Mid Pacific Air

♦ Mid Pacific Air was founded as a low-fare competitor to Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines in 1981 and started operations on 15Mar1981. Classified a a commuter airline and during the mid-1980’s was the top ranking company in that category. The airline was unable to compete with Hawaiian and Aloha and ended passenger flights in Hawaii on 19Jan1988, and ended cargo flights there a month later. Following the termination of the Hawaii operation, Mid Pacific moved to the midwestern United States and operated all cargo freighter flights using the YS-11s from a base in Lafayette, Indiana, and in the 1990s operated commuter service via a code sharing agreement with Reno Air under the name Reno Air Express. The airline ceased operations in 1995 ♦