Originally Posted by VibeGuy

I don’t see anticompetitive issues there.

All three legacy network carriers + WN are already there. HNL isn’t slot-controlled.

B6 and F9 could both serve any of the island airports from their West Coast focus cities or DEN.

(I’m assuming the Spirit merger happens)

So I’m not sure how this is particularly anticompetitive.

If we wound the clock back to before narrowbody twins served mainland-HI routes, I might have different concerns. But the entry barriers now are incredibly low and I see smooth sailing from a regulatory perspective.