![]() Feels like Sacramento has stepped back 20 years in time when it comes to traveling to Hawaii. Richard: For us who fly out of Sacramento, Southwest entering service to Hawaii has actually cost us several direct flights from other carriers and now they’re dropping their direct flights. Can’t imagine any California residents wanting to take a connecting flight.ĭon: Southwest is making a mistake and the Kauai, The Big Island, and to a degree Maui will pay the price as no one wants to fly 5 to 6 hours and have to spend another 2 to 3 hours taking another plane to the other islands. Hope the inter island business is enough for them. It is not worth losing 2 full days of my trip to travel–I might as well go to Europe! Foolish on their part to not keep at least Maui. They have completely lost my business, and I will go back to Alaska. I travel to Maui as well, and now they just pulled those trips too. However after booking a nonstop flight on Southwest to Kauai, only to be rerouted to a connecting flight at the height of the summer when fares were high, having to go backwards to Las Vegas, my usual 5 hour trip became a 12 hour trip. Lori: I always flew Alaska from San Diego to Hawaii until Southwest came into the market. And your insightful comments about Hawaii routes being canceled. Southwest Airlines is the driving force at Oakland Airport, including its Hawaii flights. At the time, Alaska moved its focus to San Francisco and San Jose. That was a route that Beat of Hawaii editors both miss personally. Last year Alaska also stopped Hawaii flights from convenient Oakland. At about the same time, Alaska pulled Sacramento to Maui. That once popular flight which commenced in 2018, was terminated in 2020. It began with the elimination of Sacramento to Kona. But at that time, it is set to be a seasonal-only route operating until April 1.Īlaska’s contraction started concurrently with Southwest’s arrival in Hawaii, which anyone would have predicted. We do see it returning to their schedule starting November 17. Alaska announced in April 2022 that the popular route was suspended from June until November. Alaska Airlines first started pulling back on Hawaii flights during Covid.Īnchorage to Honolulu. This is a significant about-face for the airline, which became laser-focused on its Hawaii expansion in the past couple of years.Īt the same time, Southwest decided to jump more squarely into interisland competition with Hawaiian Air. ![]() We reported last week that the following Southwest Hawaii nonstop routes were all terminated, and there’s even an addition we noted since then, listed below. Southwest Hawaii routes terminated: a long list. ![]() We do believe more changes are afoot in Hawaiian’s route map. We suggested that without a strategic alliance, routes such as that are challenging for any airline. The route announced in December 2020 started in March 2021. The route from Orlando to Honolulu will terminate on September 4. Once Southwest Airlines leaves the route, Hawaiian will be the only service between Long Beach and Maui. The company last tried that route back in 2016. On checking today, however, we no longer find any nonstop flights on that route from Hawaiian. At the time, these were set to operate from June 15 through September 6. In March, Hawaiian said they would start Oakland to Kona flights this summer. Hawaiian Airlines eliminated these routes. Please give us and the airlines who all read your comments, your feedback below. The situation in the Hawaii airline business has nearly as many twists and turns as does the Road to Hana (600 turns), pictured above. Oakland also lost a big Hawaii player last year, while recently expanded Long Beach to Hawaii routes have just contracted. ![]() Sacramento, for one, is a popular west coast gateway to Hawaii and, until recently, had many nonstop flight options from Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Southwest Airlines. At least five mainland cities have been left reeling from a pullback in Hawaii flights from coast to coast.
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