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Old Nov 27, 2009 | 8:02 am
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AS just got done normalizing around all 737s. They're not going to bring in a different fleet type and the corporate inefficiencies that go with it (whether it's 757 or 747!) to serve a particular destination. The costs of running a Hawaii-centric airline-within-an-airline would far outweigh the profit potential from the HI stations, and there's no guarantee they're in HI for the long haul anyway.
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