3 thoughts on “New Services On Flights to Hawaii”

  1. I agree 100% with Judy and Robert. Paying a premium price for what used to be ‘standard’ seating, etc. does rub a person the wrong way. Especially vexing when we know record profits are being made by nickel and dime ing their customers. Hawaiian airlines is still the ONLY way we fly to Hawaii – but we liked Aloha Airlines a bit better. Too bad they are gone.

    On our last flight home – a Hawaiian basketball team was flying to the mainland for a game and it was very SAD to watch those poor guys doing contortion maneuvers just to get in and out of their tiny little seats. No one should have to SUFFER to fly. Sure, they were all quite tall, but had the seats not been re configured with GROSS PROFITS in mind – instead of customer comfort – it might not have been so painful for the players. It’s one of the few times I have been grateful to be short :0/

  2. Aloha, We just returned from visiting family on Oahu and flew Hawaiian. The flight attendants were very friendly and helpful and service carts were available at most times. Their free snack pack was pretty good and wish I could have gotten a handful. But, the “free” meal and wine were a different story. It was some kind of Asian chicken rice thing with salad, none of which was identifiable or edible. I thought at least the rice would be good – wrong. The cookie was great and while visiting the back, they gave me another one. The wine was so bad that my husband and his seat partner couldn’t even drink it. I know they are trying and it is very difficult to feed a plane full…but a simple make it yourself sandwich with fruit or applesauce in the little plastic containers would have been a 100% improvement. Just keep the cookies and forget the wine. I’d rather pay for a decent glass of wine. I must admit that I could be jaded in that I was fortunate enough to fly in the 60’s and have flown internationally. Mahalo for your newsletter.

  3. My family focused most of its vacation spending on Hawaii this year with twelve round-trip airfares purchased. Airfare already consumes too much of our vacation budget! Being given the opportunity to purchase “upgrades” for items previously included in the fare (luggage transport, pillows, blankets,movies,audio programming,etc) while fuel costs have come down (thereby further increasing profits) doesn’t make me giddy over the aforementioned opportunities. I haven’t done any measurements, but I strongly suspect that the extra space afforded by Premium Seating does nothing more than selectively provide what used to be standard seating for all economy passengers.

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