No real shock here since almost all the other major airlines are doing this but Hawaiian yesterday announced that they will be charging a $15 fee for the first checked baggage and $25 for the second for all Mainland flights starting October 1st. (For interisland flights you won’t be charged a fee for the first [...]
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Just today I was able to see how many visitors took a Hawaii vacation in the month of June and it looks there was a 14% drop off in arrivals. This dropoff could of resulted from two major airlines, Aloha and ATA, going out of business which resulted in less seats being sold or it [...]
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Last week there was big news that American Airlines was in the process of no longer offering their airline pricing to travel search engine Kayak.com and may possibly look to also stop selling their seats to Orbitz. From what I read it sounds like the reasoning for this was because Kayak was supposed to send [...]
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For your next Hawaii vacation you may be surprised to see that you will be charged $10 for your first check in bag on Go! Airlines which will begin charging this fee on August 10th. Go! Airlines is saying that the reason for this fee is to offset oil prices which is about to bring [...]
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More news today coming from the airline industry. Northwest Airlines said Wednesday that it will eliminate 2,500 management and front-line jobs to offset the cost of high oil prices. Northwest previously announced that it would shrink the amount of flying it does by roughly 9 percent later this year as well to offset the high [...]
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With the layoff announcements from American Airlines last week you knew more was bound to happen soon with the other airlines. This week discount airlines AirTran is announcing that they are laying off 180 pilots and 300 flight attendants by September 6th and that it is continuing to look for other ways to bring it’s [...]
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Thought I would share this video of Hawaii’s most active volcano shooting lava 50 feet in the air. If you ever in Hawaii you need to check this out.
Check the video out here.
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News earlier this week that American Airlines are going to layoff around 900 flight attendants seems to be just the beginning. Today the news coming out from American is that they plan on laying off 8% of it’s work force which comes out to about 6,800 jobs. The reasoning from American for these layoffs are [...]
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More possible bad news hit the travel industry today with American Airlines thinking about laying off 900 flight attendants due to high fuel prices. This seems to be the way that airlines are trying to offset the increase prices in fuel. With the decrease in people traveling for vacations this summer has resulted in airlines [...]
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