Father's Day came early for Barry Kane.

The 60-year-old Aloha Airlines pilot, who retired yesterday, flew his final flight for the local carrier with his son Michael Kane as his co-pilot.

"We don't fly together too often ... so it was just awesome," Kane said of yesterday's flight from Reno, Nev., to Orange County, Calif., to Honolulu.

Kane, a 38-year Aloha employee, is the company's most senior pilot. Michael Kane, 27, has been flying with Aloha for about four years.

Barry Kane's father, 87-year-old Alex Kane, is a former World War II fighter pilot who flew commercially for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines before retiring more than two decades ago.

Kane said both he and his son fly on Aloha's transpacific routes but that the two typically do not share the cockpit because of scheduling difficulties.

He was relieved that the airline was able to bend their schedules so that he and his son could work together on his last flight.

In addition to the Kanes, there are several family teams that fly together at Aloha.

Pilot Michael Feeney flies on transpacific flights with his sister, Kelly Feeney, as his co-pilot, and just last month, Aloha Capt. Pat Oka paired up for the first time with his daughter, First Officer Jennifer Oka.

Travelers also made the final flight memorable, Barry Kane said. Passengers gave a round of applause after crew members announced that the flight would be Kane's last.

One flight attendant got passengers to play trivia games, asking them to guess the number of times that Kane flew to Maui and other destinations during his career.

"We had a lot of happy people," he said.

Reach Rick Daysog at rdaysog@honoluluadvertiser.com.