Last week, Hawaiian announced some additional flights, which coincides with some changes in the carrier’s fleet. The airline is currently all-Boeing, but that will change next year when the first of three leased A330s will arrive. The airline has also ordered A330s and A350s from Airbus.
The airline will be doing some additional flying during the summer season. San Diego-Maui will be launched again – Hawaiian did operate route in summer 2008, but did not this year. Meanwhile, the airline said it would be adding an additional flight between Los Angeles and Honolulu with one of the new A330s, though at this point, it is listed as a 767-300 in Hawaiian’s timetable.
But one of the interesting moves is new daily summer service between Oakland and Maui. ATA and Aloha operated this route before they went bust, but this year Alaska announced it would start operating the route four times a week starting in November. The new flight from Hawaiian complements its existing flight from Oakland to Honolulu.
Clearly, Hawaiian thinks there’s more demand in the market, and a daily 767-300 is a lot of capacity compared to Alaska’s four 737-800s a week. It will be interesting to see how this one shakes out, at least for the summer – Hawaiian’s flight starts on June 18 and runs through September 6. I wonder if Alaska will decide if it’s worthwhile to add any additional capacity in this market.
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