Hawaiian says aloha to Sydney

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HAWAIIAN Airlines is headed for Sydney - the first time in a decade
a new US carrier has started scheduled services to a major
Australian city.

In a move that will ease pressure on the federal Government to open
up trans-Pacific routes to Asian carriers, Hawaiian has applied for
approval to start service from May with four weekly flights.

Australia already has a bilateral agreement with the US which allows
its carriers to fly here - although only United Airlines and
Continental Micronesia (Guam) actually do so.

A spokesman for Transport Minister John Anderson said he did not
foresee any problems with the Hawaiian application.

This is the second attempt by Hawaiian, the 12th biggest US carrier,
to service Australia. A weekly DC8 service via Pago Pago between
1988 and 1990 proved uneconomic.

But the airline is confident its new non-stop service two-class
Boeing 767-300ER aircraft will prove a winner with Australians,
particularly given the strength of the local currency.

"Hawaii has long been a favourite destination for Australian
holidaymakers - but it has also been under-served in recent years as
major carriers have introduced new long range aircraft, largely
eliminating the need to stop over in Hawaii," said Hawaiian
president Mark Dunkerley.

"As we increase our international operations with new long-range
aircraft, Australia is a natural and very important addition to our
trans-Pacific network," he said.

The new service was welcomed by tourism authorities, who had been
calling for increased capacity to the US because of worries American
tourists were being deterred from visiting Australia because they
found it too hard to get seats.

Hawaiian's flights are timed to service the peak July holiday season
but the airline said it also hoped to attract conference and
incentive groups.

Its 9.30pm Sydney departures will put passengers on the ground in
Honolulu in time to catch connecting flights to the airline's six US
West Coast gateways.

The airline says connections to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento will involve layovers of less
than three hours.

The return flights arrive back in Sydney at 7.30pm.

Meanwhile, Qantas international traffic rose by 2.4 per cent in
November but a 5.8 per cent rise in capacity saw the percentage of
paying passengers on its planes fall 1.7 percentage points to 77.7
percent.

A 3 per cent rise in domestic traffic and a 2.6 per cent increase in
capacity drove the domestic load factor up 0.3 points to 79.1 per
cent.

International and domestic yields in November fell 0.6 per cent and
1.6 per cent respectively.

Singapore Airlines reported December load factors were higher than
last year as traffic remained flat on reduced capacity.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...55E643,00.html

HAWAIIAN Airlines is headed for Sydney - the first time in a decade
a new US carrier has started scheduled services to a major
Australian city.

In a move that will ease pressure on the federal Government to open
up trans-Pacific routes to Asian carriers, Hawaiian has applied for
approval to start service from May with four weekly flights.

Australia already has a bilateral agreement with the US which allows
its carriers to fly here - although only United Airlines and
Continental Micronesia (Guam) actually do so.

A spokesman for Transport Minister John Anderson said he did not
foresee any problems with the Hawaiian application.

This is the second attempt by Hawaiian, the 12th biggest US carrier,
to service Australia. A weekly DC8 service via Pago Pago between
1988 and 1990 proved uneconomic.

But the airline is confident its new non-stop service two-class
Boeing 767-300ER aircraft will prove a winner with Australians,
particularly given the strength of the local currency.

"Hawaii has long been a favourite destination for Australian
holidaymakers - but it has also been under-served in recent years as
major carriers have introduced new long range aircraft, largely
eliminating the need to stop over in Hawaii," said Hawaiian
president Mark Dunkerley.

"As we increase our international operations with new long-range
aircraft, Australia is a natural and very important addition to our
trans-Pacific network," he said.

The new service was welcomed by tourism authorities, who had been
calling for increased capacity to the US because of worries American
tourists were being deterred from visiting Australia because they
found it too hard to get seats.

Hawaiian's flights are timed to service the peak July holiday season
but the airline said it also hoped to attract conference and
incentive groups.

Its 9.30pm Sydney departures will put passengers on the ground in
Honolulu in time to catch connecting flights to the airline's six US
West Coast gateways.

The airline says connections to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento will involve layovers of less
than three hours.

The return flights arrive back in Sydney at 7.30pm.

Meanwhile, Qantas international traffic rose by 2.4 per cent in
November but a 5.8 per cent rise in capacity saw the percentage of
paying passengers on its planes fall 1.7 percentage points to 77.7
percent.

A 3 per cent rise in domestic traffic and a 2.6 per cent increase in
capacity drove the domestic load factor up 0.3 points to 79.1 per
cent.

International and domestic yields in November fell 0.6 per cent and
1.6 per cent respectively.

Singapore Airlines reported December load factors were higher than
last year as traffic remained flat on reduced capacity.

I wish an airline would say aloha to PER. If you want to travel to
the States (Hawaii in my case) from the west coast of Australia it
entails a change of planes in SYD and sometimes a terminal change or
via AKL on NZ in both cases its a PITA and adds hours to your trip
I'm sure there would be a market for a PER/HNL services with perhaps
CNS as a tech stop if need be to achieve full capacity, even if its
only once a week. If Jimmy Connors could take the America Cup back to
the states on an aging CO DC10 (paint job was aging anyway) direct
PERHNL I'm sure the newer generation 767-400-ER's could also do it
Aloha Ed