HALFA From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1324 posts, RR: 17 Posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 5730 times:
Hawaiian Airlines will only except credit cards or coupons for all purchases made inflight starting October 15th. Passengers will be notified via email, or when checking in either via the web or at the airport check-in counters regarding new inflight purchase procedures.
Hawaiian rents Digeplayers for $15.00, and headsets for $5.00 and also offers all alcoholic beverages at $5.00 and sells an assortment of snacks, also at $5.00 in addition to offering a complimentary hot meal service on all Trans-Pacific flights, excluding red-eyes, where only sandwiches are offered.
Passengers flying Hawaiian will be able to purchase coupons for any item they wish, prior to boarding if they are not travelling with a credit card.
Looks like a sign of the times.
Aloha,
HALFA
HNL-AKL Starts March 2013, HNL-SDJ starts June 2013, HNL-TPE Starts July 2013
FoxBravo From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 2806 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 5641 times:
Quoting N231YE (Reply 1): Wow, I was surprised. The title of this thread made me think HA was going bankrupt
Yeah, let's hope they're NOT going "cashless" in that sense!
Jkarp2112 From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 49 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 5498 times:
They already have (and use) CC machines for digi player and drink purchases - many people sitting around me on my flights last week used there CC for purchases. To me it's a good thing as I'd rather save my cash for tips, taxi, etc.
Aloha717200 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 4397 posts, RR: 17 Reply 7, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 5285 times:
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12333 posts, RR: 12 Reply 8, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 5224 times:
Mainly security of the money, and the costs with handling it. CC's, and prepaid coupons mean you don't have money that can be lost, stolen or micounted, handling change and so on. If I am correct, WN has encourged prepaid coupons for years for in flight purchases and I agree that this will become more of a trend. Just make sure you can purchase them at the gates or check in counters for those whom don't use credit or Master Card or Visa connected debit cards.
Aloha73G From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2301 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 21 hours ago) and read 3684 times:
Samurai 777 From Canada, joined Jan 2000, 2451 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 3319 times:
Quoting HALFA (Thread starter): Hawaiian Airlines will only except credit cards or coupons for all purchases made inflight starting October 15th.
Actually, the word should be accept instead of except.
Is it possible that it's not only secutrity reasons, but also that HA doesn't want to deal with all that counterfeit cash that seems so rampant these days?
I know there's a great many retailers and restaurant/bars that no longer accept older bills (in my country at least) with denominations of $20, $50 and $100. It's probably only logical that airlines like HA and other transportation comapnies will choose to do the same - or go further by not accepting cash at all, as is the case.
United_Fan From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 7159 posts, RR: 8 Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 3135 times:
So how do they transmit your CC # over the pacific to see if it's good ? Satellites?
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HALFA From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1324 posts, RR: 17 Reply 15, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 2954 times:
Quoting Samurai 777 (Reply 11): Actually, the word should be accept instead of except.
Thank you, I noticed the mistake later but couldn't edit it out. While we're correcting each other, it is security and companies instead of secutrity and comapnies.
Quoting HnlBoi (Reply 12): What kind of snacks does HA sell onboard? I flew last month on HA HNL-SMF, and snacks were not sold.
Quoting Kaukau (Reply 14): No snacks are currently sold o/b HA.
We rolled out "Ono Snacks" on all Trans-Pacific flights on 9/15. All snacks are sold for $5.00 and include macadamia nuts, trail mix, dove chocolates, twix bars, skittles, lifesaver gummies, and twizzlers. They are offered right after takeoff while we are renting Digeplayers and are available at all galleys during the flight. From all reports, sales have been very good!
Aloha,
HALFA
HNL-AKL Starts March 2013, HNL-SDJ starts June 2013, HNL-TPE Starts July 2013
Kaukau From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 106 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 2927 times:
Thank you for correcting me! I'm sorry I posted there are no snacks on HA!!! My last trans-Pac HA flight was 9/7. Next is 10/1! Why didn't HA e-mail me about this? I'm Pualani Platinum! We LOVE HA!!!!! Do you give them away for free in F?
HALFA From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1324 posts, RR: 17 Reply 17, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 2769 times:
Quoting Kaukau (Reply 16): Thank you for correcting me! I'm sorry I posted there are no snacks on HA!!! My last trans-Pac HA flight was 9/7. Next is 10/1! Why didn't HA e-mail me about this? I'm Pualani Platinum! We LOVE HA!!!!! Do you give them away for free in F?
No problem, I'm sure you had no way of knowing we were going to be selling snacks on our flights. In fact, we, the FA's of HA didn't really know we would be selling snacks on ALL flights this soon.
According to the memo I received recently, snacks will not be complimentary in F class and must be purchased in both cabins. The F class meal service is quite substantial though, and I wouldn't think anyone would still be hungry after eating a 4 course meal on a 5 hour flight!
And thank you very much for your kind words and your support of HA!!!
Aloha,
HALFA
HNL-AKL Starts March 2013, HNL-SDJ starts June 2013, HNL-TPE Starts July 2013
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 18, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 2673 times:
Quoting HALFA (Reply 17): No problem, I'm sure you had no way of knowing we were going to be selling snacks on our flights. In fact, we, the FA's of HA didn't really know we would be selling snacks on ALL flights this soon.
According to the memo I received recently, snacks will not be complimentary in F class and must be purchased in both cabins. The F class meal service is quite substantial though, and I wouldn't think anyone would still be hungry after eating a 4 course meal on a 5 hour flight!
Will HA still offer full meals in Y?
HA is smart doing the coupon thing, given that they might run headlong into legal issues if they didn't accept cash at all.
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TOLtommy From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3220 posts, RR: 4 Reply 20, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 2595 times:
Quoting Aloha73G (Reply 10): I think most airlines still accept cash. Hawaiian is one of the first I saw with CC readers and also the first one I am aware of that is cashless.
AirTran has used them for at least a year now.
Quoting Samurai 777 (Reply 11):
Is it possible that it's not only secutrity reasons, but also that HA doesn't want to deal with all that counterfeit cash that seems so rampant these days
That and the unfortunate pilferage by a very small minority of crewmembers.
DTWAGENT From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 1283 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (6 years 8 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2370 times:
If I was an F/A, I would love to handle just coupons or Credit Cards. Money is to easy to lose when it changes hands at the end of the flight.
Freedom747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (6 years 8 months 6 days ago) and read 2087 times:
Good to hear and good to know. If this trend spreads throughout the carriers in the U.S., it looks like the F/A won't be able to support their $300,000 mortgages anymore from the monies stolen from In-Flight sales. And, yes...even my beloved Delta Air Lines, too!!
25 HAL: Freedom747, this is not the place to fire an opening salvo of bashing. We try to be respectful on this forum and would appreciate it if you would sti
26 SkyHarborsHome: I assume if the card is denied once they transmit, they can simply look up your passenger information and even though I doubt they would have authori
27 TZTriStar500: TZ went cashless onboard several months ago.
28 Socal: Good heads up, moving to HNL on Nov 08, 2006.
29 Centrair: Sucks if you are Japanese and traveling in Hawaii...Japanese don't like using credit cards...thank god they are offering coupons. What would be nice i
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