Where will Hawaiian Airlines land next following tumultuous years that culminated in Alaska Airlines” acquisition offer.
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Where will Hawaiian Airlines land next following tumultuous years that culminated in Alaska Airlines” acquisition offer.
Good luck Alaska ! Hope everything goes smoothly with the merger.
Please No 737 Max for Hawaiian, first class on single-aisle aircraft is not so ‘first class’
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the more business opportunities arise for them (yes deep sea exploration would be huge too).
Either option will be painful for Hawaii. Embrace the suck or embrace a different kind of suck. Sad but true. Either innovate or go back in time. I don’t see any other options.
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I feel bad for Hawaiian Airlines. Their entire business relies on tourism. Sadly, during COVID-19, the state of Hawaii was in a balancing act. Should the State of Hawaii promote tourism at the expense of limited hospital logistics and medical availability?
This is the crux of the problem. Hawaii has limited land space, yet they have a very demanding tourism fan base and their politics can be polarizing. I would say that Hawaii must expand their medical facilities and expertise in order to continue “business as usual”. Otherwise, they need to undergo an entire see change of what it means to be Hawaii. Also it wouldn’t be a bad idea for Hawaii to embrace the TMT and NASA as a whole. The more Hawaii embraces STEM,
A hawaiian Alaska merger would make sense; both being top notch people first carriers.
HA service for the most part is superb. Have traveled HA exclusively for 15 years. Hope they can maintain
Aloha Spirit after merger.
The employees have been blind-sided….One thing I believe Hawaiian Airlines has not done is to talk to its union and All of its employees. Solutions often come from the people in the pits that do all the heavy lifting namely employees.
It takes dozens of employees to get one plane off the ground and it seems like the employees would be able to troubleshoot and come up with realistic solutions rather than leaving Hawaii.
I am a Alaska Airlines MVP Gold member. I very much look forward to the merger of Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines because as soon as it happens I plan to fly to many of the Hawaiian Airlines destinations in the Pacific
Ask mark (dunkerly) if he would be willing to come back and help. When Hawaiian was facing hard times in the past, wasn’t it mark who came on board and brought the company out of bankruptcy ? And from then on to the day he left, Hawaiian had a good record?
This sounds like management is an abject failure. Entire team needs go without their millions in severance.