Oh wow. Given HA's reliance on flying Japanese tourists to Hawaiʻi, the fact that they're returning any of their HND slots speaks volumes about how dire things are for them.
Jump to postI'd expect that Alan Mulally is glad that he left when he did considering what he would've had to put up with from everyone else in management, even though he probably cries himself to sleep whenever he sees Boeing in the news these days.
Jump to postI see a WN flight (WN1451) from the mainland diverted over to the Honolulu. I guess not as easy to accommodate it on short notice at Hilo or something. ITO doesn't have the gate space to take everyone diverting from KOA, nor is there hotel space in Hilo, nor is there transportation capacity to move...
Jump to postLooks like DL axed two Maui services. New MSP-OGG dropped before launch, and ATL-OGG resumption canceled. I wonder why this happened? The tourism to the island should rebound by this winter? Maui arrival numbers have tanked hard since the Lahaina fire; people just aren't interested in visiting righ...
Jump to postMesa didn't collude with HA. What happened was that Mesa was able to obtain nonpublic financial information from both HA and AQ as a potential investor in their respective Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, then turned around and used that information to create a business plan for Go!. HA got a $52M sett...
Jump to postActually, it very much is. The term Southwest Effect was first coined after new customers were brought to markets that previously didn't have them. They have been attributed to increasing the passenger count in most markets they fly to. I'm sure that today other carriers (ULCC) have been doing the ...
Jump to postThe bitch is the drive between OGG & Lahaina. Not exactly a freeway. Route 30 is a mere 2-lane road, and very winding in several places. Taking your ro-ro idea...they ought to build a temporary dock right at Lahaina. Too bad the Kapalua/West Maui airport can't take large cargo aircraft; it's ru...
Jump to postHA has discontinued LIH-OAK until December 2023. Hopefully this is due to the A321NEO issues (OGG-LAS is suspended month of august too) LIH-OAK will completely suspended beginning Sept. 6 because of the GTF issues. HNL-SJC and OGG-SJC also have partial suspensions for the same reason. ( Hawaii News...
Jump to postI'm seeing HA flying an extra 9 OGG-HNL flights today (Thursday), including one flight that departed OGG at 2 AM, for a total of 35 (!) flights. A handful of flights from HNL to other islands were cancelled to accommodate extra OGG flights (1x HNL-LIH-HNL, 2x HNL-KOA-HNL, and 2x HNL-ITO-HNL by my co...
Jump to postYep, was closed for about a half-hour before reopening. Seems it reopened shortly after I posted here.
https://twitter.com/dothawaii/status/16 ... 0594626560
OGG is closed as of a half-hour ago due to smoke from a brush fire near the airport.
https://twitter.com/dothawaii/status/16 ... 7530860544
HA - I think they’d move an HNL route to OGG (daily or sub-daily) The only other airport in Hawaiʻi with a customs facility is KOA, so any international flights by HA (whether from HND or anywhere else without a preclearance facility) would be to either HNL or KOA. HDOT building a customs and inter...
Jump to postI realize that there are hold bars on taxiway K to hold short of 4L but it's almost a natural instinct to have your aircraft completely exit the runway you just landed on before stopping. 4R and 4L are very closely-spaced and I doubt there is enough room for a 777 to hold short of 4L on K and still...
Jump to postSnoqualmie and Steven’s passes over the Cascades have been closed for most of the last week, western Washington has been pounded by winter storms plus multiple atmospheric rivers, they probably didn’t drive all the way to Seattle because they couldn’t. I’ve flown from Wenatchee to Seattle before on...
Jump to postWhat's happening with their Hawai'ian interisland flights? Southwest sucks. Btw, there is no okina when you use Hawaiian as a plural word. Id think interisland operated with the crews that actually made it over the pond. They fly the same pairs as a crew, I believe. Interisland flights have been do...
Jump to postTomorrow (Tuesday) is going to be bad for everyone at SEA...not just AS. Brace yourselves! Can confirm, was supposed to fly home SEA-OGG-HNL with HA tomorrow, SEA-OGG flight was cancelled and I successfully rebooked to Friday. I'm just happy I'm staying with family instead of having to find a hotel...
Jump to postShould be doable; I went on a day trip from Oahu to Big Island a couple months ago (HNL-ITO) and didn't have any issues with checking in on my phone. Might've been a one-off hiccup on their end.
Jump to postFrom an FAA press release dated yesterday: The FAA alleges that Rhoades: ⋅ Failed to maintain Safety Management System records; address issues the FAA found with its general operations manual; conduct proper safety risk management when addressing discrepancies in its aircraft loading, weig...
Jump to postDoes anyone have any info on why ANA flew their A380s here this past week? JA381A operated NH183/184 on Tuesday, and JA382A flew home earlier today. (What's also weird is that I think JA382A overnighted here Friday night, since NH184 arrived yesterday, but NH183 didn't leave until today.)
Jump to postThe helicopter was not likely sitting on the pad, engines running and ready to go. While it would have fueled, prepped and ready, the crew would have to scramble, board, go through their startup and head to the crash site. Probably a 10-15 minute process before initiation of the search itself. By t...
Jump to postFinally, was the Transair 732 ETOPS certified? I guess it wouldn't have made a difference in this flight since the events took place immediately after takeoff and right close by the field. Also,. their flights seem to be fairly short hops. I'm just curious though. Transair only flies interisland, s...
Jump to post"Flight that crashed in 1985 spotted landing in Narita Airport 35 years later" (SoraNews 24) Tweet by @m3600 with screenshots from FlightRadar 24 Apparently, someone was doing transponder maintenance on a 77W at NRT on the night of August 5, and happened to use "JL0123" as a tes...
Jump to postHaven't seen this mentioned, but according to HNL RareBirds, HA has brought LN 136 (N594HA) back into revenue service due to delays in receiving new A321s (fallout from the most recent PW1000G snag.)
Jump to postHA press release: https://newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com/releases/boeing-787-9-dreamliner-to-join-hawaiian-airlines-fleet Hawaiian Airlines has executed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for the purchase of 10 Boeing 787-9 aircraft with purchase rights for an additional 10 aircraft, the airline an...
Jump to postWere they as updated as the 763ERs or A332/A333s? How bad was the fuel economy on these? And lastly why did Hawaiian keep this aircraft for so long? I think the 763 retired before that was in 2015 so that means that this was the only original 763 in the fleet for 3 years. Was this done because of a...
Jump to postThe question is who will step in to fill the void. There's no significant void to speak of; WP had about 5-8% of the interisland market share before Friday, which is a small fraction of what Aloha had when they shut down. Whoever is running the res system seems to have quit their job. No HX/TK/XM m...
Jump to postWP is holding on to the planes for now, but it's clear at this point that the bankruptcy stay is not going to protect them. From today's Star-Advertiser : Attorney Thomas Kreller told federal Bankruptcy Judge Robert Faris on Friday that Island Air continues to operate the three leased Bombardier Q40...
Jump to postWon't have details from bankruptcy court until the Saturday Star-Ad lands tomorrow morning, but they did run an update today that mentions that WP's leadership hasn't officially acknowledged their fleet is down to 3 Q400s. Island Air executives declined this week to disclose the number of aircraft r...
Jump to postLooks like there's a real possibility that the end of WP will happen sooner rather than later. WP had an agreement with the lessor to defer lease payments that was amended as recently as Sept. 15. The lessor apparently sent their repo people after WP allegedly breached the amended agreement earlier ...
Jump to postLease terminations don't happen overnight, They happen as result of payment delinquency, or other dispute over terms. According to today's Star-Advertiser , that's exactly the case (and the lessor had people in HNL to repossess the Q400s): Island Air was $4.4 million behind on lease payments to Dub...
Jump to postThis is depressing. The Q400s entering service was a sign of hope, but if they've been losing money for 4 straight years, it doesn't sound good (albeit not surprising.)
WP is basically the only thing standing between HA and complete and total control of the interisland air market right now.
ha763 wrote:I guess the resolution was passed last year.
The official website for HNL still calls it "Honolulu International Airport," and there's nothing on the Hawaii DOT Airports Division website (or the Governor's website ) about renaming HNL. Say what you will about the state government, I think they'd have mentioned something somewhere abo...
Jump to postFrom the Honolulu Star-Advertiser today : The parent of the state’s largest carrier said today it also will be adding two additional Boeing 717s to its fleet so that it can increase service during peak times beginning early next year on its interisland routes. I wonder where they'll be getting them ...
Jump to postHA flies <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym>-PPT only on Saturdays. HA481 departs <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">...
Jump to postHawaii News Now is <a href="http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/31967168/hawaiian-airlines-awarded-2nd-route-from-haneda" target="_blank">reporting this morning</a> that USDOT has awarded one <acronym title="Tokyo - Haneda International (HND / RJTT), Japan">HND</acronym> slot to <acronym title="Hawai...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NOLAWildcat" class="quote" target="_blank">NOLAWildcat</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>My understanding is that the tourism...
Jump to postHawaii doesn't have any executive aircraft for the Governor, although (IMO) there's a case for one. David Ige normally flies HA, and uses the Hawaii Air National Guard in emergencies.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TrijetsRMissed" class="quote" target="_blank">TrijetsRMissed</a> (<a href="#34" class="quote">Reply 34</a>):<br/><i>Probably 15 more years at be...
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Jump to postIsn't 581 one of the 763ERs that HA owns outright (with 580 and 582)? Those will be the last 763s to leave HA's fleet.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/717atOGG" class="quote" target="_blank">717atOGG</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>Has Island Air taken delivery of their Q...
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