So, if Hawaiian were to target someone to buy out, who would it be, if we were examining setting up a hub on the mainland, and starting mainland-only services? In research, PHwSF has come up with this list of potentials,
Indeed, if you go back in the history of Hawai‘i aviation and the issues of ownership and who operated, the mere fact that an airline that was not “Hawai‘i based” came in to buy a “Hawai‘i based airline” that didn’t elicit an immediate hearing in the State Capitol on the merits of it told me that, indeed, the relationship between the people of Hawai‘i, its government officials, and its aviation options, has very much changed.