Hawaiian Airlines

Photo: Hawaiian Airlines

// September 5th, 2009 // Hawaii, Love'm, USA

Anyone who’s ever flown to Hawaii on United or virtually any other US carrier knows it’s a flying sardine can – even in First. So when I recently flew on Hawaiian Airlines I was prepared for the worst.  Wow – was I surprised.  Hawaiian’s planes are comfortable even in coach, and their First Class service – is First Class!  Hawaiian’s First class has a generous 42″ seat pitch in First (vs. United’s 36″ to 38″ in FIRST)  , great service, great entertainment (pvp players), and really good food. 

I ended up on Hawaiian after recently being faced with a dilema – fly on an Airbus A340 direct to Tahiti and pray we didn’t hit any bad weather, or fly safe and worry free on a Boening 767 with connecting service to Tahiti.  After the recent news about the A330/A340 from the FAA and the European Union concerning even more problems with the pitot tubes (and even more incidents of the computers going down because of it – click here to read about it) well… enough was enough.  I’d rather be on a plane that knows what altitude and speed it’s flying and have to connect, so I decided on the connecting flight on a Boening 767 which meant a connecting flight through Honolulu on the way to Tahiti adding about 2 hours more flight time, and approximately 2 on ground in Honolulu.  In addition to feeling much more secure with my choice of aircraft there were several added benefits to this flight:

  1. I would get miles with Virgin Atlantic (Hawaiian is also a member of several other FF programs too).  Air Tahiti Nui doesn’t participate any anyone elses FF program
  2. For an extra $200 I could fly first.  More comfort – and bonus miles with Virgin

I’ll definately be flying Hawaiian Airlines again, as long as they continue flying Boeing aircaft. They have great service and very competative pricing.  In addition to flying to Tahiti,  they also fly via Honolulu to Sydney, Manilla, and Samoa from several Major US markets including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland.  For the complete list of services and destinations – check out hawaiianairlines.com.

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