After several months of fares as low as $1 for inter-island flights, the future of Hawaii’s low cost airline, go!, looks to be a bit shaky. Yesterday, a judge ordered Mesa Air Group, the parent company for go! Airlines, to pay Hawaiian Air $80 million for misusing confidential information in a bankruptcy case. Mesa representatives plan to appeal the judgement and they insist they are not going away, per a KITV report.
If you are on the fence about when to buy inter-island flights, now might be the best time to make your purchase. If only we had a crystal ball, we’d know for sure what will happen with go! Airlines and flight fares. Logic would suggest that an $80 million hit plus legal fees wouldn’t exactly result in lowering fares, but go! has defied logic in some of their unbelievably low fares. Stay tuned, this could get interesting.
Sheila Beal
