International Transportation: Hawaiian Airlines Wins Tentative Nod For Tokyo Service

May 11, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Hawaiian Holdings’ (NASDAQ: HA) Hawaiian Airlines unit has been granted tentative approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation to operate one daily flight between Honolulu and Tokyo's Haneda Airport, the airline said Monday.

Hawaiian Airlines had applied for two round trips and is asking for DOT to reconsider granting Hawaiian a second daily round trip.

The airline said it will initially service the Honolulu-Tokyo flights with its Boeing 767-300ER aircraft seating up to 264 passengers, before adding its new and larger 294-seat Airbus A330-200 aircraft onto the route.

The Tokyo-Honolulu flights are a first step in Hawaiian's long-term plan to expand its service in Asia and other international destinations using the 27 new Airbus A330s and A350s that the company said it expects to integrate into its fleet over the coming decade.

Hawaiian said it is “well prepared” to serve the Honolulu-Tokyo route. The company offers a Japanese language website and has had a sales presence in Tokyo since 1973, and also previously operated the largest charter service between the U.S. and Japan in the 1980s and early 1990s, the airline said.

Hawaii-based Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii from 10 U.S. gateway cities, as well as service to the Philippines, Australia, American Samoa, and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides more than 150 daily jet flights between the Hawaiian Islands.

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