We’ve written about Hawaii flight delays now for months. And whereas we thought it might begin to enhance, it solely will get worse. With our upcoming conferences in Honolulu and Maui, it’s arduous to know any longer how far prematurely to go away. It’s fairly nuts. Our publish as we speak contains our greatest technique for coping with this new phenomenon.
What on earth is inflicting these flight delays?
Nobody has an actual reply. We’ve requested Hawaiian Airways, which has a disproportionately excessive proportion of delayed Hawaii flights, and so they haven’t been forthcoming. We’ll meet with different airline executives in November, and you may be certain we’ll be asking pointedly and reporting again to you.
As as to if one runway being out of service in Honolulu may very well be the trigger, we’d say no. That has been occurring for a while, and if it have been the problem, then flight schedules would have already been revised to accommodate that. That leaves the reply we lately obtained from a Hawaiian Air individual at HNL as probably the most suspect: lack of personnel.
Sunday’s flight delays went like this:
- 115 Honolulu Hawaii flight delays.
- 57 Maui Hawaii flight delays.
- 29 Kauai Hawaii flight delays.
- 18 Kona Hawaii flight delays.
- 9 Hilo Hawaii flight delays.
Final week we reported 316 flight delays in a single day.
Suppose that was the tip of it? Not. Yesterday, Sunday, noticed one other spate of Hawaii flight delays, as soon as once more largely impacting Honolulu but in addition seen broadly in any respect of Hawaii’s airports. We began receiving messages about this early within the day. A pal attempting to get to Kauai from Honolulu referred to as to inform us about her two-hour delay, after which one other delay was introduced. In the long run, she was 3 hours late, caught in a depressing terminal with no choices.
Find out how to put together for Hawaii flight delays:
1. Test in the course of the week earlier than journey to know what number of and what number of your airline’s flights are delayed. That gives you an concept of what to anticipate. Don’t depend on airline web sites for this info. Use knowledgeable monitoring useful resource.
2. Search for the prior day’s delays late within the day since these change and improve as every day progresses. Test these flight delays your self on FlightAware delay monitoring.
3. Additionally, use FlightAware flight monitoring to test to see in case your flight will probably be on time and to search out the incoming airplane that may change into your flight. Search for the “the place is my airplane” hyperlink. That can take you to the incoming flight. Did it depart on time? That’s indication of whether or not your flight could also be late, though it doesn’t inform the entire story.
4. Anticipate to be delayed and plan accordingly. In case you aren’t delayed, be pleasantly shocked, and please tell us. Most of our latest Hawaii flights have had at the least some delay, and that’s additionally what you might be reporting to us, and our associates are as effectively.
5. Don’t anticipate finding nice meals selections at Hawaii airports. As you recognize from yesterday’s uber-popular article on the new and disappointing Honolulu Airport Mauka Concourse, there are nearly no meals choices. We notice you’re additionally involved since that article has been learn 50k instances. Not solely is that concourse completely missing in meals, however within the subsequent terminal over (and it’s a stroll), you’ll discover nearly all the pieces shuts down by 5 pm. We talked about yesterday that the meals selections at Hawaii airports needs to be distinctive, stand-out, and world-class. However as an alternative, we’ve a depressing third-world concessionaire which provides horrible selections. Anticipate grim meals selections at Hawaii airports if you discover any.
6. Don’t rely on Starbucks, both. Whereas we discovered them open later than different choices, their hours additionally appear variable. At present, the Terminal 1 location closest to the Mauka terminal seems to be closing at 5:30 pm. Different places within the airport are closing at 8:30 and 9:30 pm. However don’t rely on that both, as these can change shortly based mostly on obtainable staffing.
Two of your Hawaii airport meals choice feedback stand out:
Stan stated, “For as a lot as Hawaii has to supply the world food-wise, the choices on the airport are miserable in Terminal 1 and non-existent in Terminal 2. Chain eating places have their place, however the regionally owned eating places in Hawaii having places open within the airport can be a good way to move out for folk about to go away on a protracted flight.”
Jim added, “We simply returned from that airport (HNL) and to say it was a disappointment is an understatement. The one place to get one thing to eat was Burger King. Forty-two {dollars} for two Whoopers, fries, and two drinks.”
Jeff concurs, as he additionally acquired caught on a no-other-option $21 veggie burger on a latest HNL jaunt.
Please be ready for Hawaii flight delays, after which tell us the way it goes.
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