Syndicated Travel Writer Christopher Elliott has come up with a suggestion that makes a lot of sense. He proposes that the Airlines adopt and enforce a dress code. Those of us who fly regularly are painfully aware of the passengers who board flights to and from these islands wearing T-shirts with off-color slogans, shorts and…
A friend of mine has to fly over to Honolulu for a couple of days next month and, as we all do when flying inter-island, he went to the Hawaiian Airlines website to book a roundtrip ticket. Once the on -line purchase had been completed—a late-morning flight out of Maui—the website asked him, “What about…
I arrived in Hawaii on May 1st of 1962. It’s amazing how different things were that long ago. Along with military spending and agriculture, tourism had been a significant component of the Hawaiian economy for several decades, but it was really starting to take off in the 1960s. Two events occurred in 1959 that…
About a week ago, the annual ratings for some 200 of the world’s airlines were released by Skytrax, a web site that describes itself, albeit a bit redundantly, as “The comprehensive Airline and Airport customer review site for airlines and airports across the world.” According to Skytrax, more than 19 million airline passengers were…