OPEN · SHIPPING NOW
Fremont, CA
San Francisco Bay Area
- Address opens2 min
- DeparturesNightly · 22:42 PDT
- Cutoff for tonight4:00 PM PDT
- SFO → HNL5h 20m
★ About
A box. A flight. A lanai.
We are a small team in Honolulu and the Bay Area who got tired of hearing “we don't ship to Hawaii.” So we built the plane instead.
It started with a surfboard.
In 2019, our founder Kai tried to get a longboard from a shaper in Oceanside to his house in Hale'iwa. The shaper didn't ship to Hawai'i. The forwarders that did wanted $340 and six weeks on a container ship.
Kai's cousin flew SFO → HNL on Hawaiian every Tuesday. “Just put it under the plane,” he said. So that's what they did. The board arrived in 38 hours. The idea arrived somewhere over Fresno.
“If every Hawaiian plane has a belly, and every belly is going back empty, why is anything taking six weeks?”
That's the whole business: we bought belly space from airlines who were flying it anyway. We put a warehouse five minutes from SFO. We hired humans to read tracking numbers. We answer our own phone.
Seven years later, we fly thousands of packages a year to every island in the chain, and nobody who works here has ever called their customer “a ticket.”
Seven years,
four milestones.
2019
One cousin, one plane.
Kai ships his first 12 boxes out of a storage unit in Torrance. LAX → HNL only. Word gets around.
2021
All six islands.
We expand last-mile to every Hawaiian island, including Lanai (population: 3,000). 2,400 monthly shippers.
2023
Own the warehouse.
We outgrow the storage unit. Move to a 12,000 sq ft facility in Torrance with a forklift named Brenda.
2026
You, right now.
4,000+ monthly shippers, nightly flights, and you're reading this. Welcome. We're glad you're here.
Numbers we're proud of.
12K+
Packages flown / yr
A plane every single night, 365 days.
2.1
Avg days, door-to-door
Measured from warehouse receipt to delivery photo.
99.2%
On-time delivery
Tracked per package, per island. The website updates nightly.
18
Humans on staff
Five in Torrance, thirteen across the islands.
The humans on the other end.
A sample. The rest are in the warehouse loading the 10:42 flight.
K
Kai Nakamura
Founder / CEO
Started this with a surfboard and a cousin. Still surfs. Still answers the phone sometimes.
L
Leilani Park
Ops Lead, Torrance
Runs the LA warehouse like a kitchen line. Has personally touched 40% of our packages.
M
Makoa Silva
Island Logistics
Coordinates inter-island hops and last-mile across Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island, Molokai, Lanai.
N
Noa Tanaka
Engineering
Built the tracker. Writes Python. Makes excellent garlic shrimp. Works from Hilo.
What we refuse to be.
01
A chatbot.
Call us. A human picks up. If it's 2 AM HST, it'll be a human in Torrance. Either way, human.
02
A fuel-surcharge machine.
The rate card is the whole base price. We have a few honest add-ons (express, hazmat, heavy freight) — all listed publicly. No fuel fees, no holiday spikes, no dim-weight games. Ever.
03
A venture pitch deck.
We're profitable. We own the warehouse. Kai's cousin owns 2% of the company. We'd like to stay like this.
★ Where we are
Two warehouses.
One flight path.
A second hub opens in Oregon late 2026 — same playbook, same timing, same prices.
COMING Q4 · 2026
Portland, OR
Portland metro
- Why Portland?No sales tax
- DeparturesSame nightly window
- Cutoff4:00 PM PT
- PDX → HNL5h 50m