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Hawaiian Airlines has become oneworld’s newest member airline, becoming the third US-based carrier alongside Alaska Airlines and American Airlines and adding Honolulu as a global hub.

By Fate Spooner

Reflecting strong demand and the airline’s continued confidence in the New Zealand market, Hawaiian Airlines marked its return to seasonal Auckland-Honolulu services with an event in Auckland yesterday.

Hawaiian Airlines has marked the upcoming animated musical, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Moana 2, coming to theatres on 27 November, by unveiling the first of three aircraft designs related to the movie.

By Megan Singleton

Hawaii’s drawcards beyond sun, surf and beach are being highlighted in campaigns that were showcased to New Zealand travel agents this week.

Hawaiian Airlines will pause its Honolulu to Auckland service in April next year and resume in November having made a decision to reduce the year round schedule.

Both the trade and consumers have quickly responded to the relaunch of services between Auckland and Honolulu, with the first Hawaiian Airlines flight out of AKL on Monday night full and a major agents’ initative coming up seeing big demand.

Darragh Walshe, of Hawai’i Tourism in New Zealand, says the Aloha Downunder event scheduled for 29 August in Auckland is ‘basically sold out’.

Hawaiian Airlines remains keen to return to New Zealand and Australia, but accepts that they may be two of the last international markets to open up, this week’s CAPA Live webinar event heard.

HA’s chief executive Peter Ingram points out that the airline has been flying to Japan and Korea from Hawaii ‘to a certain degree’ for several months.

‘That started with all-cargo flights, with enough demand to justify the costs of operating and allowed us, as the pre-travel testing regime has come into place in Hawaii, to open up to passenger demand with a low hurdle for what incremental costs we need to cover that.’