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For those of you inter-island travelers, you probably kept tabs on the merger between Go! and Mokulele Airlines. And you’ve probably wondered if it was going to mean higher fares for your weekend trips to the outer islands or back to Oahu. Well, it looks like for now, Go! Airlines is sticking by their $39 one-way tickets by offering the cheapest flights to the island of Lanai we’ve seen in a while.

It looks like the newly merged airline will offer ticket prices between Honolulu and Lana’i for $39 if you travel between May 20th and August 31st. The only blackout dates are Fridays, so if you’re going for the weekend, you gotta start earlier it looks like. Nice! Aloha Thursdays. Tickets must be purchased by April 16th.

The airline will be offering two flights daily roundtrip from Honolulu to Lanai. A great boost for those that thought the added ticket price, to the already pricey stay at the Four Seasons Hotels on Lanai was just too much.

As if the airline industry in Hawaii could get any more complicated.  With the closing of Aloha Airlines last year, the continued price wars between those remaining, and the economy weakening day after day, the inter-island travel industry just got another jolt.

go! Airlines and Mokulele are merging under Mesa Air Group to form go! Mokulele. This undoubtedly means higher prices for flights between the Hawaiian islands. Yuk! This comes at a time when Maui, Kauai, and The Big Island have all seen huge economic losses, and could mean further losses from those kama’aina that like to travel inter-island on a weekend getaway.

The new airline, only has to compete with Hawaiian Airlines, whose known for having higher priced tickets with it’s larger airplanes and higher carrying capacity. Only time will tell whether or note the price of your flight to Maui will increase, but we think it most likely has to.

For those of you with tickets on either go! or Mokulele, your tickets will still be valid and you can continue to book with either company, which will eventually become one seemless company as the merger continues.

Who will be the next airline to try and take a stab at inter-island travel?