Top 8 on-board safety thoughts. What we think flights may look like soon.
25 thoughts on “How Will Flights to Hawaii be Made Safe Again”
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Top 8 on-board safety thoughts. What we think flights may look like soon.
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I’m trying to get to Hawaii to see my son that is in the marines it’s killing me. I hope everything starts opening up. Hawaiii still has a 14 day quar antine is that correct
A self-pricking anti body test comes on the market, which will display within 2 minutes (has a similar screen to a pregnancy test and is claimed to 92% accurate) if a person has had the vi rus in the past and currently has immunity. It would seem feasible that this will be a neccesity test to take before being authorized to board a plane. In addition to the security check there will probably also be a temperature check and request to see a certificate that within x hours of the flight, you are not carrying the vi rus.
I realize that most of us are very concerned about our health and safety while flying. But just as important is our fiscal health and the HUGE ticket price increases we see going forward.
We checked Hawaiian for flight prices for early 2021 only to find ticket prices nearly double what they were last year. Same with using dollars and points. I even emailed Hawaiian Airlines asking them to ‘re think’ their substantial increases. At current prices, (and no doubt there will be increases in lodging and food after all this settles down), we may have made our last trip to Hawaii.
This situation has affected us all fiscally. If airlines price out the ‘regular folks’ – will there be enough tourism in future to bring the economy back in Hawaii?
Appreciated all the interesting comments from everyone. THANKS Beat of Hawaii! :0)
Hi Colleen.
Thank you. It seems too early to know how next year will play out in every regard. So, selfishly, we still hope to see you here in Hawaii.
Aloha.
Airlines will need to reconsider the practice of reconfiguring planes to cram more and more people in – fewer passengers, more social distance, higher prices. The price of safety. For decades we have all been subjected at one time or another to sitting next to someone coughing and sneezing through the entire flight and desperately attempting to not breathe “their air”. Impossible to do. Airports need to screen people prior to security screening and prior to arriving at crowded gate and boarding lines for viral symptoms. They either need to be not allowed to board a plane or required to wear an N95 mask supplied by the airport/airlines. It needs to be a new world of airline travel, one that actually considers the well being of the passengers.
First comment was an oops. But I agree that there needs to be more effort made on behalf of the flying public to keep us healthy while flying. It wouldn’t take a whole lot.
Thank you for the useful information in your bulletins.
I know that this may be difficult to answer, but is it possible that I may be able to still fly from Ireland to Honolulu in September, or should I be cancelling my flights.
Many thanks.
Hi John.
Thank you. Our sense is that if you can wait another month or so to decide, we should know a lot more.
Aloha
Thank you for the informative updates. I do have a question…my mother has been in hospice in CA since January. I live in Hawaii and had to cancel plans to see her in March. I read that non-essential flights have now been stopped until June or later. If I need to make an emergency trip to see her, is it possible to book a flight, and what documentation would I need?
Hi Cathy.
Sorry to hear about your situation. Yes you can travel. We are not sure that any documentation is needed. Best bet is to check with the airline directly.
Aloha.
We just flew back to the mainland (OAK) last night on our own “private 737 jet”. We were the only two passengers … no issue about a middle seat 🙂 We thought the gate attendance announcing our private jet was ready to for embarking was a chuckle. another chuckle was our boarding passes were A22 & 23 LOL! On board, were 4 additional crew members in their attire and all had on fresh orchid leis … nice touch SWA. What they didn’t have on, including the two pilots/two cabin working attendants were face masks. We did have ours on and also new gloves. Of course there was no service on the flight, not even bottled water offered. There was a trash collection at the end of the flight. The plane looked and smelled super clean yet we still followed our protocol of wiping down everything with our disinfecting wipes. We flew from KOA to HNL and then HNL to OAK — because the KOA to OAK no longer existed. What we noticed sitting in the HNL airport, SWA area was fire fighters in their hazmat garb armed with temperature wands and clipboards … there were a couple of flight arrivals with perhaps 4-8 passengers on the flights.
Another thing we want to comment on: We had been in the islands since early March – the employees at the last two timeshare resorts we stayed at thanked us because the minimal guests allowed them to stay employed. We did have to write the management of the last two weeks properties to kindly consider returning/waiving the “resort amenities daily fees” since everything was closed up and not available…. even propane tanks were pulled from the BBQ’s the last three nights we were there (not nice, especially since social distancing wasn’t an issue with only two guest rooms occupied out of 200 unit property). Happy to report that the General Managers were happy to refund the resort amenity fees in full — that was the “right thing to do” as we politely pointed out, and understanding that these are difficult and unusual circumstances. We appreciate the extra caution and yet keeping the aloha spirit everyone displayed to us as frequent guests to the islands.