$5M allocated to hire outgoing charter flights
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Looking to help roughly 9,000 ATA Airlines passengers stranded in Hawai'i by the carrier's sudden shutdown, the Hawai'i Tourism Authority yesterday approved $5 million in emergency funding to help hire charter flights to get people home.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually,
run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
9,000? How did they all get there on ATA? People taking 2 month vacations?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
It's possible, figure the average vacation time is 7 days.Originally Posted by GothamSpotter
Aloha shut down on 30-March, ATA shut down on 02-April, that is a lot of people that potentially came to Hawaii. Not sure if any cruise ships ended in Hawaii, but, that could be additional people.
Of course the 9,000 is assuming that nobody was able to find alternative means of travel off of Hawaii, but, the Hawaii loads are normally high, so getting a large amount of people off the islands by going standby, well, that is rather challenging.
For a short period of time, extra lift will be required......
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually,
run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
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