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Hawaiian says aloha to Sydney
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. |
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Hawaiian says aloha to Sydney
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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 |
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