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Old Apr 1, 2012 | 11:50 pm
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Originally Posted by UrbaneGent
It seems first Anchorage and now San Francisco. Of ALL the flights (six a day to HNL from SFO) couldn't UA just try to re-route passengers via SFO, LAX (16 flights a day!) or KOA (and then one of 26 flights between KOA-NHL)?
The timing for this mechanical was really bad -- the passenger loads were probably very high to Hawaii on Saturday due to the beginning of spring break for a lot of kids. Yes, lots of other potential flights, but they might have had very few empty seats.
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