go! Mokulele was an American

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marketing inter-island flights within the state of

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

. The airline was a

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between

Mesa Airlines Mesa Airlines, Inc., is an American regional airline based in Phoenix, Arizona. It is an FAA Part 121–certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number MASA036A issued on June 29, 1979. It is a subsidiary of Mesa Air ...

and Mokulele Flight Services formed in October 2009 when the companies merged their competing airline business

subsidiaries A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a sa ...

, go! and

Mokulele Airlines Southern Airways Express, doing business as Mokulele Airlines, is an American commuter airline operating in Hawaii. The airline operates scheduled inter-island and charter flights among all Hawaiian islands with airports. Mokulele Airlines was ...

, under one

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. Mesa Air Group owned approximately 75% of the company, while Transpac and other Mokulele shareholders owned approximately 25%. The airline had its headquarters in

Honolulu CDP Honolulu (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of H ...

City and County of Honolulu Honolulu County (officially known as the City and County of Honolulu, formerly Oahu County) is a consolidated city–county in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The city–county includes both the city of Honolulu (the state's capital and largest city ...

. Following Mesa's late 2011 divestiture of its ownership stake in Mokulele, Mesa announced it was discontinuing the "go! Mokulele" brand. go! Mokulele did not hold its own

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. Instead, flights were operated by

and Mokulele Airlines for Go! Mokulele.

Destinations

All destinations served by go! Mokulele were in the state of

in the

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. The following destinations were served:

Fleet

References

{{Airlines of the United States Defunct airlines of the United States Airlines established in 2009 Airlines disestablished in 2012 Defunct regional airlines of the United States Defunct companies based in Hawaii Transportation in Hawaii County, Hawaii Mesa Air Group 2009 establishments in Hawaii 2012 disestablishments in Hawaii ja:モクレレ航空

Destinations

Fleet

See also

References