Delta adds Boston to Honolulu, more frequencies on existing HI routes
Feb 16, 2024, 11:22 am
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Delta adds Boston to Honolulu, more frequencies on existing HI routes
This is great to see. Shame it’s a 767-300 from Boston, but love to see Delta continuing to invest in Hawaii.
https://news.delta.com/delta-deepens-leisure-footprint-new-routes-hawaii-and-miami
https://news.delta.com/delta-deepens-leisure-footprint-new-routes-hawaii-and-miami
Feb 16, 2024, 1:33 pm
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I disagree - I think for such a long flight having 2-3-2 in the back is much more ideal, especially for couples who may be traveling together. That's the vast majority of people who would be traveling this route anyways, not business travelers. The back has the larger IFE if I'm remembering correctly.
Feb 16, 2024, 1:58 pm
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I disagree - I think for such a long flight having 2-3-2 in the back is much more ideal, especially for couples who may be traveling together. That's the vast majority of people who would be traveling this route anyways, not business travelers. The back has the larger IFE if I'm remembering correctly.
Feb 16, 2024, 2:18 pm
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Nice to see but I still don’t understand why DL won’t focus more on the outer HI islands like KOA or LIH. DL is the only carrier that doesn’t offer daytime/non-red eye options from either of those destinations back to the mainland. You’d think a morning outbound/midday return to LAX or SEA from KOA would work but apparently not. I believe DL use to fly SLC-KOA 10+ years ago but that hasn’t returned either.
Feb 16, 2024, 2:47 pm
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Have they posted any of the flight times yet for these flights? I was curious what the times were for the 2nd nonstop out of SLC. Were they going to mirror the new Hawaiian nonstop that starts in May? While more choice of times is great, I do hope SLC doesn't lose the widebody currently on that option.
Feb 16, 2024, 4:11 pm
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HA/AS will have to continue codeshares on intera-island flights. No way DOT approves merger otherwise.
Feb 16, 2024, 4:28 pm
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Hawaiian currently flies BOSHNL and from what I am seeing it's about $220OW so I can't imagine DL commanding a premium in this market with dilutive yields that can be flowed over different carrier hubs.
Feb 16, 2024, 4:34 pm
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While certainly OGG caters to an affluent crowd, Maui is fairly out of reach price-wise for many Americans. Not that Oahu isn't too but much less so. This is before or after recovery.
Feb 16, 2024, 8:24 pm
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If it was like JFK-HNL, there may be a period where the algorithm learns the buying and travel patterns. I remember being very surprised to be able to clear directly into D1 via RUCs on the route with one way clearing into the very last open seat at the time and the other way having 3 seats open (IME on this route they block 3 seats up to gate control and use 1 for the pilot rest)
Feb 16, 2024, 8:48 pm
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Have they posted any of the flight times yet for these flights? I was curious what the times were for the 2nd nonstop out of SLC. Were they going to mirror the new Hawaiian nonstop that starts in May? While more choice of times is great, I do hope SLC doesn't lose the widebody currently on that option.
Feb 17, 2024, 12:28 am
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That’s a surprising route. HAs service is still kind of newish and this is a lot of seat-add on the non-stop. Unless DL is heavily banking on connecting traffic, this route doesn’t make a lot of sense. Perhaps it will become more clear once the flight times are out, with a mid-day BOS departure and a true red-eye coming back this could be an attractive option I guess. I wonder if HNL-Asia is coming - that would then be quite interesting.
Feb 17, 2024, 1:02 am
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That’s a surprising route. HAs service is still kind of newish and this is a lot of seat-add on the non-stop. Unless DL is heavily banking on connecting traffic, this route doesn’t make a lot of sense. Perhaps it will become more clear once the flight times are out, with a mid-day BOS departure and a true red-eye coming back this could be an attractive option I guess. I wonder if HNL-Asia is coming - that would then be quite interesting.