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Hawaiian Airlines will discontinue this nonstop route to the mainland

Hawaiian Airlines will discontinue route to Austin, Texas

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Next year, Hawaiian Airlines will end its nonstop flight from Honolulu to Austin, Texas. The last trip will occur on March 26, 2025, with a gradual ramping down until then. The airline launched the route in April 2021, looking to seize on Austin’s tech hub status and interest in Hawaii travel. The cancellation reflects a lack of popularity and Hawaiian’s further integration with Alaska Airlines post-merger.

Hawaiian Airlines is fine-tuning its network after recent merger

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Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines recently joined forces and will integrate and optimize their offerings. Part of that is fine-tuning routes and schedules, leading to the cancellation of the Honolulu to Austin flight. At the moment, the route operates three times per week aboard an Airbus A330-200. In January, that decreases to twice per week before ending on March 26, 2025.

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The change continues the pattern of the newly formed partnership adjusting routes and schedules. That includes adding a second daily flight between Seattle and Honolulu on April 22, 2025, using an Airbus A330 aircraft. Travelers will have the choice between a 12:35 p.m. departure or an overnight trip leaving at 9:30 p.m. 

A spokesperson for Hawaiian confirmed the news: “As we begin the exciting work to integrate our combined networks to offer our guests more flights and connections to more cities, we are making some initial adjustments to a few routes. Effective March 27th, we will serve Honolulu-Austin via one-stop connections in San Diego, Seattle, and our other gateways, and discontinue our thrice-weekly nonstop service so we can redeploy aircraft elsewhere in our network.”

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