Hawaiian Airlines Accelerates Upgrade to Larger Aircraft on Seattle Route

Hawaiian Airlines has accelerated its plans to increase seat capacity for service between Hawaii and Seattle by two weeks.

The switch to the 294-seat Airbus 330-200 aircraft with its 30 more seats per flight will now occur on 26 November for Hawaiian Airlines' Honolulu-Seattle service and 2 December 2013 for its Maui-Seattle service.

The airline currently operates a 264-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft on its Seattle routes.

Hawaiian Airlines offers daily non-stop service between Honolulu and Seattle and Kahului, Maui and Seattle.

Hawaiian Airlines' A330 offers amenities that have been a popular with its customers, highlighted by the personal on-demand entertainment system for each seat, increased legroom, and the roomy interior.

With high-resolution LCD touch-screen monitors in each seatback, the A330's state-of-the-art entertainment system lets customers choose from a wide range of movies, TV programs, music, and video games, while also offering a USB port for the use of their own personal media players.