Consolidated WN Hawai'i rumors thread (post-ATA)
Aug 8, 2018, 1:54 am
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Tomorrow, Aug. 7, there's an event for travel professionals: “A Southwest Talk Story: Serving Hawaii with Heart” : https://beatofhawaii.com/southwest-h...omment-page-4/ . We can speculate on whether there will be more specific announcements.
Aug 8, 2018, 2:28 am
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Aug 8, 2018, 8:50 am
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Aug 10, 2018, 12:53 pm
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https://www.khon2.com/news/local-new...ans/1358192632
Another update, It appears that WN is going to use ground level boarding gates at HNL.
Here is is a quote from the article:
Airport changes: "We intend to have gates at obviously all four of the airports we've announced in the islands. In Honolulu, we're having our own area built up. It was the area Island Air started before they unfortunately went bankrupt, and so we'll continue that, and it'll be ground-loading at the end of the Diamond Head concourse. We think it will be a new space, we think people will love it, and we can't wait to provide hospitality to visitors and for locals."
Another update, It appears that WN is going to use ground level boarding gates at HNL.
Here is is a quote from the article:
Airport changes: "We intend to have gates at obviously all four of the airports we've announced in the islands. In Honolulu, we're having our own area built up. It was the area Island Air started before they unfortunately went bankrupt, and so we'll continue that, and it'll be ground-loading at the end of the Diamond Head concourse. We think it will be a new space, we think people will love it, and we can't wait to provide hospitality to visitors and for locals."
Aug 10, 2018, 5:22 pm
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Awesome! I was hoping they can start Hawaii flight sometime in end of 2018.
Yes, it's very comfortable. They have good legroom. Other airlines who got 28'' inches. It's so terrible. That's not good.
No, no nuts. No need to serve a nuts.
Yes, as long if they serving food for Hawaii flight. I think they will have to install ovens in the front & back of the aircraft. I think they would like to have Hawaiian foods or something like that.
No, no nuts. No need to serve a nuts.
Yes, as long if they serving food for Hawaii flight. I think they will have to install ovens in the front & back of the aircraft. I think they would like to have Hawaiian foods or something like that.
Aug 12, 2018, 11:09 pm
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Aug 16, 2018, 8:12 am
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Aug 16, 2018, 8:33 am
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“Could Southwest buy Hawaiian Airlines? Andy said quite emphatically no.” He said that airlines are very expensive currently and that such a move would not make sense.”
HA is at a P/E of 6 with a yield of over 1%.
That’s RIDICULOUSLY cheap for a public company, unless you expect WN to crush them.
Aug 16, 2018, 9:04 am
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Aug 16, 2018, 10:22 am
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A more truthful answer might have been of the form 'We don't want to buy somebody's problems. Integration is tough work.'
Aug 21, 2018, 3:51 pm
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Right! I think they will start the 737-800 aircraft with ETOPS overwater certified by FAA approval.