QANTAS: Suspending flights to Hawaii for 2 months

ET has reported that Qantas is suspending it 4 times a week A330 flights to Honolulu from 31 January to 26 March 2022.

QF103/QF104 between Sydney and Honolulu only resumed on 20 December 2021. The suspension is because Qantas

Booked to Hawaii?

If your flight is affected by this change, then get in touch with Qantas/Jetstar or your travel agent. You will either get a refund, flight credit or can rebook your flight on available Hawaiian Airlines, Jetstar or Qantas flight.

Hawaiian only operates one A330 service per week during February and March. It features 18 Business Class (lie-flat seats) in a 2-2-2 layout, 36 economy comfort seats with a 36″ pitch, and 192 of the 31″ pitch standard economy seats both in a 2-4-2 configuration.

Hawaiian Airlines offers flights to other island destinations in Hawaii, as well as connections to 16 cities on the USA mainland.

Future Dreamliners

Hawaiian Airlines has a bunch – that’s 10, actually, of B787-9s on order, with deliveries starting in August 2022. The Sydney route at 10+ hours is a prime candidate to have one of these new birds scheduled on the route.

2PAXfly Takeout

This is another timely reminder to wear your seatbelt when seated. Holding you close to your seat will protect you from the sort of injuries sustained on this flight, when unsecured passengers flew to the ceiling of the aircraft, and then came crashing down once the ‘drop’ ceased.

The hope will be that this is an anomaly – a ‘freak accident’ in casual parlance. If it is a systemic error either mechanical or electronic, then this is a larger concern for the airlines that fly Boeing Dreamliner 787 aircraft. Let’s hope it isn’t. If it is, it will pile on the woes to Boeing’s existing stack.

My first International trip back in 1988 included a Hawaiian leg, so I have seen the airport – then open to the elements, no air conditioning. I’d love to visit Hawaii properly sometime, but probably not this year.