There's been quite a bit of fallout already today about the impending shutdown of Aloha Airlines. Here's a few examples in digest form. Pictured above is the first jet the airline bought, which they received in April of 1966. As I mentioned my brother got an early ride on this sucker.(BAC Courtesy Photo)
Aloha shutdown impacts the hula dancers headed to the Big Island for this year's Merrie Monarch Festival:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/03/31/news/story04.html
How the end of Aloha is playing on the Garden Isle-
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/03/31/news/news02.txt
And a timeline of the airline's history:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080331/NEWS01/803310353/1190/LOCALNEWSFRONT