Aloha Airlines completed its last flight On Monday (March 31) after 61 years of operation. Officials from the airlines say they simply ran out of time to find a qualified buyer or to get more $$ to keep operating. They blamed "unfair competition" from Mesa Air Group's go! airline that started operations in Hawaii in 2006 and offerred inter-island fares as low as $19 each way. Yay capitalism.
The last flight, as I'm sure was planned, was from Kahului with Aloha's most senior pilot and most junior pilot at the controls.
The airline's worst accident occurred in 1988, when a part of the fuselage ripped away in flight. See Hollywood's best reenactment of said incident below. Love the acting.
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