Hawaiian Airlines New Route To Exotic South Pacific Islands

Should you love the South Pacific as we do, in the present day’s announcement from Hawaiian Airways will please you. Right now they introduced service to the Cook dinner Islands beginning in Might 2023. The once-weekly flight of two,941 miles is between Honolulu (HNL) and Rarotonga (RAR); each are in the identical time zone. That’s proper, no jet lag!

Now guests from Hawaii and the 15 mainland gateway cities served by Hawaiian Airways can have a handy method to go to the Cook dinner Islands. You might recall that Aloha Airways flew this route beforehand, as did Hawaiian, between 1987 and 1993.

“We’re delighted to develop our South Pacific community by providing our company entry to the Cook dinner Islands, an archipelago that shares Hawai’i’s Polynesian roots and pure magnificence. — Peter Ingram, CEO, Hawaiian Airways.

The Cook dinner Island Prime Minister Mark Brown stated, “We glance to rebuild our tourism business and strengthen entry to our northern hemisphere markets.”

Tickets to the Cook dinner Islands may be bought beginning December 7.

Search for HA 495, which is able to depart HNL at 4 PM on Saturdays, arriving in RAR at 10:25 PM the identical day. The return flight, HA 496, is ready to depart a full 24 hours later, at 11:35 PM on Sundays, arriving in Honolulu at 550 AM on Mondays. That’s a change from the nonstop to Tahiti (Papeete) that returns to Honolulu shortly after arrival.

The flights shall be aboard Hawaiian’s narrow-body A321neo plane, which, sadly, doesn’t characteristic lie-flat seating in enterprise class. It has 16 enterprise recliners, 45 further legroom seats, and 128 common financial system seats. Leisure is through wi-fi streaming to buyer units, and seats characteristic USB retailers.

We plan to go and report again – how about you? Are you keen to go to the Cook dinner Islands?