Originally Posted by
WrightHI
Yes. Ben said on the Air Show podcast that anything touching HI will be HA branded, and they can’t optimize aircraft utilization with separate fleets for HI and everywhere else, so those HA-branded planes are going to have to also be AS-branded planes sometimes.
It’s going to be interested how they will do this. He didn’t go into many details, but didn’t seem to rule out that Max aircraft could have a Hawaiian paint job.
“Alaska flies approximately 30 times a day to Hawaii from California and the West Coast, and Hawaiian does about the same. So there's approximately 60 flights a day now on Alaska Air Group that flies to Hawaii. So some of those Alaska flights, that are flown by Alaska Metal, will go to Hawaiian Metal.
And so they'll be, you'll see more Hawaiian, like I said, everything to from and within Hawaii, will go on a Hawaiian branded airplane. Not to say there won't be a 737 with a Puolani on it in the future. There likely will be.”
From The Air Show: Ben Minicucci on Alaska's global ambitions, Dec 10, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000679873756
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