AS Alaska to acquire HA Hawaiian

[justinbrett]

Though as you said, there are some costs including training, signage changes and IT updates.

HA is going to be run as if it was part of AS (one airline, two brands). So those won't be an issue.

Definitely won't be oneworld connect. It will be affiliate, like Qantaslink or BA Cityflyer.

However like with US Airways, I predict it will be marketed as a full member (ie gets its tail on various signs & promos) as it does enhance the oneworld brand to have an extra member. But as it is subordinate to AS, it will function as an affiliate. This is especially true as AS will hold the combined loyalty system.

 

[elanshin]

Reading that US regulatory would potentially take at least 12-18months (potentially longer) to get approval.

 

[justinbrett]

Reading that US regulatory would potentially take at least 12-18months (potentially longer) to get approval.

That’s what AS & HA said in the original press conference.

 

[elanshin]

Hawaiian Airlines Open To Acquisition By Other Carriers

The information was revealed in a recent SEC filing.

simpleflying.com

Came across this. Interesting to see HA being this desperate.

 

[justinbrett]

HA is handing back some HND slots

Hawaiian returns Haneda slots due to unfavourable market conditions

Hawaiian Airlines has given up slots for flights to Tokyo's Haneda airport from Honolulu and Kona effective 2 April, blaming "current market conditions".

www.flightglobal.com

 

[Himeno]

HA just quit HND. Won’t be much of an international network left at this rate.

Hawaiian returns Haneda slots due to unfavourable market conditions

Hawaiian Airlines has given up slots for flights to Tokyo's Haneda airport from Honolulu and Kona effective 2 April, blaming "current market conditions".

www.flightglobal.com

HA has the remaining US night slots, which have historically not worked well for the US carriers (at least from the US mainland). It is the only night slots for HND that the US retained after they handed back the rest in 2019 in exchange for the current day slots.
UA is already asking for them to fly from Guam.

 

[elanshin]

HA just quit HND. Won’t be much of an international network left at this rate.

Hawaiian returns Haneda slots due to unfavourable market conditions

Hawaiian Airlines has given up slots for flights to Tokyo's Haneda airport from Honolulu and Kona effective 2 April, blaming "current market conditions".

www.flightglobal.com

Doesn't necessarily mean leaving TYO though. Also are they returning all their HND slots? Says they're returning 7 slots, i thought they had more than that.

HA also has NRT flights so they may shift their focus there and use JL codeshare more for HND.

 

[justinbrett]

Doesn't necessarily mean leaving TYO though. Also are they returning all their HND slots? Says they're returning 7 slots, i thought they had more than that.

HA also has NRT flights so they may shift their focus there and use JL codeshare more for HND.

Ah yeah I misread the article, they are still retaining the daytime slots in HND (I think 2x daily). They're handing back the daily night time slots.

 

[Himeno]

The US went into the last HND slot allocation in 2019 with 1 night slot and 5 day slots, having returned the other 3 night slots for the day slots in the 2016 round.
They were given 12 additional day slots in 2019.

They went into 2019 with:
AA 1
DL 2
UA 1
HA 2 (inc night slot)

In the 2019 allocation, they got
DL 5
UA 4
AA 2
HA 1

DL was forced to give up one of their slots, which was awarded to AA a few days ago.
UA, after losing their application for the DL slot, is now after the HA slot, asking for a route which the DOT rejected in 2019.

HA should still have 2 slots if they are only handing back 1 daily HND frequency.