Hawaiian Airlines Launches New Service
The Brisbane-Honolulu flights will give Hawaiians more opportunities to visit Australia
Mach to everyone surprise, residents of Hawaii, that island paradise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, apparently do go on vacations. As said Hawaiian Airlines CEO Mark Dunkerley, he is hoping that a new service to Brisbane will not only make it easier for more Australians to head to Hawaii but will also offer Hawaiians a wider range of Australia vacation destinations.
Mr. Dunkerley says although the airline was principally about bringing vacation travelers to Hawaii from countries around the Pacific such as Australia, Japan and South Korea. The Brisbane-Honolulu flights would give Hawaiians more opportunities to visit Australia. 'You might find it hard to imagine perhaps but people who live in Hawaii, we like to travel too and not just stay at home, lovely as it is,' Mr. Dunkerley said in an interview from Honolulu on Sunday (AEST).
'Hawaiian, and indeed if you talk to other airlines as well, will tell you that the US consumer is still buying air tickets.'
Hawaiian Airlines started flying to Australia in 2004 and has a daily service between Sydney and Honolulu with an Airbus A330-200 on a route also flown by Qantas and Jetstar.
Mr. Dunkerley said the three-times-a-week service between Brisbane and Honolulu, starting in November, would benefit from flying into the largest hub of its Australian domestic partner Virgin Australia, and would offer plenty of good connections to popular tourist spots in Queensland and beyond.
'As we come into Brisbane, connections are going to play an increasingly important role for us,' Mr. Dunkerley said. 'We can get terrific connections throughout the Australian mainland. Queensland... is growing and developing more quickly than most other parts of Australia.'
Virgin Australia, the nation's second-largest carrier, in October last year started codesharing on Hawaiian's Sydney-Honolulu service as well as flights beyond Honolulu to surrounding Hawaiian Islands. Asked whether the airline would place its code on the new Brisbane-Honolulu flights, a Virgin Australia spokesperson said there was no current agreement to do so. 'It's something that we would look at,' the spokesperson said on Sunday.
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