12-16-2010, 06:33 AM
IMHO, this will only work if the price is right and if East Hawaii residents and tourists use it. I question the 40,000 new visitors quote, too, but there will no doubt be some new traffic. I am cautiously optimistic, though, because the ATA flight schedule was not really geared to getting anyone beyond the Bay Area, and Continental/United have massive network that opens up all of North America. The redeye element will only put off a limited number of potential customers because a large percentage of flights from Hawaii to North America are already overnight, and virtually all of them to the central and eastern USA are.