October was yet another great month for Hawaiian Airlines, the only true inter-Hawaiian airline with a traffic increase of 8.3% year over year.  The airlines load factor also rose 2.4 percentage points to a great 85.3%. 

But while Hawaiian was enjoying another month of recovery and great results, their only inter-island competitor now, Go!, a subsidiary of [...]

Mokulele, owned by Republic Airways and go!, owned by Mesa Airlines joined forces today to cooperate but operate both Hawaiian inter-island carriers as one entity, but under both brand names.  Some details of the deal are still uncertain, but the terms include Mesa owning 75% of the combined carrier and Republic owning 25%. 

This comes after go! [...]

Unfortunately, Delta Airlines today lost another court battle in its effort to rid itself of the embattled Mesa Airlines regional operation.  Mesa operates 50 seat Embraer ERJ-145’s for Delta on certain connection routes, and will be able to continue for the time being.

Back in early 2008, Delta attempted to cancel the regional flying contract it [...]