Mesa Settles With Hawaiian

Mesa Air Group, go!'s parent comapny, has settled with Hawaiian Airlines, and removed its appeal over the $80M award to Hawaiian by the US Federal Court.

The Honolulu Advertiser's article link.

Kalitta Charters' N720CK

Kalitta Chaters II has brought in N720CK (c/n 21298), a 727-2B6F/Adv, to handle air cargo duties on behalf of Pacific Air Cargo.

N720CK had been here in 2005 for Pacific Air Cargo to do runs to/from PPG, but was short-lived. In the photo above, this 727 has a Pacific Air Cargo logo near the main entry door. It was originally delivered to Royal Air Maroc as CN-RMP.


Kitty Hawk Aircargo had done some inter-island cargo runs with 727-200Fs in the earlier part of the decade, but left after a brief run as they tried to compete against Aloha Airlines' cargo ops.

Aloha Cargo Shuts Down

This afternoon, Aloha announced that their cargo operations will be shutting down at the end of business today. The two bidders for the cargo division pulled out and the lender will not provided any more money.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/BREAKING03/80428053

http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/28/news/story09.html

Lion Air's PK-LFK

Lion Air International's newest 737-9GPER(W), PK-LFK (c/n 35713), made a tech stop at HNL, during its delivery flight to Indonesia.

Rick Schlamp's photo of PK-LFK at BFI.

Aloha Cargo

We caught this Aloha Cargo landing at HNL today around 7:14am with a pocket cam. They were also tugging N840AL around.

Air Nippon's JA18AN

Air Nippon is taking delivery of JA18AN (c/n 33885), a 737-781(W). It arrived today as ANK9984, and will depart for MAJ and GUM tomorrow.

Rick Schlamp got a shot of it at BFI.

Shanghai Airlines' B-5368

Shanghai Airlines is taking delivery of B-5368 (c/n 35273), a 737-8Q8(W), leased from ILFC. It arrived yesterday and is seen above departing from Runway 8R this morning for SPN as CSH368.

Royal Air Force's K1s

The UK's Royal Air Force K1 (L-1011-385 "TriStar 500") air re-fueling tankers have been using HNL as a stopover point during "Exercise Longlook", over the past few days.

Airliners.net photo link

Mokulele Airlines

This Grand Caravan with a new look was at Kahului today. Nose art features a Hawaiian flag with the name, "The Spirit of Maui." Mokulele now has 2 aircraft in company livery, and 3 in the Go! Express c/s. They expect to be operating a fleet of 10 208's by the end of the year.

JAL Express' JA311J

Taken Sat morning prior to departure as JAL7901 to MAJ and SPN.

Aloha ‘Oe "Mo‘ikeha"

"Mo‘ikeha", Aloha Airlines' N739AL (c/n 28500), a 737-73A(W), is getting ready to be ferried off to GYR like its sister-ship N738AL. It appears that "Mo‘ikeha"'s eyebrow windows have been covered, and have the "alohaairlines.com" titles painted on the inside of the winglets.

Hong Kong Express' B-KBQ

Hong Kong Express Airlines' B-KBQ (c/n 35274), a 737-84P(W) is on its way to Hong Kong from BFI. It stopped off at HNL last night, and left this morning. Unfortunately we just missed its departure ...

Here's a link to Rick Schlamp's photo of B-KBQ at BFI .

11th 737-800 for JAL

The eleventh 737-846(W) for JAL, JA311J (c/n 35340), arrived in HNL last night, April 11. This aircraft is wearing JAL Express titles. It is scheduled to leave for MAJ today, April 12. Sorry for the poor picture as I had to use the car to take a steady shot, but was parked too close to get the whole aircraft in the frame.

Aloha's 737-200s Are Saying Aloha

It now seems that the leased Aloha Airlines 737-200’s are now starting to be returned as two flights left Honolulu this morning. Winging their way east to Victorville California was N828AL Hoapili which departed HNL to VCV at 7:30 am followed by N837AL Kaumuali`i at 7:40 am.

Aloha Machines

Sad to see these aircraft parked in the middle of the field like this.

Another View Of UR-82027

Antonov Airlines' UR-82027

An Antonov Airlines An-124-100, UR-82027 (msn 19530502288/208), was in town today. Sorry, I do not have any inbound nor outbound flight info.

Aloha ‘Oe "Kuapaka‘a"

"Kuapaka‘a", Aloha Airlines' N738AL (c/n 28499), a 737-73A(W), was ferried to GYR (Phoenix Goodyear Airport, AZ) today by its lessor, the Wilmington Trust Company. It will be stored there for the time being. I guess it could be the same for the other 737-700Ws and 737-200s AQ had under lease.

N738AL was the first 737-700 delivered to AQ that kicked off their west coast service. It's seen above on the AirService Hawai‘i ramp being prepared for the non-stop flight to GYR (as N738AL) that would depart a few hours after I got this shot.

Garuda's PK-GHX

Garuda Indonesian Airlines is taking delivery of PK-GHX (c/n 26440), a 737-3L9. It's flying as GIA8011, and the flight originated from GYR (Phoenix Goodyear Airport, AZ) via LAX, HNL and MAJ to Indonesia.

PK-GHX was delivered to Maersk Denmark as OY-MRK in 1992, then onto Deutsche BA as D-ADBB a few months after delivery. It then went onto Frontier Airlines as N310FL from 1999 until 2004. After its time it was Frontier, it was taken up by Sundowner LLC.

It's seen here on a rainy HNL ramp a day after arriving from LAX. It's departure date is scheduled for tomorrow.

Aloha Airlines ... Mahalo Nui Loa!

Over the past couple of years, I was privileged to be invited to Aloha Airlines' functions to capture the event for airliner magazines ... the return of the Funbird, their 60th birthday celebration, Wyland's painting of N748AL, and the leasing of PH-HZO. Over that course of time, I have also met a lot of great people from the front office, maintenance dept., cabin crews and flight crews. You're all good people!

The return of the "Funbird"




Aloha's 60th Birthday Celebration





The Embraer E-190 visit and demo flights


Wyland and Koholālele




Leasing of Transavia's PH-HZO


To all of you at Aloha Airlines, mahalo for letting me be a part of your events ... my heartfelt prayers are with you all.