Hawaiian Airlines Increases Tokyo Capacity

Hawaiian Airlines has started using its newest and largest aircraft, the Airbus A330-200, to operate its daily, nonstop flights between Honolulu and Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.

Hawaiian’s transition from its 264-seat, wide-body, twin-aisle Boeing 767-300 aircraft to the 294-seat, wide-body, twin-aisle A330 aircraft will add nearly 11,000 seats annually to Honolulu from Tokyo, while also offering customers new features and amenities to make travel more enjoyable.

“The return of healthy demand for our Tokyo service is allowing us to proceed with our plan to operate our largest aircraft on the route,” said Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian’s president and CEO. “After the drop in travel following the earthquake and tsunami, we are encouraged by the way the market has bounced back. We want to welcome more visitors to Hawaii from Japan and encourage more of our customers from Hawaii and the mainland U.S. to visit Japan.” 

Coach Class customers can now enjoy the A330’s comfortable new interior, increased legroom, and the state-of-the-art, on-demand entertainment system with high-resolution LCD touch-screen monitors in each seatback to select from a wide variety of movies and video programs, audio channels and video games. Each system also includes a USB port allowing connectivity for personal media players.

First Class customers also enjoy larger in-seat LCD screens and iPOD compatibility.

Hawaiian’s Flight #457 departs Honolulu International Airport daily at 18:55 and arrives at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport at 22:05 the following day. Return Flight #458 departs Haneda daily at 23:55 and arrives in Honolulu at 12:35 the same day.

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