HA schedule changes for PDX (November 2016)
Oct 24, 2016, 10:58 pm
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HA schedule changes for PDX (November 2016)
Starting November 26 PDX-HNL will depart at 8am now instead of 10:15am. The HNL-PDX flight will now depart 2 hours earlier at 1pm. What's the reason for these changes?
Oct 25, 2016, 11:51 am
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The retiming could be apart of a broader shuffling of the schedule to better balance the arrivals and departures in HNL. The airport suffers from some bad congestion during the peak midday times.
With HND moving to an earlier time slot in October and the 2nd HND starting in December, at the later times, there could be a shuffle in fleet utilization, driving the need for an extra 330 earlier in the day.
At the end of the year, HA is committing the lie-flat product to certain markets. As a result, there could be the need to shuffle the schedule to ensure they can meet this demand.
This schedule change could be a preview of what is to come next summer for the PDX market and they're getting a headstart on changing the times.
Retiming PDX to allow for better connectivity to Asia and South Pac cities.
There could be TONS of other reasons... hopefully the schedule change won't affect people's plans too much. At least they'll be getting to Hawaii earlier!
Last edited by azj; Oct 25, 2016 at 12:12 pm