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  1. Linda D.

    This all sounds all good however, recently I flew to Maui from Sacramento on Hawaiian. I was given a wristband at the airport in Sacramento prior to boarding…I was thrilled until I arrived in Maui where it took forever to get off the plane. I couldn’t understand the delay until I made it to the front of the line and there was someone…yes ONE taking the temperature of every passenger. When I flew Southwest to Maui in January it was a much quicker process as they have you walk a distance in the terminal to arrive at the check out location…NO WAITING. They just kept you moving. It was great!
    Thanks for keeping everyone updated. I frequent Maui and it is helpful knowing what is going on. Linda

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  3. Wendy M.

    Mahalo for the update on this. It’s encouraging that the pre-clear program is expanding. I’m disappointed, though, to not see American Airlines on the list. Do you happen to have any idea if/when AA will follow suit and offer this as well?

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    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Wendy.

      Yes, we were surprised by that too. We couldn’t find anything about them participating.

      Aloha.

  5. Amy A

    Does United offer Pre-Clear in Houston at IAH? I could not locate any information on United’s website as to whether this service is offered at this airport.

    1. Bernadette T

      Those of us who have been vaccinated and go to the mainland do we still need to be retested to get back home to. Hawaii.

      Thank you

    1. Andrea B

      Dear Rhea, as of right now in order to travel to Hawaii a person must have a negative test result. It isn’t official yet but Hawaii is working on vaccine passport.

  8. Geoffrey D

    What is the policy going to be in regards to Pre-Clear for those that have been vaccinated?

    1. Ted B

      Ditto. (also) What is or will be with status of the vaccination cards (with 2 dated vac entries)?

      1. Ted B

        edit sorry.

        Ditto. (also) What is or will be the status of the vaccination “cards” we were issued/carry (with 2 dated vac entries)?

        1. Andrea B

          Hi Ted, for people who don’t want to be vaccinated they will still have the option for testing.

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      2. Andrea B

        Dear Ted, we have to wait for the vaccine passport to become official first, then we will know everything else.

    2. Bob Y

      As off this point in time vaccination cards are of no help in the arrival process. We are hoping by June we will be able to use the vaccination cards for entry in lieu of COVID testing or quarantining from the mainland.

  9. Hal

    We just returned from 2 weeks on the Big Island. Getting set up to go (testing, Safe travels) was bit of work as we were flying out on a Wednesday, which precluded a lot of the available tests. But, Alaska had the airport experience well set-up. On arrival we were quickly moved through for our arrival test and sent on our way. System worked well for us.

  10. Angie S

    Aloha!

    We are currently in Maui for a couple weeks and we did receive or pre travel wristbands from ONT airport before we boarded but still had to go through a clearance line at OGG – we had to be given a ticket (think raffle ticket) with the number cleared in our party to pass through the section before leaving the terminals. The security team asked to see this ticket before letting us pass through. Unsure what this was about – but it didn’t seem to matter that we had wristbands. But the wristband clearance did help when we had a layover in HNL.

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