Drunk Paparazzi in the Honolulu Aiport

Umbrella Drink No. ?, Honolulu Airport

Mai Tai at the Mahalo Bar, Honolulu Airport

Not All of the Umbrellas

Walking to the go! Plane, Honolulu Airport

go! Plane, Honolulu Airport

go! Plane to Lihue, Honolulu Airport

go!, Honolulu Airport

When we got to Honolulu our traveling wasn’t quite over yet. We needed to take a quick trip over to Lihue, Kauai. Except that our inter-island flight on go! got canceled so we had to wait 4 hours for the next one. Instead of calling up a friend or relative in Honolulu to come get us and get out of the airport, we just killed some time drinking in the airport bar. We had all of our luggage with us and John and Susan were arriving shortly, so it seemed easier to just wait it out than anything else. What a long wait, though. By that time we were in the air for something like 9 hours and just wanted to be at our final destination.

Until recently, Aloha Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines were the only two airlines that provided interisland flights. They were pretty much the same, if you ask me, and each charged about $100 each way for flights between the islands. Then along came Mesa Airlines with go! and everything was all shook up. go! decided to do round-trip flights between the islands for half the price of Hawaiian and Aloha - only $100. So, of course Hawaiian and Aloha airlines had to lower their prices and it was a huge controversy and everything. We flew go! for the first time and it was pretty standard. The only sort of strange thing was that you have to purchase any drinks you wanted.. no free POG like Hawaiian and Aloha offer. I always thought it was weird to have drink service on a 20-minute flight anyway. If they want to skip the drinks and offer half-price fares, that is fine with me.

One funny thing is that for the instructions and safety information, go! uses a recording of a guy, maybe two guys, saying it all in a local dialect with some pidgin thrown in. It’s kind of funny. Probably the only time I’ve listened to that stuff in years. They even start out with a good “Aloooooha!” and end with “Ahhhhhhright”. Funny. The only bad thing was that go! is located way out in the commuter terminal, which Dallas said is the really old inter-island terminal. Nothing really wrong with it, but it’s just a hike to walk or take a shuttle to.