Saltchuk has been doing business in Hawaii since 2000 when it acquired Young Brothers / Hawaiian Tug & Barge. Senator Daniel Inouye, sold the airline’s profitable cargo division to Seattle-based Saltchuk, which in turn operates five (5) primary lines of business – Foss (Marine Resources), Tote (Shipping and Logistics), Interstate (Trucking), Northstar (Petroleum Distribution), and Northern Aviation Services which operates both Aloha Air Cargo and sister company, Northern Air Cargo. Aloha Airlines and its creditors, with the help of U.S. On March 31, 2008, Aloha Airlines closed its doors, halting its passenger services. In the evening, pallets of seats were removed to accommodate the overnight cargo. Aloha’s dual purpose Boeing 737-200 QC aircraft, better known as ‘quick change’ aircraft, had the unique ability to convert from a passenger configuration to an exclusively cargo configuration in less than an hour.
Originally, Aloha’s cargo business consisted of carrying freight in the cargo holds below the floors of regular passenger flights. Aloha Air Cargo had its beginnings as a unit of Aloha Airlines, a passenger airline that served Hawaii and US mainland destinations from 1946 to 2008 for 61 years.
