Hawaiian Airlines celebrates third anniversary of Auckland service

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaii’s largest and longest-serving airline, this week celebrates its third anniversary of service between Auckland and Honolulu International Airports.

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaii’s largest and longest-serving airline, this week celebrates its third anniversary of service between Auckland and Honolulu International Airports. Since March 2013, the airline’s employees have shared their signature Hawaiian hospitality with more than 180,000 guests on nearly 1,000 direct flights between the two destinations.

“We are extremely proud of the impact Hawaiian Airlines has had on the market and pleased with the double-digit growth in tourism that we’ve seen in visitors from New Zealand,” said Mark Dunkerley, president and CEO of Hawaiian Airlines. “We’ve played a significant role increasing competition and lowering fares, making Hawaiแฟพi and the United States more accessible for Kiwis and making New Zealand more accessible to Americans. We are looking forward to the years ahead.”

Hawaiian Airlines’ commitment to the New Zealand market is as positive as ever, with the number of Kiwis travelling to the Aloha State more than doubling since 2013 from 25,000 to 63,7061.

Hawaiian Airlines serves the market with its A330 aircraft, offering popular amenities including personal high-resolution LCD touch-screen monitors in each seatback, increased legroom, and a roomy interior. The A330’s state-of-the-art entertainment system lets customers choose from a wide range of movies and TV programs; music; and video games; while also offering a USB port for personal media players.

By 2017, Hawaiian will further enhance the travel experience aboard the A330 by introducing 180-degree lie-flat seats and adding 28 more Extra Comfort seats for a total of 68. Extra Comfort features five more inches of legroom; priority boarding at the gate; complimentary on-demand in-seat entertainment; and a personal power outlet. The first newly outfitted aircraft will enter Hawaiian’s long-haul network in the second quarter of 2016.

Flight HA446, the Hawaiian Airlines anniversary flight, departed Auckland on March 13 and arrived in Honolulu on March 12. In celebration of the Polynesian connections between Hawaii and New Zealand, guests on board were treated to complimentary passes to Honolulu’s Bishop Museum to see historical Hawaiian artifacts loaned by the Te Papa Museum in Wellington. The items, a royal feathered cloak and helmet that belonged to Hawaii Island Chief Kalaniลpu’u, were also transported aboard flight HA446.

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