Alaska Airlines to suspend nonstop flights between Anchorage and Hawaii until November

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – All nonstop Alaska Airways flights between the Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport and Honolulu’s Daniel Okay. Inouye Worldwide Airport have been canceled from June till November, in accordance with an Alaska Airways spokesperson.

Alaska Airways Public Affairs Supervisor Tim Thompson mentioned in an e-mail that nonstop service between Anchorage and the Honolulu airport on the island of Oahu will return in November, “together with our Maui and Kona nonstop service.” Thompson didn’t specify dates.

Alaska Airways reserving info reveals that the quickest methods for a journey to get from Anchorage to Honolulu and again is by the use of connecting flights in Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport, Los Angeles Worldwide Airport or Portland Worldwide Airport.

Thompson wrote that no different main nonstop service routes to and from Anchorage are affected, and added that the present staffing ranges on the airline are the principle issue within the change.

“We proceed to regulate our working schedule to fulfill our staffing ranges,” Thompson wrote.

Alaska Airways has struggled with staffing ranges this month, as pilots protested and the airline mentioned it encountered a backlog in its coaching program because it labored to deliver on extra pilots. The corporate had 63 fewer pilots able to fly in April than it had deliberate on in January, it mentioned.

Correction: This text has been up to date to right that pilots protested in April.

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