Be sure to read down to the bottom where he mentions the drop-off charge and concession fee.

Andy Parx did an awesome comment to Larry’s above post:

“The SF isn’t transporting these rental cars for free. No one has pointed out how you’d have to be an imbecile – or so rich you don’t care – to pay the fare for the ferry to transport your rental car when you can return one as you get on and pick up another as you get off…If the rental companies were doing anything – other than allowing it – they would let you keep the same contract and return and pick up cars on either end…” posted by Andy Parx

Aloha, Brad

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They’re losing federal Essential Air Service contracts all over the country. (Believe it or not Island Air just took one away from them in Nebraska) Delta Airlines is trying to terminate their codeshare agreement with Mesa because of poor service. Mesa has said the loss of this contract will send them into bankruptcy. They also just settled a lawsuit with Hawaiian Airlines for $52.5 million. And don’t forget, Aloha Airlines still has a lawsuit pending against them for predatory pricing.

As my mother used to say, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” I think the more competition there is the better.

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@David: I’m with you on having the Superferry as another alternative. As I mentioned above it will be a sad day when Hawaii Airlines is the sole provider of interisland travel and can then have us in the palm of their hands as far as prices go. As for GO! Airlines, I read that their plan after filing bankruptcy does not have them leaving the islands, which is good news for interisland competition.

Cool or not, I don’t know. But the Superferry provides an important alternative means of interisland transportation, as was well illustrated when Aloha Cargo briefly shutdown.

Go! Airlines parent Mesa is literally teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. If they go under it will be a one airline market. Hawaiian will then be able to raise their fare’s drastically if there’s no competition.

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HSF numbers released for May 23-26 were:
5500 people and 1500 vehicles transported and
HSF’s est. for the month of May:
21000 people and 5800 vehicles

First, that means nearly a quarter of all of their traffic for May happened during the 4 days of the Memorial Day weekend.

Second, there were 14 one-way trips over that weekend, so they averaged:
393 people per one-way trip and
107 vehicles per one-way which is
Still not break-even.

Third, they will have had 88 one-way trips for the month of May, so they would average:
239 people per one-way trip and
66 vehicles per one-way which is
NOT Enough on average to cover just their fuel costs for the month of May. Furthermore, those trip averages for the Month of May are actually lower than the trip averages they were having in the latter part of April.

Aloha, Brad

This post is an interesting observation. Sounds like the whole dynamic of interisland travel is changing pretty rapidly.

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