My wife and I fly to and from Los Angeles at least twice a year. We were shocked by the way the Alaska and Hawaiian airlines merger is going.

We booked our flight on Hawaiian Airlines, but our whole passenger list was switched to Alaska at the LAX terminal. When we got to the gate we were assigned different seats. A Boeing 737-Max airplane with the bad reputation for crashes is what we flew.

One of your readers was complaining about no free headphones on Hawaiian (“Hawaiian flight nudges customers to Alaska,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Nov. 6). How about no video screens at the seats? If you didn’t have a device, you sat in the plane with nothing to do, not even a “Hana Hou!” magazine to read. Food was for sale only.

Local flyers beware. Your next flight on “Hawaiian” Airbus airplanes might be switched to Alaska’s Boeing fleet. Bring your Bento lunch and a good book.

John and Rita Shockley

Makakilo

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