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• Airlines We Lost in 2008

  It’s time once again for the third annual edition of “Airlines We Lost.” This was a pretty active year, as you can probably imagine. Sadly, my wish last year for Alitalia to be on this year’s list has not come true. That airline... Posted Dec 31 2008, 04:25 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: ATA, Aloha, Skybus, ExpressJet, Eos, Champion, Palmair, Pan Am, Adam Air, Silverjet, Airlines We Lost, Oasis Hong Kong, Aero California

• This Week on BNET (Dec 1 - 5)

  Mesa Settles Aloha Lawsuit, Wants to Use Aloha Name Mesa wants to use the name of its now vanquished rival, Aloha, on its airplanes. There are so many reasons this is a bad idea, it’s not even funny. Continental’s November Traffic Performance Shows... Posted Dec 06 2008, 03:35 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Lufthansa, JetBlue, Southwest, Continental, Aloha, Delta, Hawaiian, Go!, BNET, Fuel, LGA - New York/La Guardia

• Skybus Shutdown Completes This Week’s Hat Trick

  Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Monday it’s Aloha, Thursday it’s ATA, and now Saturday it’s Skybus. The airline flew its final flight last night, and now all the shiny new Airbii (um, let’s just pretend like that’s... Posted Apr 05 2008, 02:51 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: ATA, Aloha, Skybus

• Aloha ‘Oe, Aloha Airlines

  You may remember that I said last week that I probably wouldn’t book a flight on Aloha for travel more than a couple weeks out. It looks like the airline won’t even make it that long. Aloha has announced that, not surprisingly, there just... Posted Mar 31 2008, 03:50 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Aloha, Hawaiian, Go!

• Aloha Means Hello . . . and Goodbye?

  It looks like high oil prices may have claimed their first airline victim. Aloha Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, and unlike their last stint, I’m not so sure they’re going to come out of this one. What does that... Posted Mar 24 2008, 02:41 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Mergers/Finance, Aloha