Originally Posted by
gloopy
I love how every wanna be thinks Hawaii is some treasure trove of undiscovered profits. Its mostly an ultra low yielding, highly saturated market where big networks seat dump to bleed out mileage programs and a few niche carriers carve out some sustenance. That everyone thinks its part of their manifest destiny is laughable.
After living in Hawaii for nearly a decade, couldn't agree more. If DAL and HAL were to ever merge, it would be for the cheap metal only. No doubt DAL would immediately redeploy half their fleet to markets that actually sell first class seats. Hawaii is predominately a vacation and government travel, neither of which pay very high yields. During the dark years a few years back, you could often find HNL to LAX for $200 on UAL.....