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"Beat of Hawaii reports that for the first time Southwest Airlines is a major corporate sponsor of Hawaii Global Tourism Summit which starts tomorrow in Honolulu. Southwest is expected to speak at the conference on Wednesday."
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Not an improvement if I still have to connect in HNL or OGG.
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Several reports indicate that the entry of Southwest into the Hawaii market will not significantly lower mainland fares. What would be a major shakeup, however, would be their entry into the interisland market. A quick search on southwest.com found numerous one way fares of $59 to $79 on their current flights between mainland (mostly Texas) cities with comparable distances to those between our islands.
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their entry into the interisland market
It would be "really neat" if SWA accomplished this by running direct mainland flights from every island EXCEPT Oahu.
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I so want affordable choices from Hilo direct to the mainland.
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affordable choices from Hilo direct to the mainland.
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I think we are stuck with United and their identical crappy 737's. Just not enough demand to warrant all the extra equipment and personnel in Hilo. I won't fly Southwest's 737s on a 6 hour flight and have only done it on united, once. What a terrible experience.
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Yuck, no thanks. Bring back Aloha Airlines!
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their entry into the interisland market
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affordable choices from Hilo direct to the mainland.
If Southwest does announce that they'll fly to Hilo, would it be too much to ask that they put a Costco on each plane?
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SWA is the best mainland airline, we should be so lucky if they deign to serve Hawaii in any capacity.
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