Originally Posted by
WindWalker999
Would be a wildly profitable route. For those of us in Hawaii with family in Guam those flights are ridiculously expensive and usually full. United’s customer service in Guam has historically been pretty hit-or-miss, and have always wondered why we don’t hit this route with some competition (seriously, $50 less a ticket and have the gate agents actually smile, and it would be a clean-sweep for HA/AK).
Have wondered for years why we don’t do it. Always been some BS-sounding rumors floating around about a back-room deal between a long-past CEO of HA and Continental / Air Micronesia (which route was subsumed by United into the current flight).
With a connection there, you definetlely remember only NWA flew to Guam in the early 90s. They had a 727 for a brief period between Guam and Saipan, short lived. NWA otherwise only flew to Guam via NRT and NGO.
United attempted service mid 90s and was short lived also.
As someone alluded to here, there might be a different agreement between United and HA now the we are AAG.