Kalaeloa - potential to alleviate HNL crunch?

[terracore]

I understand what you are saying Geochem but looking at the matter practically, during the day Hilo gets a jet in about once per hour. And also the same jet going out. So an arrival or departure once every 30 minutes. How would making Hilo a Southwest hub change the quality of life for people who have elected to live next to an airport that has existed since 1929? Would they even notice the difference? Hilo used to get 300,000 (overseas alone) passengers a year in the 1970's.

Making Hilo an airline hub wouldn't come close to scratching the surface of what Hilo used to be, and the jets that existed back then were many times louder than the technology in use today.