Can Hawaiian Air help move the State of Hawaii forward?
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As much as your suggestions to solve the problems of Hawaiian make good sense, there are underlying complications that can make a simple solution very unlikely. The airline business is extremely complicated, even during good times, so much that none us will ever know what goes on behind closed doors that we view as an obvious answer. Federal, state, and local politics, regulations, and ordinances all make for an uphill battle that can get in the way of what we think is an easy solution. We all hope they can get past this tough period as they have done in the past.
It is baffling to say the least. 2,000 good paying jobs, down the toilet! The ignorance and lack of common sense is baffling! 50 million dollars a day generated by tourist. 94 percent of the positive covid test are residents. Now here are some facts. Tourism comprises 23% of the economy and 216,000 jobs! So the state is excluding the people who comprise 23% of the economy (tourism) to POTENTIALLY exclude 6% of the covid cases! Now throw in the fact that 100% of those 6% potential covid carriers can be required to come into the islands COVID FREE (i.e. PCR negative test within 48 hours). I am no doctor, but i am thinking that those that provide 23% of the states economy could easily and safely be imported with a miniscule chance (less than .5% of cases) of bringing covid with them! Throw in the fact that only 6% of the deaths, which i think is our major concern, come from those with Covid only, and you really have absolutely no logical reason to keep from opening up to tourist! This could happen next week! require an upload on the new app of a negative pcr test on the new app, within 48 hours, and there you go! if those kind of odds of tourist infecting the island, require another negative test with after 3 days of arrival. This is NOT rocket science, just takes a leader, and governor Ige should be impeached or recalled if he doesnt get off his butt and save some jobs!
At boarding gate tests would help. However, COVID in the human body is not detectable by tests until the 3rd to 5th day of its presence. So, boarding gate testing would not eliminate COVID from being brought to Hawaii by some passengers.
Just one question, with all the crazy things going on in Hawaii can someone tell me what Senator Mazie Hirono has done for our state? We’re sinking here and as far as I can see looking this up she seems to have gone silent. I could be wrong (please forgive me if I am) but I don’t see her doing anything for her state except to attack the President.
Thank you so much BOH for keeping us updated.
Hi Paula.
We have not heard much from her it seems, compared with Ed Case, Brian Schatz, and others. Not sure why.
Aloha.
I just got to the BI from San Diego….what a Cluster-F getting through the gauntlet of tracking and tracing forms. 50 people on the plane…10 min minimum each to complete entry process. First in HNL…then again in KOA. Application is not intuitive….does not retain information from one entry to the next…I see NO WAY to process the volume of tourists needed to stabilize the State economy and rebuild finances.
Hawaiian Airlines can’t openly criticize or disagree with any of policies or quarantines because the local and state government will retaliate. Any critical comment will come back to haunt Hawaiian for years. Retaliation is very much a normal governmental practice in Hawaii.
The politicians need to get their act together. Over the past do yrs, some business partners, and I visited the Big Island to purchase some vacant land to build vacation units. The red tape – coupled with the blatant hostility toward vacation rental owners, we decided to go to a more business-friendly island. We settled for St. Croix.
Now, with this pandemic that seems to have staying power, the Hawaiian economy is going to be decimated. Tourism is going to be at an all-time low, and that’s the island’s lifeline.
We visited St.Croix 20 years ago and loved it. Beautiful island. Great Rum! Would love to return. The way things look – we will probably not be visiting Hawaii again any time soon. It will be a disaster by the time this has all played out that will require years and years to recover from. We haven’t seen the worst of this yet. It is still coming. ALL the airlines are planning huge lay offs soon. It just gets worse and worse. Vacationing will probably be the least of our worries very soon.
There is no more money. Open up and move on like Mexico has done. Eventually that is what is going to happen. The vaccine won’t change anything. If the flu shot really worked there would be no flu. The covid vaccine won’t stop the spread. Time to wake up and get back to normal. Tourism is dying all over the world. Hawaii, the Caribbean, Las Vegas, cruiselines and ports they stop in like Alaska, theme parks, airlines and most hotels. People are not staying home, they are driving around their countries living off unemployment because the essential workers are still working and have been the whole time. But the economy is hurting and people are losing their jobs permanently because this can’t go on.
Interesting comments. Going into a new market is never profitable for at least a year typically longer, thus increasing cash burn rate.
Hi I’m not sure what the answer is for Hawaiian Air and the State of Hawaii. I do know that someone needs to step forward and make a decision before anymore of the island people loose their jobs, homes and more importantly their ability to care for their families. Please someone in a responsibly caring position step forward and save our communities. Mahalo
Hi Tricia.
Thanks.
Aloha.