Aloha Airlines shutting down cargo division

[Midnight Mike]

Tue Apr 29, 2:25 AM ET
HONOLULU - Aloha Airlines shut down its cargo division Monday because its primary lender decided not to provide further financing.

Aloha carries 85 percent of the state's interisland air cargo, including all mail to and from Maui and the Big Island.

Airline attorneys say GMAC Commercial Finance's decision to stop financing Monday came after two companies interested in buying the cargo division pulled out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_ ... a_airlines (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_bi_ge/aloha_airlines)

[T-Bird76]

So who's going to move the mail now? Hawaiian? Do they have the interisland fleet to handle it? The 717s don't really hold all too much cargo and they don't have any dedicated cargo planes. Seems like a problem......

[Midnight Mike]

So who's going to move the mail now? Hawaiian? Do they have the interisland fleet to handle it? The 717s don't really hold all too much cargo and they don't have any dedicated cargo planes. Seems like a problem......

Good question, they can always hire airlines to move the cargo, maybe United can re-route some larger aircraft to help, or Hawaiian can use the 767.

It will increase cost, but, there are many options to move the cargo around, according to the article, it was profitable, so, somebody will figure a way to do it.

[Matt Molnar]

Not dead yet:


Seattle-based company to buy Aloha Airlines' cargo operation (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5747634.html)

HONOLULU — The parent company of Hawaii's biggest interisland ocean shipper announced Thursday it had worked out a deal to buy Aloha Airlines' cargo operation, which shut down Monday. [Full Article (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5747634.html)]