New Orleans— Ke hoʻi nei ʻo AeroMexico i ka lawelawe mokulele mokulele i New Orleans no ka manawa mua ma hope o ka Hurricane Katrina.
E hoʻomaka ana i ka lā 6 o Iulai, e hāʻawi ka mokulele i hoʻokahi lele pololei a pau ʻole, i ka Pōʻakahi a i ka Pōʻaono, i Mexico City e hoʻomau i San Pedro Sula, Honduras. E hoʻohana ʻo AeroMexico i nā mokulele āpana he 50 noho no ka lele ʻelua hola i Mexico City.
I loko o kahi kūkā nūhou i ka pule i hala aku nei, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Mayor Ray Nagin e lilo ka mokulele i mea hoʻoikaika i ka mākaʻikaʻi a me ka ʻoihana a hāʻawi i ka huakaʻi maʻalahi no nā kamaʻāina kūloko i pili i ka ʻohana me Mexico a me Honduras.
Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka mokulele ma hope o hoʻokahi makahiki o ke kūkākūkā ʻana me AeroMexico. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Hope Pelekikena ʻo Frank Galan i mea e kūleʻa ai, pono nā mokulele i ka awelika ma kahi o 33 mau kaʻa.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Galan, ke kamaʻilio nei ka mokulele a me ke kūlanakauhale e pili ana i kahi mokulele pololei e hāʻawi i ka lawelawe i Cancun, Mexico.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Nagin, ua komo ke kūlanakauhale i kahi kuʻikahi kaʻana like me ka mokulele e pili ana i ka helu o nā poʻe holo. Hiki i ke kūlanakauhale ke lilo i $250,000 inā hāʻule ka lele. Ua hana pū ʻo Ochsner Health System i kahi "kōkua kālā" e hoʻokumu i ka lele, wahi a ke kuhina.
Ma kahi o 4,000 mau maʻi a me nā kauka lapaʻau e hele mai i Ochsner i kēlā me kēia makahiki, ʻo ka hapa nui mai Honduras, Nicaragua a me Venezuela, wahi a Kauka Ana Hands, ka luna o ka ʻōnaehana o nā lawelawe olakino honua.
Ma mua o ka Hurricane Katrina, ua loaʻa ka lawelawe lewa mai Louis Armstrong New Orleans International a i Honduras ma o TACA Airlines a i Toronto ma Air Canada.
