The route is marketed by Aloha, which signs customers and accepts bookings, but sister airline Northern Air Cargo flies a Boeing 767 for Aloha on a charter basis. Aloha operates the route five days a week.
Both companies are subsidiaries of Saltchuk Resources, a diversified freight transportation, logistics and energy distribution holding company based in Seattle.
"The lane has been underperforming for a while. It's a tough market and it wasn't coming back" said April Spurlock, director of marketing and communications at Saltchuk Aviation, in a phone interview.
Other carriers that provide cargo service between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland include passenger carriers Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL), Hawaiian ...