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- Album Air Hawaii
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Air Hawaii was looking for a new interisland aircraft in the mid-1990s as it realized that its fleet of 737-200 aircraft would soon be outdated and were no longer in production. The airline briefly operated a few 737-300 and -300QC jets but found that the type was slightly too large for the interisland market and the number of frequencies which the airline flew each day. Consequently, Air Hawaii began searching for a different type while planning to continue operating the old 737-200s for a while longer.
Because of the airline's profitable interisland cargo operations, the new aircraft needed to have a quick-change variant in order for the jets to carry passengers during the day and be converted to carry cargo during the night. This made some types in the 100-150 seat range unsuitable as there was no quick-change variant offered. Eventually, the Avro RJ was selected to to the availability of a QC variant and the lower acquisition cost when compared to some other regional aircraft. The airline ordered eight standard RJs and two QC versions equipped with a cargo door and seats which could be removed in about 30 minutes. These jets served with Air Hawaii until the introduction of the Embraer E-Jet.
A QC!!! Don't see these round here that often. Love it!
I love this! The BAe 146/Avro RJ is highly underrated in my opinion.
Oh nice!
A QC!!! Don't see these round here that often. Love it!
OMG yes
Thanks, guys!
I love this! The BAe 146/Avro RJ is highly underrated in my opinion.
Yeah, its too bad that BAe cancelled the RJX program...otherwise we would probably still see a lot of those around.
Regional fleet is pretty cool! Though I know realism doesn’t really make much difference these days on AE, but the reason Hawaiian operates the 717’s still is because the engine cool down time is low on the 717 allowing Hawaiian to operate extremely quick turnarounds thus allowing more flights to operate. Currently no aircraft on the market has an engine that can cool down as quickly as the 717 can hence why they are holding onto those until the bitter end. They are also very light so it’s low fuel consumption for such short flights. Not sure the BaE would have faired well if used on the sort of inter-island flying that Hawaiian operates.
Yes, that's correct. From what I've researched, Aloha Airlines was considering the Avro (or at least the RJX) for some time and Discovery Airways operated the BAe on interisland flights for a short time in the 1990s. I'm not sure how the engines fared though. Tbh, I love the 717 and was considering it for this brand but I also wanted to do something a little bit different for Hawaii 
BAe would've been great for Inter-island, good range and short runway requirement. If only they weren't so set on Buy American back then.
I thought about bringing 146 to Hawaii as well.
beautiful
Oh nice!