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Hawaii's Aloha Airline runs its last flight
Tearful employees said goodbye to the 61-year-old airline that shut down.
HONOLULU -- Aloha Airlines has landed its last flight in Honolulu.
About 100 out-of-work employees cheered and wept as they jammed the Aloha side of Honolulu's interisland terminal late Monday to greet the final landing. Flight 251 from Maui touched down at 10:32 p.m., eight minutes ahead of schedule.
More than half the 80 people aboard were Aloha employees taking their last ride on the airline that had been around for 61 years.
One of the passengers, Aloha pilot Mike Uslan, toasted passengers with a plastic cup of guava juice -- "To the last of the good airlines," he said.
Mike Moore was to pilot the last flight, but at the last minute handed the job over to Darryll Wong, who was the airline's most senior pilot when it shut down for good.
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