Aloha

Aloha Airlines shut down earlier this week. As airlines go, it’s a pretty tiny one. So the shutdown won’t really impact anyone but its employees, suppliers, and whoever was recently booked on it. Still, I’m sad, because Aloha was the first airline I decided was *my* airline. They were the airline for my first flight that didn’t involve moving. They carried me and my dad from Oahu to Hawai’i, for a long father/son weekend on the Kona side of the island. To this day, I can still remember being unable to sleep the night before the trip, and repeatedly pulling out and looking at the tickets in excited anticipation. So that 70’s logo you see above is burned into my mind, and represents something that was nothing but good.

Aloha, Aloha Airlines.