Originally Posted by
slippahs
You may be right, but even with Madeleine, all the other majors issued weather waives for many of the major Hawaii airports, whereas HA just issued a waiver for KOA and ITO.
As you well know, Hawaii is the center of Hawaiian's operation. Hawaii is merely a few spoke stations for the other carriers. Hawaiian can spend the time to focus on the real impacts of a storm, as it will have ripple effects for the entire airline. The other carriers can easily cancel or delay a few flights to mitigate the problems a storm of Hurricane or even tropical storm magnitude will incur. Recovery for them will be far easier. What good reason would HAL have to offer weather waivers for travel to islands not affected by Madeline? Or any storm for that matter? IMO, HAL is taking the right approach. If the weather will adversely affect the operation and compromise safety, they will act accordingly. Until then, it's speculation and issuing blanket weather waivers without know the full impact of the storm is unnecessary.