When so many flights go missing, it makes us wonder what’s going on. Here are the potential scenarios with this upcoming Hawaiian Airlines flight suspension.
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When so many flights go missing, it makes us wonder what’s going on. Here are the potential scenarios with this upcoming Hawaiian Airlines flight suspension.
Here’s why we aren’t flying Hawaiian anymore. Our flight from Oakland to Hilo via Honolulu Monday 3/4 was cancelled less than 24 hours before flight time. No reason given but the flight inbound to Oakland was cancelled too so that would have been the plane we would have used. I looked on flightradar24 and the plane in question was used on another flight so in my mind it doesn’t look like a malfunction but more like a business decision. They offered flying the next day or wanted to know if we could fly from another airport. Some flights offered were 12 hours and 3 planes. Everything was refunded but that’s it. No sorry, no discounts no points. This is the second time we had problems like this.
Simple fact is you can come up with stories like that about all the airlines. Don’t have to belabor all the many SWA problems. The big department store airlines (DAL,AMR,UAL) service has certainly gone downhill. Not to mention both plane manufacturers. Boeing or Airbus? People pick one and throw stones at the other. Welcome to the new world order where everything has degraded, or appears to anyway thanks to the internet. I’ll still choose Hawaiian or Alaska as the best service to Hawaii and I said that long ago agreeing with Jeff and Rob when they made that point.
Same issue here. Cancelled our SFO to Maui flight for 3/23 late afternoon after we had checked in and paid for bags. I had booked 4 months prior with miles and had to shell out $5,800 in unexpected cost and split the family up to get there. No reason given, no accountability.
Oh. I do not like sudden change. Consistency is king.I travel to Hawaii enough and never used their airline yet. It is more pricy then Southwest. They seem dedicated but in the aviation world who ever fails someone else takes over. Its always been a rollercoaster.
I have noticed Alaska Airlines has dropped a lot of their nonstop flights out of San Jose, Ca to Maui. We have been flying that route every summer for several years. When I called they just said it depends on the time of year. I asked about a couple of other times and it was the same. The nonstop was only a couple of times a week. What happened?
HA cancelled our flight on Tuesday February 13, 2024 at LAX to Kona. Of course the runway in Kona was being repaired. However, we got mixed responses from the desk agents. Some said it was mechanical others said it was the runway. They said there were no flights from the Westcoast to and airport in the state of Hawaii. How could this be the case? We tried the following day and Again… HA said there are no flights. They ended up switching us to United the following day. That’s 48 hours stuck in LA. Made me sour!
I suspect a clue is in the arrival of the Dreamliner. HA will be focusing less on high density, low yield markets into more premium international and mainland destinations. Safe to say the brand will always be a major player in the west coast market, but the greatest opportunities lie in the new destinations the 787 opens up.
Just a quick note:
In response to your “Choice #2” question.. Hawaiian Airlines have 18 Airbus “neos” in the fleet which are currently involved in this Airbus Quagmire.
-A Hui Hou
It’s a good thing that I hardly ever travel outside of Hawaii or even go to a neighbor island these days. Prices are higher and too many fees to whack you in the wallet no matter what airline you fly. Plus you have questionable aircraft safety issues… A 321 Neo (bad engines) and shoddy built 737-Max’s (computer problems, blown fake door)… hmmm… Boeing 717 seems to be the most reliable but that is getting long in the tooth with probably thousands of take off an landing cycles since 2001. Safer to just stay home.
Unfortunately HA is not the only airline cutting flights to OGG. AS has cut daily LAX-OGG-LAX down to only once weekly on Saturdays only thru June at least. Before 2024 this roundtrip ran daily.
$175! We left OGG on 2/16 1145pm to get diverted to HNL at 2/17 220am. They booked me on UA to SFO @ 8am. Arrived in SFO @4Pm only to leave on AS @9Pm to arrive into LAS @1130pm… 24 hrs later. My flt back to OGG was on 2/19 @ 11am
$175 I don’t think so