surfers were concerned about whales and marine life...so they were paid to paddle out into the harbor in Maui and Honolulu to prevent the Superferry ships from docking. It's an embarrassment to the state of Hawaii that there is no ferry boat system between the island. It's the only populated group of islands in the world were there is no regular RORO/ferry system between its cities.
Watch what happens when SW pursues inter island flying...the entrenched companies are going to pull every trick in the book to prevent that. One of the busiest air routes in the world is Honolulu/Maui. BUT...if anyone can make it happen, it's SW. Enter new markets, disrupt them and grow is their MO. Good luck to them!
The line of political and business corruption is long, wide and very deep; at least is was in the early 1970's!
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it's really fun reading flightaware articles.
clicking on the links.
knowing that every article is behind a firewall, or other data harvesting system.
yeah, i know, if i don't like it i can go somewhere else, or some other libertarian cry baby whiny arse response.
it's really fun reading flightaware articles.
clicking on the links.
knowing that every article is behind a firewall, or other data harvesting system.
yeah, i know, if i don't like it i can go somewhere else, or some other libertarian cry baby whiny arse response.
They want to outsource their maintenance to Mexico and have refused to give their mechanics a decent contract for SIX YEARS. Not a good time to be firing up a maintenance intensive ETOPS program.
I think it was 2009 when SWA began sending some aircraft to El Salvador for maintenance. I'm not sure of that's still going on.