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Passengers Feel The Merger Pains Between go! and Mokulele In Hawaii

There’s trouble in paradise now that go! and Mokulele Airlines have merged. Within the last couple of weeks the two airlines have shacked up in hopes of doing some damage to the market share owned by Hawaiian Airlines. The new combined airline aims at bringing low cost cutthroat interisland fares for tourists and locals looking to hop islands for different adventures or just to get to work. Well, things have been a little bumpy as the new combined service tries to work out all the kinks quickly.

The combined effort go! Mokulele reported a lot of minor delays, and most of them were related to passengers that they couldn’t talk to about schedule changes. There were a couple travelers that complained about waiting a couple hours to take-off even though they spoke with the airline regarding schedule changes. Apparently the law says until a merger is complete, you can’t share passenger information. So they only had a few days to cut and paste all those new reservations into the new systems. It didn’t help much that the combined airline now only uses go! planes, as the old Mokulele jets aren’t going to be used in the islands.

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Hawaii Interisland Fare Wars: Molokai Game On

Upstart interisland carrier Go! has been tossing coconuts through plane windows for quite a bit now with fares ranging below $10 for one-way passage between Maui, Oahu, Kauai or the Big Island. The island of Molokai, however, had remained untouched by the wonderful bloodbath that has delighted both locals and visitors bent on island-hoping.

Fares to Molokai have remained more expensive. But in late July, Go! announced it would start service to Molokai with its prop-plane cohort a Mokulele Airlines. That's gotta be good news, since Molokai has no non-stop flights from the U.S. mainland and can only be reached via ferry from Maui or via air.

Granted, Molokai is off the beaten path and probably not of interest to most Hawaii visitors. It has no luxury hotels, no real nightlife or top-notch restaurants, and much of the island is inaccessible. It's more of a drop-out, slow-down, back-to-the-land type destination. But hey, plenty of folks dig that and as for more planes flying, mo bettah, I say!

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[Photo: Molokai Island]