Take notice and act quickly if you plan to fly interisland this week. Interisland Southwest Hawaii flights are canceled on all ten routes.
Take notice and act quickly if you plan to fly interisland this week. Interisland Southwest Hawaii flights are canceled on all ten routes.
Planes & man power needed on mainland. to get people out of Hawaii back to mainland. It’s a mess and SW needs to do a reset. Sad it means doing this and more. It can’t take on new passengers when it has passengers stranded everywhere. I’m part of being caught in this mess. finally made it into the USA after 4 days delay now rented car to get home. 20 hr drive. grateful for a rental car. 2 luggage pieces are 😞 lost. SW employees are super employees they are working hard. It’s an upper corp issue they do need to be held accountable but Gen staff plz send a woo hoo to them. They are working their butts off even as they too are displaced – some like us with no lodging and they are still helping us. Govt needs to step in to help get people home
I’m sure the execs will reward themselves with huge bonuses and and buy back more stock to increase their bonus while laying off the staff. They actually said anyone calling in sick would be fired that’s how you run a business lol.
Mandy, what would you like the gov’t to do if they “step in to help get people home?”
Aloha guys – SWA hasn’t “cancelled” those flights. They have stopped selling seats on all flights systemwide until they can clean up the mess. They don’t want people booking seats on flights that might be cancelled the next day. Once they determine what flights CAN be operated, the seats on those flights will be re-opened for sale.
FYI, the FAA says it will investigate Southwest’s high number of cancellations, including the Hawaii flights.
Thanks for your ongoing coverage of the commercial aviation fiascos with the Islands.
I am on sw 1183 lih to hnl today- 12/27- just arrived hnl. So far my return flihht tomorrow is operating
I’m just waiting for the lawsuits against SWA. What a mess. Really? what’s the point of cancelling inter island flights? Terrible move on SWA’s part. Many people I know are stranded all over the country because of SWA and they are having to rent cars and drive hours and days to their final destinations.
I don’t think this is true. While you cannot buy a ticket on a SWA flight, if you already have a ticket, the flights are still flying
I’m assuming they need all possible man power to fix the mess they have with all the current stranded passengers… Is my guess anyway!
My kids flight from LIH to HNL on southwest just took off so some flights are going
Why is SWA doing this? Planes need on mainland? I heard the had big problems on mainland due to weather. Is that Ffecting Hawaii. Weird.
Carolyn SWA operates their inter island flights from the mainland. They are dispatched from a mainland dispatch office with no local knowledge, the airplanes are from mainland flights that have just arrived from the west coast and the crews are from the mainland and only here for a day to fly what can easily be their first time in Hawaii.
It’s a completely different deal from HA’s full time inter island operation.
Actually, while it is true, that all of the aircraft that do inter island flights also do mainland to Hawaii flights as well, but the way Southwests crew system works, there are many local Hawaii residents who work for Southwest and are able to trade with flight attendants coming from the mainland and work the interisland flights. So there are many local residents working interisland flights. It’s not all mainland personal as you suggest.
Carl, not sure you caught it but I said “could easily be their first time”, not all. But the bottom line is SWA is a remote part time inter island operation whereas HA is a full time highly experienced inter island operation. They are based here, they have spare crews immediately available and have spare airplanes and parts on hand. As the recent Mauna Loa eruption and now this weather event shows, there is a distinct advantage to having a local airline.…and of course when you fly HA you are supporting the Hawaii economy, SWA ticket revenue goes to Dallas.
John , you also said … “and the crews are from the mainland” … which is what my reply was about. There is no argument that Hawaiian has the edge with local bases, more local personnel, etc. I worked for Hawaiian several years ago. I am not knocking Hawaiian, I just think, as a new comer to the islands, Southwest is at least giving options, and some needed competition. Also, Southwest does employ many local residents as ground personnel, and those jobs do benefit the local economy.
What’s the over/under for how long Southwest will last?
Over 100%. Hawaiian is almost done. Haven’t made a profit for years
Nothing could be further from the truth than that Joe. Safe to say you you are pretty clueless about HA’s balance sheet, Amazon contract in the works or the fact that they were very profitable leading up to Covid. International is their bread and butter and Japan is starting to open up nicely.
Joe, I will say you have done a nice job of highlighting the issue of the SWA supporters that make throwing stones at a Hawaii institution as a means to try to promote themselves. People who love Hawaii don’t take to well to people not from here throwing stones at people from here. Pretty much the opposite of what Aloha is.