I always marvel show we can move millions of people all over the world quickly and efficiently, if not comfortably. Today I had breakfast on Maui, hopped an inter-island flight to Honolulu and six-plus hours later Hawaiian Airlines delivers me to Sacramento. The system is immensely complex, but it works pretty well most of the…
A little more than a month ago, Hawaiian Airlines celebrated its 86th birthday. Ownership has changed once or twice over the years and the company has been in and out of bankruptcy a couple of times, but it’s still here and, however parochial it may be, we’re proud of it. It’s initial “fleet” consisted…
Two uneventful flights … the best kind … both landing ahead of schedule. Hawaiian Airlines from Maui to San Francisco; American from there to Chicago. The Hawaiian plane had the flight information displayed on the screen in the first class section for the entire time and I always find it interesting. In particular, we…
It seems to me that the airlines have pretty much abandoned traditional competition. They’re all cutting back on service, on leg room, on the number of flights … on all the things that would normally cause them to lose customers to other airlines. That doesn’t seem to be happening in the current environment, however, and…