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...spite of the excitement over the Inaugural ball, Hawaii has a bit of a chip on its shoulder. Obama, after all, is a Senator from Illinois, and the incoming President comes off as more a Land of Lincolner than a son of the Aloha State. It's been that way throughout his political career. For example, it took more than a year of watching Obama play poker in "the Committee Meeting" - the nickname that Illinois state senators gave their regular, after-hours poker games - for legislator Denny Jacobs to notice Obama's occasional offhand references to Hawaii's nearly year...
...vacation, with dozens of reporters in tow shadowing his every move from getting a haircut to biking with his daughters. No matter how low-key his intentions, there's little chance of the trip not looking like victorious Caesar returning from the front: not only did Obama win the Aloha State's primary and the Democratic nomination, he is arguably already the best-known Hawaiian native ever...
...doors leading to the check-in kiosks. "Our customers find this sometimes more convenient than waiting in line at the desk," says McGuinness as he taps on the screen to demonstrate how you can select the location of your room. The actual check-in desk, called the Aloha desk, to the left, is circular--there's no imposing, long granite counter. "We wanted to put the desk staff in the middle of the room," McGuinness says as he backs up against the nearest wall. "Who stands against the wall at a party? Wallflowers...
...this won't be a knockout punch for American, which expects to be back to normal service by Sunday. A much bigger worry for every airline is fuel costs, which have doubled over the last year. That's what's behind the troubles of ATA, Skybus, Aloha and Frontier Airlines, which have all filed for bankruptcy protection within the last three weeks. The FAA is continuing its by-the-book campaign with audits of other airlines, but there may not be another inspection-related shutdown of this magnitude anytime soon, since no other carrier is as dependent...
FINANCIAL WOES Aloha Airlines, ATA and Skybus all ceased operations in the same week this month, and Champion Air will shut down in May. Rising fuel prices, among other factors, made it difficult to stay...