Hawaiian Airlines to Increase Capacity Between Sydney and Honolulu

Hawaiian Airlines will upgrade its daily flights on the Sydney-Honolulu route to new, larger Airbus A330-200 aircraft from Wednesday, 25 April 2012, almost one month earlier than planned.

The wide-body, twin-aisle A330s seat 294 passengers in a two-class cabin, 30 more than the Boeing 767-300ER aircraft which Hawaiian currently uses on the route.

The upgrade to the A330 will increase Hawaiian’s Sydney – Honolulu seat capacity by 210 seats per week, or almost 11,000 seats per year – the equivalent of 41 additional Boeing 767 flights.

In addition to more seats and a larger cabin, all of Hawaiian’s A330 aircraft feature an on-demand entertainment system with an LCD touch-screen monitor in each seatback and a wide array of movies, TV programs and video games.

All passengers on Hawaiian Airlines flights from Australia also receive meals, drinks, video and audio entertainment and a generous allowance of two checked baggage items, each weighing up to 32 kilograms.

“The Airbus A330 is the new flagship aircraft type for Hawaiian Airlines and we are excited that it will now operate to Sydney,” said Sherilyn Robinson, Hawaiian’s General Manager, Sales and Marketing, Australia. “As well as delivering a new standard of in-flight service for our customers, the A330 will deliver more seats to the Sydney-Honolulu route at a time when extra capacity is needed to meet increasing demand for holiday and group travel.”

Hawaiian currently has six A330s in service and will add three more by mid-2012. The introduction of the sixth A330 last week has provided the additional capacity which will enable the airline to upgrade its Sydney-Honolulu services next month.

The new A330s also will enable Hawaiian to launch flights on new routes including daily, nonstop services between Honolulu and New York City, commencing on 4 June, 2012.

Hawaiian Airlines flight HA 452 departs Sydney daily at 21:20, crossing the international dateline and arriving in Honolulu at 10:10 the same day. The return flight, HA 451, departs Honolulu daily at 11:50 and arrives in Sydney at 19:20 the following day.

Hawaiian allows travellers on the route to combine different fare types in each direction, including Economy Class one way and Business Class the other.

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