Originally Posted by
readywhenyouare
You would think Delta would have built up SLC-Hawaii for the summer. UA and AA have added lots of capacity and for good reason. With Europe and Asia travel in the toilet it's one of the few places available to vacation. I can remember when SLC had multiple 767's to HNL, OGG, and KOA. ATL for the longest time had an OGG flight as well. Delta has really dropped the ball on Hawaii.
DL has been very weak in Hawaii ever since post-NWA merger. They cut a bunch of PMNW routes like DTW/PDX/SFO-HNL plus gutted the HNL-Asia operation. SLC-Hawaii flying was probably a victim of SEA growth and DL wanting to compete with AS there as it’s more efficient to use narrowbodies out of SEA vs SLC which likely needs a widebody to be sustainable. Right now DL is only at 3x daily on LAX-HNL (down from 4x pre-COVID) and they cut the 763 off the morning flight. They also no longer offer a morning flight from LAX/SEA to either LIH, OGG, or KOA which is a big drawback vs AA/UA which do offer morning flight.