Dozens of Hawaiian Airlines cancellations add to airport headaches during busy travel weekend

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – It’s a busy vacation weekend at Honolulu’s airport.

It’s additionally turning out to be a nerve-racking one for some vacationers.

During the last a number of days, Hawaiian Airways has canceled dozens of inter-island flights due to pilot shortages, leaving some scrambling to determine how they’ll make their deliberate journey.

“So we had been slightly shocked that it did get canceled,” stated Paige Garcia, who was scheduled to fly to Maui together with her household on Friday morning.

Their flight was pushed to a later time.

“It’s been slightly hectic,” she stated.

Vacationers flying from Maui to Oahu bumped into the identical drawback.

“It was sort of empty at first early this morning, so I sort of obtained nervous. I used to be like, wait a minute, seems to be like a ghost city,” stated Ewa Seashore resident Michael Decenso.

“And I had a foul feeling about all flights being canceled. Positive sufficient it was cancelled.”

Decenso was presupposed to return to Oahu on Thursday night time, however his flight was one in every of 19 Neighbor Island journeys that ended up being cancelled. “It’s sort of irritating. I simply needed to be house,” he stated.

Hawaiian Airways says the schedule modifications are due to coaching points associated to their flight simulator. And ultimately, there weren’t sufficient pilots to function the Boeing 717.

Hawaiian does anticipate inter-island operations to normalize a bit heading into the weekend. They’re now utilizing bigger plane, particularly for his or her busiest routes ― together with Honolulu to Kahului.

The airline is apologizing to their friends for the schedule disruptions.

Regardless of the delays, vacationers say they’re nonetheless wanting ahead to some high quality time with household.

“We’re hoping to get some actual leisure there,” stated Daniel, a Las Vegas resident headed to Maui.

Hawaiian Airways says they’ve sufficient bigger plane to make use of for his or her neighbor island flights as wanted to accommodate friends till the coaching points are resolved.

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