Beat of Hawaii Blog

One airline is reshaping how mainland travelers reach Hawaii, adding routes, boosting frequencies, and moving into markets Hawaiian has already left. Delta just brought Boston back, pushed New York to daily, and is building itself deeper into Hawaii’s most important mainland air links.

New details from the Kauai press conference reveal the final hour off Kalalau Beach, including rescue effort, victims, and Airborne’s decision to suspend operations.

The Kauai helicopter company visitors chose for its rescue background and 4.9 Google rating, crashed off Kalalau Beach.

For years, an empty row on a Hawaii flight felt like the one lucky break. Now that same space is being packaged, padded, and sold back to you.

Hawaii’s new loyalty program was just named best in America. Here’s what that ranking left out, including what Alaska told its own investors.

Kauai’s biggest parking lot at Poipu was underwater Sunday, and cars kept coming anyway. On an island with one highway and almost no room left to grow, that is starting to look like the future.

Hawaii travelers have more at stake in the JetBlue sale story than anyone is saying. Who buys it could change how you fly to the islands and what your miles are worth.

Airlines have better data than anyone on who books Hawaii and what they will tolerate. When one rolled out its best new domestic aircraft for flights almost exactly as long as yours, Hawaii was not the route getting the upgrade.