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Air Hawaii was a scheduled passenger
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providing service between
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and the U.S. West Coast cities of
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and
San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
. The airline advertised its service as ''"High Class. Low Fares."'' Founded by Michael J. Hartley, who previously started
The Hawaii Express The Hawaii Express was a scheduled passenger airline that operated flights between Los Angeles, California (LAX) and Honolulu, Hawaii (HNL). It was nicknamed "The Big Pineapple" and started service with one Boeing 747-100 aircraft, featuring ...
and would later co-found
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, Air Hawaii began operations between Honolulu and Los Angeles on November 22, 1985, and added service between San Francisco in December. The airline almost immediately ran into financial problems and discontinued operations on February 19, 1986. There were also two other airlines which used the name Air Hawaii respectively in 1968 and 1981 with both air carriers operating inter-island commuter flights in Hawaii with small turboprop and prop aircraft.


Destinations

Air Hawaii served three destinations in the United States: *
Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...
(
Honolulu International Airport Daniel K. Inouye International Airport , also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main airport of Oahu, Hawaii.Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
(
Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles International Airport , commonly referred to as LAX (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California and its surrounding metropolitan area. LAX is located in the W ...
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LAX Los Angeles International Airport , commonly referred to as LAX (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California and its surrounding metropolitan area. LAX is located in the W ...
) *
San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
(
San Francisco International Airport San Francisco International Airport is an international airport in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County, south of Downtown San Francisco. It has flights to points throughout North America and is a major gateway to Europe, the Middle E ...
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)


Fleet

Air Hawaii operated two
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aircraft. Both of these planes had previously operated for Michael Hartley's previous venture,
The Hawaii Express The Hawaii Express was a scheduled passenger airline that operated flights between Los Angeles, California (LAX) and Honolulu, Hawaii (HNL). It was nicknamed "The Big Pineapple" and started service with one Boeing 747-100 aircraft, featuring ...
.Air Hawaii fleet
/ref> * N904WA cn/ln: 46930/112 delivered: 13 January 1986 * N905WA cn/ln: 46938/153 delivered: 20 November 1985


See also

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References

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In Re Airwest International, Inc., Dba Air Hawaii, Debtor.wyman W.c. Lai, Trustee for Airwest International, Inc., Dbaair Hawaii, Plaintiff-appellee, v. International Air Leases Inc., a Delaware Corporation;world Airways, Inc., a Delaware Corporation,defendants-appellants


External links


Air Hawaii DC-10 Photo
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Airliners.net


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Hawai'i Post
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