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Hawaiian Airlines predicts Australia and New Zealand routes to resume in 2022
July 28th 2021
Hawaiian Airlines senior vice president for revenue management and network planning, Brent Overbeek, said overnight it was likely to be 2022 before flights to Australia and New Zealand resumed from the carrier's U.S. home hub. Read More » "For Australia and New Zealand, we do not expect to resume operations for the remainder of the year due to their restrictions," Overbeek said during Hawaiian's second quarter financial results presentation. Before the onset of pandemic, Hawaiian flew nonstop to Auckland, Brisbane and Sydney from its Honolulu hub. In terms of the airline's key markets of Japan and South Korea, Hawaiian CEO, Peter Ingram, said vaccination rates in the two countries had accelerated recently. "We consider Japan and Korea are likely to recover first among the four major geographies we serve. We still believe that," Ingram said. "We expect to see some of that coming in the fourth quarter. We won't act on publishing schedules until we are closer to the policy changes necessary to embark on a recovery." Hawaiian reported a US$6.2 million net loss for the three months to June 30, an improvement from a US$107 million net loss 12 months ago.
