By Nina Wu
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Honolulu – Aloha Airlines and United Airlines announced a new partnership yesterday in which the larger carrier would become a minority equity partner in Aloha, with a seat on the isle firm’s board of directors.
Chicago-based United Airlines will now share flight codes with Aloha Airlines on all of its mainland-Hawaii and Japan-Hawaii flights. Both companies declined to disclose United’s actual stake in Aloha.
United also partners with Arizona-based Mesa Air Group, which is in a legal battle with Aloha over the startup of Mesa’s low-fare interisland airline, go! Mesa shares codes on some United flights and operates commuter service as United Express.
David Banmiller, Aloha’s president and CEO, said the new deal is separate from the Aloha-Mesa legal dispute. Rather, he said, the deal represents the culmination of a longtime marketing partnership with United that goes back to the early 1990s. But he added that the agreement “sends [...]
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