Which airline is going to buy Hawaiian Airlines?

[piepieandbuddy]

With all the international expansion in the last few years between Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, you would think they might be a huge target for merger/acquisition? What do you think?

 

[fletch717]

If I was at Hawaiian I would pray that it was anbody but southwest.

 

[SWA Bubba]

With all the international expansion in the last few years between Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, you would think they might be a huge target for merger/acquisition? What do you think?

You're just trying to piss off Dan Roman, aren't you? :laugh:

Bubba

 

[Dan Roman]

You're just trying to piss off Dan Roman, aren't you? :laugh:

Bubba

:beer:

 

[Dan Roman]

OK, I'll bite. But first, Bubba I think you and I are both above thinking what a few of us think on anything here is really worth getting pissed off about.

As far as Hawaiian goes, sure it's always a concern as anything could happen in this business, but.....
1) Hawaiian has a very successful niche right now that works because they are Hawaiian. Paint another name on the side of the airplanes and merge them into a bigger airline and a lot of what makes them successful would go away. In other words, if someone bought Hawaiian, they would be paying for something that would be disappearing after the merge.
2) Hawaiian has a lot of future plan that will bring a lot of benefit to the State of Hawaii. Probably about 10 more new destinations over the next 3 years. They can expand because they are Hawaiian going to these new destinations, any merger could jeopardize that expansion and of course the state gains a lot by all the jobs Hawaiian is creating in Hawaii. As any merger goes, the acquired carrier gets cherry picked and job growth here in Hawaii would be lost. Big no no with the politicians here.
3) Did you notice that AA's list of every possible merger candidate (AK, Republic, JetBlue etc etc) didn't include Hawaiian? Right now AA is the big player in the merger roulette, we were not even on their radar.

Right now Hawaiian is the fastest growing airline in the industry, this is all to the benefit of Hawaii, that wouldn't be easily destroyed.

 

[dalad]

Delta is supposed to be kicking the tires. Someone knows something because the stock price is slowly climbing. It can't seem to bust through 7 a share.

 

[fly4surf]

Maybe the question should be.....

Who is Hawaiian going to buy?

 

[fly4surf]

New Fare Structure, Expanded Fleet Aimed at Kama'aina Customer
HONOLULU, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --*****Hawaiian Airlines today implemented a new fare structure for neighbor island travel that lowers ticket prices across all of its fare classes from 4 to 25 percent.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO)
The new rates, which are available for booking today on www.HawaiianAir.com, are designed to stimulate increased kama'aina travel.
Under the new fare structure, the lowest fare for a one-way nonstop interisland flight (including taxes and mandatory federal fees) is $65 for travel from Honolulu to Kahului and Lihu'e.
The new structure's three lowest fares from Honolulu to Kahului, Lihu'e, Hilo and Kona are all lower than the previously published lowest web fare (see chart below).
In addition, the airline's parent company, Hawaiian Holdings, has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire turbo-prop aircraft with the aim of establishing a subsidiary carrier to serve routes not currently in Hawaiian's neighbor island system.
"We are committed to providing safe, frequent and reliable service that allows our residents to travel more easily between all the islands, and we believe the additional capacity and new fares will encourage that," said Peter Ingram, Hawaiian's executive vice president and chief commercial officer.
The new fare structure complements the additional neighbor island capacity and routes Hawaiian introduced earlier this year. Over the past year, Hawaiian has increased capacity by 13 percent and created a Maui hub to increase service between the Valley Isle, Kaua'i and Hawai'i Island. The turbo-prop subsidiary will allow Hawaiian to further expand capacity with daily flights to rural areas.
Hawaiian has offered "Hawaiian Saver" fare sales over the last several months as a way to test customer response to a variety of pricing options, explained Ingram. The Hawaiian Saver fare, which has some restrictions, proved to be attractive to highly cost-conscious travelers. As a result, Hawaiian Saver fares will now anchor the airline's fare structure as a restricted "guaranteed lowest available fare." All other base fares have also been reduced to provide attractive pricing throughout the day on all of Hawaiian's 170 daily neighbor island flights.
"By offering a greater variety of pricing options across our flight schedule every day we hope to make it easier for people to take the extra trip they might not have taken if the lower fares weren't available," said Ingram. "Having said that, it will always be true that the best value is available to those who book early on HawaiianAir.com, and we encourage all of our customers to do that."

 

[Flyby1206]

New Fare Structure, Expanded Fleet Aimed at Kama'aina Customer
HONOLULU, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --*****Hawaiian Airlines today implemented a new fare structure for neighbor island travel that lowers ticket prices across all of its fare classes from 4 to 25 percent.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040827/LAF044LOGO)
The new rates, which are available for booking today on www.HawaiianAir.com, are designed to stimulate increased kama'aina travel.
Under the new fare structure, the lowest fare for a one-way nonstop interisland flight (including taxes and mandatory federal fees) is $65 for travel from Honolulu to Kahului and Lihu'e.
The new structure's three lowest fares from Honolulu to Kahului, Lihu'e, Hilo and Kona are all lower than the previously published lowest web fare (see chart below).
In addition, the airline's parent company, Hawaiian Holdings, has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire turbo-prop aircraft with the aim of establishing a subsidiary carrier to serve routes not currently in Hawaiian's neighbor island system.
"We are committed to providing safe, frequent and reliable service that allows our residents to travel more easily between all the islands, and we believe the additional capacity and new fares will encourage that," said Peter Ingram, Hawaiian's executive vice president and chief commercial officer.
The new fare structure complements the additional neighbor island capacity and routes Hawaiian introduced earlier this year. Over the past year, Hawaiian has increased capacity by 13 percent and created a Maui hub to increase service between the Valley Isle, Kaua'i and Hawai'i Island. The turbo-prop subsidiary will allow Hawaiian to further expand capacity with daily flights to rural areas.
Hawaiian has offered "Hawaiian Saver" fare sales over the last several months as a way to test customer response to a variety of pricing options, explained Ingram. The Hawaiian Saver fare, which has some restrictions, proved to be attractive to highly cost-conscious travelers. As a result, Hawaiian Saver fares will now anchor the airline's fare structure as a restricted "guaranteed lowest available fare." All other base fares have also been reduced to provide attractive pricing throughout the day on all of Hawaiian's 170 daily neighbor island flights.
"By offering a greater variety of pricing options across our flight schedule every day we hope to make it easier for people to take the extra trip they might not have taken if the lower fares weren't available," said Ingram. "Having said that, it will always be true that the best value is available to those who book early on HawaiianAir.com, and we encourage all of our customers to do that."

Hawaiian regional, hmmm! Keep it on the same seniority list guys, learn from the mistakes of others

 

[Andy]

Go! Airlines will be buying Hawaiian. Ornstein's opening up a restaurant in Honolulu and plans on serving wallaby steaks and platypus burgers - he'll fill the cargo bins on the SYD-HNL runs with fresh supplies.