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36 thoughts on “Breaking: 4 More Hawaii Flight Diversions Include Hawaiian & United Today”

  1. I was on this flight. Another passenger told me some guy took apart the smoke detector in the bathroom and we flew back to have him arrested.

  2. By your listing of Carriers and issues listed it looks like Both Alaskan and Hawaiian are racking up mechanical problems often, are the issues caused by not enough time for proper maintenance and/or repairs? This will only bear itself out, God Forbid, when something more major occurs! Let’s not give SWA any less of a look here, they have at least one diversion that we are not certain of as of today. Airplanes need the Scheduled Maintenance to be done in a timely manner to ensure Safety and Smooth Piloting, they also have Critical Parts that need to be changed when it’s time. Repair Issues can make themselves known at any time and it’s Critical to have mechanics take care of it on the spot! Maybe more questions need to be asked?

  3. Hi Maleko.

    Thanks. The reality is that virtually all aircraft are now twin engine so it’s either that or travel by ship.

    Aloha.

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  4. Have we always tracked fight diversions for mechanical or other emergencies? For comparative purposes please compare to total number of flights for that period per airline and similar data for pre Covid periods. Are we planning on reporting all auto accidents per island?

  5. I fly almost exclusively on American. Glad to see they are not on the list. Their 777-200’s are older planes but seem to be in excellent condition, from a cabin perspective. Don’t want to jinx it but been flying back and forth for over 50+ years with never a di

  6. I was on UA1509. The guy boarded and tried to take an Economy Plus seat (22B) in front of me. Interestingly he had no bags and was pretty shifty. The lady assigned to that seat came and made him go back to his seat 46K. 1.5 hours into the flight he got up to the door 2 left lav. Soon there were ~4 crew around the lav and moments later he stumbled out and fell to the ground. The crew were inspecting the lav with their flashlights and I saw one crew with the smoke detector panel in the galley. They eventually got him buckled into 16F and you could hear him shouting and cursing the whole way back to SFO. Surprisingly he got off the plane with no resistance (of course to the tune of other passengers booing him) and we got $60 vouchers.

  7. Our flight on Hawaiian #24 on 9/15 returned to gate after takeoff (20 min) to unload passengers moved to extra legroom and would not go back to original seats.

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