A federal judge ruled today for Hawaiian Airlines. Mesa, the parent company of go! Airlines was told today they would need to pay Hawaiian Airlines $80 million for mis-using confidential bankruptcy information to gain a competitive advantage over other inter-island carriers.
This could mean the price of interisland flights will increase back to pre-go! days. If that’s so, which Hawaiian Airlines CEO has said will happen to interisland flight prices that could mean good news for the Hawaii Superferry depending on how it’s travel schedule pans out. Either way, cheap flights may be a thing of the past if this ruling holds.
Mesa has yet to comment on how the ruling will affect go! Airlines inter-island travel.
- Hawaiian Airlines Increases Interisland Fares
- Mesa Air Drives down Inter-Island Flights
- Go! Airlines Slowly Raises Ticket Prices
Tags: go! Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Plane Tickets
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May 1st, 2008 at 8:24 am
[...] will pay Hawaiian Airlines $52.5 million. This was from the settlement last year that claimed that Mesa used confidential information to enter the market of interisland travel when it was thinking about helping Hawaiian out a few [...]