Twelve Hawaii flight diversions in the past 60 days.
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This is becoming highly abnormal and I’m sure it’s eating into the airlines revenue.
Speculation about why planes are diverted is troubling since speculation suggests lack of knowledge.
This is very disturbing. I’m wondering if the mechanical diversions are from lack of sufficient staff to thoroughly inspect the planes between the crafts flights.
On September 15 our flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles had to return to Honolulu about 20 minutes into the flight because of mechanical issues. We were on Hawaiian Airlines
Kevin C. A $60 voucher lol… how generous of them!! Wow, I would have expected much more compensation:(
Like everyone else (I’m sure), I hate reading about these flight diversions to Hawaii. I try to push back those worrisome thoughts when booking or before travel and I guess it’s just the chance one takes when traveling; however I just wish these events weren’t on the rise.
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Upon returning to LAX, there were dozens of fire emergency personnel all lined up with their sirens on. A lot of us on the plane were surprised and realized it was more serious than we thought.
As we got off the plane after a 15 minute intermission of waiting, they had announced back at the terminal that there was a mechanical issue and that the part that needed to be changed wasn’t at LAX.
Our flight is rescheduled to 1:45am.
I would like to give credit to HA and how they’ve handled everything thus far. They provided all passengers a hotel room at the Sheraton at LAX until our rescheduled flight.
My only concern now is — I hope we aren’t taking the same plane!
Now that I’m off the plane and things are a little less chaotic (it was a little nerve wracking), I can elaborate a bit more…
About 45 minutes into the flight, just when food and beverage service was starting, the pilot had come on and announced that we would be returning back to LA. There was a “safety issue that would prevent us from making the long journey to the islands, and so when some parameters aren’t met you just have to call it and turn around.”
The flight attendants were surprised to hear it as well. I am kind of bothered that we never got specific details on what exactly went wrong but I suppose they aren’t obligated to disclose that info.
*character limit is coming up, I’ll continue on another post*
I don’t know about any diversions but wanted to report that we just returned from Maui. We flew Southwest airlines from San Jose direct to Maui OGG. Both flights were smooth and perfect! I was a tad skeptical after reading about some of the Southwest air planes. But all was well and very smooth. I do wonder why there have been so many diversions lately though??
Is there anyway you can privde flight number for the Alaska Airlines flights?