When three Hawaii flights to/from San Diego, all experienced flight diversions crossing the Pacific. What causes these flight diversions?

Within 48-Hours, 3 Alaska Air Hawaii Flights Divert Over Pacific

When three Hawaii flights to/from San Diego, all experienced flight diversions crossing the Pacific. What causes these flight diversions?

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86 thoughts on “Within 48-Hours, 3 Alaska Air Hawaii Flights Divert Over Pacific”

  1. Saturday 8-13-22 our flight from Oahu to LAX was routed further North. We came across the Anacapa Islands. The pilot announced the change prior to take off but didn’t mention why

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  2. We were an hour into our Alaska San Jose-Lihue flight, and it seemed a bit louder than usual. Turns out they couldn’t close the door completely,and so we diverted back to the mainland.

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  3. Booked September flight to celebrate 66th wedding anniversary. Always fly Alaska. Confident the crew will always do the right thing.

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  4. Flights 806 and 9201 were both operated by the same aircraft, N564AS, a 737-800. This has me speculating that flight 806 diverted back to HNL due to mechanical, and the next day they decided to ferry the plane without passengers to San Diego (i.e. the special 9xxx flight number), and the mechanical issue wasn’t resolved, leading to another HNL diversion.

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    1. If it was a maintenance ferry flight, it would of been flown to either LAX or SEA. While there is maintenance in SAN, they don’t have the resources available at the two Alaska hubs I mentioned above

  5. Same thing happened to me on July 22 but with Hawaiian Airlines. Flight HA57 from San Diego departed and 2 hours later we turned around and landed in LAX. We spent the night in LAX and flew out the next day. They didn’t give much information other than “airplane issues”

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    1. The airline should be transparent and let their flying customers know what happened.

      generalaviationnews.com/2021/08/16/pilot-experiences-side-effects-after-flying-immediately-after-covid-vaccine/

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  6. My wife & I were on AAL’s red-eye flt from KOA-PHX last Feb 2022. We departed KOA on time @ 10:30 pm +/- aboard an Airbus NEO321. About 2.5 hrs into the crossing the pilot came on the cabin P.A. notifying all passengers “We have a landing gear problem light on in the cock-pit control panel. We have to turn-around & return to HNL” We returned to HNL & arrived @ 3 a.m. HST.
    Of course, @ 3 a.m. there was no arrival gate employees that knew anything about re-routing passengers.
    We ended up with a early morning (8:30 a.m.) flight to LAX, change terminals & planes arriving in PHX at 8 p.m. that evening. A flight that was to take 6 hrs direct to PHX took 22 hrs, KOA-HNL-LAX-PHX. We didn’t receive any rebate from AAL.

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  7. Thats really scary to hear. I was on an Alaska airlines flight from San Diego to Lihue on August 8th. Thank God nothing happened on my flight but please keep me posted what did happen on the other flights.

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  8. Mahalo for following up on these flight diversions. Haven’t heard anything in the news about them. Three in 48hrs is more than a coincidence. Appreciate your effortss!

    Lynn

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