Air Hawaii

Air Hawaii
Founded	1985
Commenced operations	November 22, 1985
Ceased operations	February 19, 1986
Hubs	Honolulu International Airport
Fleet size	2
Destinations	3
Parent company	Airwest International, Inc.
Headquarters	Honolulu, Hawaii
Key people

Air Hawaii McDonnell Douglas DC-10 N905WA at Oakland International Airport in 1983

Air Hawaii was a scheduled passenger airline providing service between Honolulu and the U.S. West Coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. The airline advertised its service as "High Class. Low Fares." Founded by , who previously started The Hawaii Express and would later co-found CheapTickets, Air Hawaii began operations between Honolulu and Los Angeles on November 22, 1985, and added service between San Francisco in December. The airline almost immediately ran into financial problems and discontinued operations on February 19, 1986.

There were also two other airlines which used the name Air Hawaii respectively in 1968 and 1981 with both air carriers operating inter-island commuter flights in Hawaii with small turboprop and prop aircraft.^[1]

Destinations[]

Air Hawaii served three destinations in the United States:

Honolulu (Honolulu International Airport - HNL)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles International Airport - LAX)
San Francisco (San Francisco International Airport - SFO)

Fleet[]

Air Hawaii operated two McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 aircraft. Both of these planes had previously operated for Michael Hartley's previous venture, The Hawaii Express.^[2]

N904WA cn/ln: 46930/112 delivered: 13 January 1986
N905WA cn/ln: 46938/153 delivered: 20 November 1985