Hawaiian Airlines was founded in the year 1929 as Inter-Island Airways. The hub of Hawaiian Airlines is Honolulu International Airport. This airline is often referred as HAL. The founding company of Inter-Island Airways was the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company. The name was changed into the Hawaiian Airlines in 1941 after the operations were expanded to the other destinations of the Hawaiian Islands. The earlier models of the airline fleet were Lockheed and Douglas DC-8 aircrafts. Now the aircraft or fleet of the Hawaiian Airlines consists of Boeing and the rest of the fleet models have been retired in order to modernize the airline services. The airline has gone through many organizational restructuring in order to revive the business in the competitive market. The Hawaiian Airlines also has a secondary hub in Maui that is the Kahului Airport. This United States Airlines has the code sharing agreements with many airlines like the Korean Air Lines, Virgin Blue, Northwest Airlines, American Airlines and the Virgin Atlantic Airways.
| There are many destinations of the Hawaiian Airlines. It covers many cities in Asia, North America and Australia. Few of the destinations have been discontinued as there were organizational problems. Hawaiian flights to the destinations like Auckland, Brisbane, Ontario and Guam have been discontinued. The current destinations of the Hawaiian Airlines in the United States are cities like Anchorage, Alaska, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, Honolulu, San Francisco, Kahului, Hilo, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Las Vegas, Kailua-Kona, Lihue, Portland and Seattle/Tacoma.
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In Asia the city covered by Hawaiian Airlines is Manila. In the Australia and Oceania region, the cities covered by the Hawaiian Airlines are Sydney, Pago Pago and Papeete.
The fleet of Hawaiian Airlines consists of 11 Boeing 717-200, 4 Boeing 767-300 and 14 Boeing 767-300ER. There are other fleets like the Airbus A330-200 and the Airbus A350-800XWB that are under order from the airlines. The newly acquired fleet would help in making the aircraft carry more passengers and at the same time give the long haul flights to be more frequent. The frequent flier program of the Hawaiian Airlines is termed as HawaiianMiles. With the distance accumulated there are offers like discounted tickets and free up gradation of the passengers. There are also the benefits of complimentary hotel stays and car rentals to go about the city. Privileges are many when many miles are accumulated. Non stop flights are meant for many destinations especially those that are very popular destinations.
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