In September 2024, Alaska Airlines’ takeover of Hawaiian Airlines officially closed. While Hawaiian Airlines has been part of Alaska Air Group since then, the integration has been a gradual process. For example, in October 2025, we saw the airlines move onto a single operating certificate.
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Not sure if I could do this before, but just booked a test ticket for tmr LAX-OGG with AA miles on Hawaii A330. Number 1 on the upgrade list as AA EP. Now cancelled.
Given how much alliances are starting to matter less and less, I guess this is a small “yay” instead of a large “YAY”…
Great to see them in OneWorld - I do hope that despite them losing their HA code, we will not see them lose their livery or even disappear to be absorbed into Alaska Airlines. Always happy to see this Hawaiian spirit vibes at airports and especially when boarding one to Hawaii.
But, it does not appear separately as a member airline on the One World website. At least, yet.
While not going to happen anytime soon, it would be fun to see a HNL-LHR route
AFAIK there are no nonstops between Europe and Hawaii. Most demand would be leisure, not business or premium.
Yup, and from LHR, all of Thailand would be a shorter nonstop flight and Bali would be about the same time nonstop (14-16 hours). Why would Brits want to pay a premium for Hawaii when they can spend the same or less time and vacation in a much cheaper tropical destination?
Nice photo of the ancient 717... now retired. Haven't seen any Delta 717s lately either. They used to be on EWR-MSP a lot. Maybe just out of ATL these days... Nice to see more a220s, anyway.
"Hawaiian Airlines Finally Joins Oneworld Alliance, An Exciting Milestone" An exciting milestone for you maybe but for Hawaiian loyalists... not so much.
Perhaps a headline like "Hawaiian Airlines Avoids Death" will be more exciting for Hawaiian loyalists
Oh, really? Whoopsie. Been a while since I've been to Hawaii. Garsh. Can't believe those ole gals are still gettin' up.
@World Traveler
Why would Brits go there when Asian destinations are closer? The same reason Japanese, Korean, and Austrialian tourists make up such a large portion of HI visitors.
Has anyone seen award space show up as yet through Aadvantage? Also curious if anyone has seen Omanair award space through Aadvantage- ever since they joined OW, I've never seen a single award seat via AA
Many, many more Australians go to Bali than to Hawaii, because it's much closer, and much, much less costly.
Airlines seem to be slowly-but-surely shrinking back from their alliances, restricting award space to their own super-elite members, changing premium lounge availability, and wildly elevating the cost of award redemptions. It's obvious that the golden era of points accumulation has passed, and I have to wonder if formal alliances have outlived their utility.
At this point, there are still plenty of fantastic partner award redemptions to be had…this is how we book the majority of our overseas travel. Let’s hope this feature of the alliance system persists.
@Ratt...I concur. As a long-time HA Pualani Platinum, my benefits have gone into the dump this past year after Benito created a combined Atmos. Now that Atmos will be "normalized" with Oneworld (read AADvantage), the benefits will get even worse. Already seeing "points" (meaning $$) for status, as opposed to HA's mileage based system.
Don't even get me started on how the A321's are quietly disappearing and being replaced by AS Maxes.
AS is doing things that they promised they wouldn't do to get the merger approved.