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According to Pacific Business News, a Hawaii based business newspaper, Mokulele Airlines, currently a provider of Hawaii inter island flights, will also offer service to and from Chicago in April of this year and will expand to London the following month.  The article reports that the Honolulu-based carrier of Hawaii inter island flights recently received approval from the Department of Transportation to fly from Honolulu to Chicago Rockford International Airport in Illinois and then to fly from Rockford to London’s Stansted Airport.  Mokulele is leasing a Boeing 767-200ER aircraft from Air Transportation International to support the service.

According to the article, Mokulele Airlines currently makes Hawaii interisland flights using four nine-passenger Cessna Caravan turboprop air-crafts, which were purchased from go!Mokulele parent’s Mesa Airlines in November of last year.  Mokulele and go! still operate as joint venture in Hawaii called go!Mokulele and offers daily scheduled interisland flights.

It’s somewhat ironic that both Mokulele and go! merged together several years ago in the hopes of better positioning itself in the market for Hawaii interisland flights; but now they seem to be going in different directions.  People may recall that go! entered the Hawaii market with the intent of driving Aloha Airlines of out the market, which they certainly helped to do.  And then go!’s parent Mesa airlines had to declare bankruptcy and then entered into a partnership with Mokulele.  But as with Hawaiian Airlines, Mokulele is probably seeing that the way to survive as a Hawaii based carrier is to expand into flights outside of the interisland market.