Consolidated "Experience with go! Airlines" thread
Aug 1, 2006, 11:26 pm
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Aug 2, 2006, 12:32 am
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Originally Posted by hal717200
Mesa employees did not even learn how to properly pronounce the Hawaiian Island/City names. Yet, they made sure to give us an over-the-top "Aloha!" How embarassing.
Aug 2, 2006, 9:00 pm
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go! Flight Experiences [Merged thread; Posts by Volvic, slippahs, cblaisd, et al]
Perhaps it was not the YV1003 but it was the HNL to KOA at 11:30 am and it was a GREAT flight.
1) The FA was a human being, very smiling and professional. She hunged up a few collegues who were just there... she told us she did not greeted them today.
2) Professional security breefing.
3) it was a RJ (it's a CJ 200, right ?) and the seat are comfortable. Yes, I was not and I'm not drunk. The seat are comfortable. And I had over 24 hours of previous (flat) seats in my back. For a 45 minutes flights they are great. Ladies and gentlemen, if you do not agree, do not go and fly domestically in EU, never.
4) The drink/snacks were on pay base, but the prices looked very honest to me.
5) On my flight there were also a blind man and an other one with a stample (bad leg) ,and they were both taken care properly.
6) Loading factor, let me say 70% if not more.
7) Today, speaking with a local person after a usual cofee tour, I understood she liked a lot the new fares (she used the word 'fare war', so perhaps she was a FTer) and she fully understood it was a new airline lowering the inter-island prices to affordable levels.
Addendum:
I never saw soo many old 737 as the ones parked in HNL... are they the 200s ? I mean the ones with funny cigar like small engines. The 735 engine is four time their size. Amazing.
1) The FA was a human being, very smiling and professional. She hunged up a few collegues who were just there... she told us she did not greeted them today.
2) Professional security breefing.
3) it was a RJ (it's a CJ 200, right ?) and the seat are comfortable. Yes, I was not and I'm not drunk. The seat are comfortable. And I had over 24 hours of previous (flat) seats in my back. For a 45 minutes flights they are great. Ladies and gentlemen, if you do not agree, do not go and fly domestically in EU, never.
4) The drink/snacks were on pay base, but the prices looked very honest to me.
5) On my flight there were also a blind man and an other one with a stample (bad leg) ,and they were both taken care properly.
6) Loading factor, let me say 70% if not more.
7) Today, speaking with a local person after a usual cofee tour, I understood she liked a lot the new fares (she used the word 'fare war', so perhaps she was a FTer) and she fully understood it was a new airline lowering the inter-island prices to affordable levels.
Addendum:
I never saw soo many old 737 as the ones parked in HNL... are they the 200s ? I mean the ones with funny cigar like small engines. The 735 engine is four time their size. Amazing.
Aug 2, 2006, 9:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Volvic
I never saw soo many old 737 as the ones parked in HNL... are they the 200s ?
Glad you had a nice experience.
Aug 2, 2006, 10:30 pm
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Seeing how I'll be taking my first go! flight in a few days (as they say, you can't criticize until you try it), this is good news. I'm still going in with no expectations, however...
Aug 3, 2006, 11:07 am
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Originally Posted by FlyinHawaiian
Yep, those were Aloha's fleet of venerable 737 200s....
Perhaps Aloha can generate additional revenue by giving tours of it's collection of antique aircraft?
Aug 3, 2006, 12:49 pm
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Originally Posted by kaukau
Perhaps Aloha can generate additional revenue by giving tours of it's collection of antique aircraft?
Tail # Year
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N835AL - 1978
N834AL - 1974 <---- Cargo Aircraft
N828AL - 1985
N826AL - 1983
N824AL - 1983
N823AL - 1985 <---- Funbird
N821AL - 1985
N820AL - 1981
N818AL - 1980
On short-term lease:
N250TR - 1981 <---- Ex-Hooters Air
N252TR - 1983 <---- Ex-Hooters Air
The average age of their 737-200 fleet is 24. Thats hardly an antique when you take into consideration that there are DC-9's built in the 1960's still flying for a major trunk carrier on the mainland US.
Last edited by hal717200; Aug 3, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Aug 3, 2006, 1:00 pm
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Originally Posted by hal717200
The average age of their 737-200 fleet is 24. Thats hardly antique
Um, actually, Antique in the business world is 25+ years. The DMV will register a 25 year old vehicle as an antique. You can put antique plates on a 25 year old vehicle.
Save's money on insurance and registration. 
Last edited by kaukau; Aug 3, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Aug 3, 2006, 2:38 pm
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Originally Posted by hal717200
Thats hardly an antique when you take into consideration that there are DC-9's built in the 1960's still flying for a major trunk carrier on the mainland US.
Aug 3, 2006, 9:57 pm
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Originally Posted by hal717200
The average age of their 737-200 fleet is 24. Thats hardly an antique when you take into consideration that there are DC-9's built in the 1960's still flying for a major trunk carrier on the mainland US.
24 looks like an antique.(And if the mainland carrier is the one I'm thinking of, the DC-9's are giving way to a greater number of CRJ200's like Go! uses, aren't they?)
Aug 3, 2006, 10:21 pm
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Originally Posted by DanTravels
(And if the mainland carrier is the one I'm thinking of, the DC-9's are giving way to a greater number of CRJ200's like Go! uses, aren't they?)
Aug 5, 2006, 1:46 am
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Originally Posted by hal717200
Most of the Boeing 737-200 aircraft flying for Aloha were actually manufactured in the 1980's.
The average age of their 737-200 fleet is 24. Thats hardly an antique when you take into consideration that there are DC-9's built in the 1960's still flying for a major trunk carrier on the mainland US.
The average age of their 737-200 fleet is 24. Thats hardly an antique when you take into consideration that there are DC-9's built in the 1960's still flying for a major trunk carrier on the mainland US.