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Old Dec 9, 2021 | 9:42 am
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Originally Posted by DELee
And stop flying so many folks between the Mainland and HI....
December arrivals are 22% lower than Dec 2019 - and on the polarized 772 flights and 773 flights - they go with plenty of empty seats (and often sub $300 airfare to the West Coast) - I'm guessing they have some lucrative cargo contracts to justify those planes or they will indeed be redeployed. OGG is starting to get MAX heavy soon.

I think UA will wait and see if the European leisure markets they've announced actually make money before doubling down with even more international leisure routes. Who knows.
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