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Even though tourism is down substantially (except Kauai) spending is up - due to the new normal of higher room rates and low occupancy (under 70%) with vacation rentals.
June 2022 Spending vs 2019
Kauai: $231 million up 18%
BI: $206 million up 20%
Maui: $477 million up 15%
Oahu: $788 million up 7%
QUOTE: Maui is soaring to numbers not seen since Covid. There were nearly 300k visitors last month, the highest in 2 1/2 years.
QUOTE: It is already widely reported that the forward booking pace is crawling for the late summer and fall seasons. The holidays are always strong, but after that, we don’t see great signs ahead and 2023 looks to be a highly competitive, problematic travel environment with many Hawaii visitors instead opting for long-on-hold international destinations.
United Airlines, the dominant mainland carrier to Hawaii over the past few days has severely reduced its schedule to Hawaii, signaling some headwinds starting in September
United Airlines, the dominant mainland carrier to Hawaii over the past few days has severely reduced its schedule to Hawaii, signaling some headwinds starting in September
I sure hope they don't cancel my flight back home on September 30. They've already changed the departure time, so I'm keeping an eye on it.
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Originally Posted by Dreaming of Hawaii
I sure hope they don't cancel my flight back home on September 30. They've already changed the departure time, so I'm keeping an eye on it.
We had some Air BnB guests from Germany recently. Their flight to Hawai'i (leg from Germany to New York) was canceled and they were notified while driving to the airport. It cost them several thousand dollars to book a last minute flight so as to not lose their whole trip. Departing Kona, the night before their flight into Germany was being canceled to they were resigned to arriving in Switzerland or somewhere in Europe within a 12 hour rentql car drive to get home.
She's, I don't think traveling would be worth those kind of headaches.
Monday, August 8, Alaska Flight 806, from Maui to San Diego. It departed at 2:50 PM and had a flight diversion that took place at close to 2 hours in flight towards the west coast. The flight, onboard a Boeing 737-800, returned to Hawaii, landing at Honolulu. at 5:56 PM. The cause of the problem is unknown.
Tuesday, August 9, Alaska Flight 9201, from Honolulu to San Diego. Unbelievably, that flight suffered the same flight diversion fate as their prior fight 806. The Boeing 737-800 departed Honolulu at 9:48 AM and returned to Honolulu just shy of three hours later at 11:31 AM. If you notice the unusual flight number 9201, that appears to normally be used when it’s a special flight created by Alaska.
Wednesday, August 10, Alaska Flight 895 from San Diego to Honolulu. A flight diversion was called en route, and the 737-800 aircraft returned to San Diego at 1:37 PM, just one hour later.
Uh. No. Hawaiian had 1. Alaska had 3. Southwest had 3.
All narrowbody aircraft.
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