Go! (styled as
go!), based in
Honolulu is a regional brand of Phoenix, Arizona based
Mesa Airlines. Go! operates inter island services within Hawaii. Its main base is
Honolulu International Airport. It is a division within the Mesa Airlines subsidiary of
Mesa Air Group and its flights are operated by Mesa Airlines.
History
Regional carrier Mesa Airlines started Go!'s inter-island operations on June 9, 2006, using five
Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jet aircraft.
In September 2006, the airline announced that it had reached an agreement with
Mokulele Airlines, whereby Mokulele would operate
Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft to
Kapalua,
Molokai, and
Lanai under the name
Go!Express. Service began with flights from Kapalua to Honolulu, Kahului, and Kona on April 17, 2007. Service began for flights to
Molokai on July 21, 2007 and flights to
Lanai on October 6, 2007. Following Mokulele's agreement with
Republic Airways Holdings to have that company operate flights in Hawaii using 70-seat jets, Mesa announced that it will be terminating the Go!Express agreement with Mokuelele in April 2009. The airline later accelerated plans to terminate the agreement with Mokulele, and ended the code-share on March 24, 2009, replacing it with a new agreement with
Island Air that allows Mesa to sell existing...
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