Superferry is notifying customers so that no one is stranded as happened last time the Hawai'i Supreme Court ruled against them. You'll recall that instead of delaying their operational start, they moved it ahead. Thus when the injunction came down three days later, many passengers were stranded with no way to get their vehicles home.
We applaud Superferry for thinking of their customers first this time and complying with the law (finally).
One imagines that the Superferry stockholders are breathing a sigh of relief. Now Superferry can go off and get lucrative military contracts instead of losing money on almost every trip they make. And they'll be able to blame those "pesky environmentalists" instead of having to admit that their business plan was faulty.
In 2004 when we first asked Superferry to do an EIS, we expected that one finding would be that they should downsize and slow their ferry. If they had, they would have been profitable at their current passenger load. With lower fuel expenses, they could have offered lower fares. (Right now their fares look low but there is a hidden "fuel surcharge" that makes them as expensive as flying)
Read more at the Honolulu Advertiser and in Joan Conrow's Blog, Kaua'i Eclectic
Monday, March 16, 2009
Superferry to Cease Operations Thursday
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At least they only hit one whale that we know of (suspect) before stopping.
And to you folks moaning about job layoffs. If you want a business to break the law and stay operating, why are you closing down the ice dealers...after all you are putting lots of people out of business by busting them.
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