America's Longest Domestic Flight Is Dead

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Hawaiian Airlines announced earlier this period that it will beryllium ending its 5,095-mile formation betwixt Honolulu and Boston later this week. The 4 times a week work was nan longest home formation successful nan United States. The hose cited debased recreation request for its decision. It's a facet that wasn't exclusive to Hawaiian Airlines. Delta Air Lines launched a Boston-Honolulu work past November but scrapped its flight.

Hawaiian launched nan 11-hour work to Boston-Logan International Airport successful 2019, which is apt nan worst twelvemonth successful caller representation to motorboat a long-haul flight. Hawaii's recreation request still hasn't recovered to pre-pandemic levels 5 years later. The authorities saw 9.5 cardinal visitant arrivals by aerial successful 2024. That fig was 10.2 cardinal arrivals successful 2019. The last formation from Boston will return disconnected connected November 19. Hawaiian Airlines CEO Joe Sprague told the Seattle Times:

"It's ever a difficult determination to suspend a route, particularly successful cities for illustration Seoul, which we person enjoyed serving for complete 14 years. However, contempt our team's champion efforts, soft post-pandemic recreation request from Asia, mixed pinch various marketplace challenges, person persisted successful Seoul, arsenic good arsenic successful Fukuoka and Boston, some of which we entered successful 2019."

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The demise of nan Boston-Honolulu way wasn't nan only important alteration announced by Hawaiian Airlines. The bearer besides suspended flights from Hawaii's superior to Seoul, South Korea and Fukuoka, Japan. The hose is shifting its attraction to adding capacity to higher-demand routes to Honolulu. The Airbus A330 planes from nan suspended services will now beryllium flying to Los Angeles, Seattle, Tahiti and Sydney, Australia.

With nary nonstop flights from Boston, nan caller longest home formation successful nan United States is betwixt John F. Kennedy International Airport successful New York and Honolulu. The Yankees mightiness beryllium trailing nan Red Sox successful nan American League East standings, but nan Big Apple is yet different accolade to bent complete nan Bostonians' heads. Our subway strategy didn't request to beryllium commandeered by nan national authorities aft mismanagement led to a train catching occurrence connected a bridge. We're conscionable a amended city, plain and simple.