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Get Lei'd: Hawaiian Airlines is Hiring Flight Attendants

February 7, 2012 at 8:45 AM | by | Comments (0)

It might not be quite as luxurious or exciting as it is on television, but if you’ve always thought of being a flight attendant then now’s the time to do so. Hawaiian Airlines—the unofficial airline of paradise—is now looking for flight attendants to help them expand across the islands and the world.

There's already plans for a New York City-to-Honolulu flight, and who knows where else they might be headed to in the future. In total there are around 175 new flight attendant positions available, but you better get that resume ready as the deadline is February 14.

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More Hawaiian Planes to Maui and What This Means for Island Hopping

January 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM | by | Comments (0)

There’s more flights and airplanes arriving and departing from Kahului Airport in Maui, and that’s good news for those Hawaii vacationers—and locals—looking to island hop. Hawaiian Airlines has seen quite the boost in the number of travelers between the different islands, so they’re boosting up their efforts in Maui and starting a new hub.

Unfortunately this new hub status at OGG doesn’t mean nonstop flights to and from New York City anytime soon, but it should make it a little bit easier to see different slices of paradises with a quick interisland flight. The Valley Isle will be getting like 25 additional flights to neighboring airports over the next few week, and a third of the new options will be nonstop flights from Maui to both Kauai and the Big Island. That means it’s less likely that you’ll have to connect back over in Honolulu on Oahu; you can just head from Maui to your next destination in 30 minutes-ish or less.

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Hawaii Now One Major Step Closer to Becoming Gay Wedding Hot Spot of 2012

January 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

Happy New Year! Also, happy year that more same-sex couples will achieve equal (or at least equal-er) rights. Just yesterday, January 1, two more US states switched to legally recognizing and performing civil unions. These are Delaware and Hawaii. For the moment, let's focus on the latter.

Hawaii is the only US state west of the Mississippi River to allow same-sex civil unions. None have gone so far as marriage (the California Prop 8 debacle came closest) and what this means for gay couples is that their union—not just the honeymoon—can also happen in the Aloha State.

According to The Baltimore Sun/KTLA, the turning of the calendar immediately coincided with the law going in effect:

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Chicago's Other, Other Airport is About to Get Busy

December 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM | by | Comments (2)

It’s not even Friday, and we’re already excited about some new routes. Mokulele Airlines usually does their thing flying back and forth between different Hawaiian Islands, but if all goes well they’ll soon be flying all the way to the greater Chicagoland—and beyond.

Right now the plan kind of hinges on a decision from Uncle Sam and his buddies at the FAA, but the plan would have Mokulele Airlines arrive at Chicago-Rockford International Airport (not O'Hare and not Midway) as early as March. The flights would be operated as a charter through the airlines’ Mokulele Tours group, as some chilly citizens would be whisked all the way to Honolulu through nonstop flights.

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'From JFK, on the Beach the Same Day': Hawaiian Airlines to Fly Direct from NYC to Hawaii

November 16, 2011 at 3:39 PM | by | Comments (2)

212 and 808. Respectively, they are the area codes for dialing New York City and Hawaii. Today, however, they are also the prices for a one-way economy or first class seat on Hawaiian Airlines' just announced direct flights from New York-JFK to Honolulu starting in June 2012.

That's right. $212. To Hawaii. Non-Stop. With complimentary in-flight meals, pillows and blankets. That's all great and good, but the problem is these sale fares are going fast. Already we're seeing them raise to the $300s as planes fill for—believe it or not—autumn 2012. It just goes to show how needed this route is, since United née Continental is the only other airline making the 10-hour, 5,000-mile trek (and they dumped their free in-flight meal and other niceties almost one year ago).

The details: flights will be on an Airbus A330-200, with 18 first class seats and 276 economy (32" seat pitch in econ). Book 'em, Danno.

For a better perspective on how the new Hawaiian flights will go down, we met with the airline's CEO Mark Dunkerley this morning, mere hours after even airline crew found out they'd soon be flying to NYC.

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Jetsetter.com Wants to Sleep With You, But In a Big Fancy House This Time

September 12, 2011 at 1:04 PM | by | Comments (0)

Pardon us for uttering two very dirty words: vacation rentals. Ew, right? Renting someone else's house is like, for old people and big families and stuff, not for cool people. Or so that's what we thought up until this week, because lovely little Jetsetter.com has gone and launched Jetsetter Homes, with villas and condos and beach bungalows (oh my!) to add to the variety of hotels regular Jetsetter already offers.

Yes, they'll be on limited sale. Yes, you can score a first booking credit of $500 if you book for at least five nights before the end of October. It's standard Jetsetter stuff, just taken to another level.

It maybe seems like there's nothing Jetsetter can't do, what with their grabbing the first discounted rooms at the Armani Hotel Dubai, offering the occasional private jet deal and even planning your trip for you if you're into that sort of thing. They still haven't quite gotten their grip around First Class seats on regular airlines, but that's something we're willing to wait for.

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Ben Stiller, Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon Hang Ten in Hawaii

August 17, 2011 at 12:25 PM | by | Comment (1)

For celebrities, summer vacation means sand and surf and it looks like this year their beaches of choice are in Hawaii.

Just yesterday, Julia Roberts was spotted laying under a makeshift tent built out of branches and sarongs on the beach in Kauai, along with her husband, Danny Moder and their three kids, twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, and son Henry. The famous family went swimming, played on bodyboards and ate sandy sandwiches for lunch, just like the rest of us.

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And Travel Flash Mob of the Month Goes to: Hawaiian Airlines' In-Flight Hula

July 25, 2011 at 9:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

Here’s a fun little video to start off your week, as well as something that’s slightly depressing because you’re at work and not on your way to paradise. Earlier this month Hawaiian Airlines arranged a little bit of an in-flight flash mob in the form of a live hula performance at 38,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean. It’s hardly a massive get together filled with social media addicts, but it is a nicely arranged introduction to Hawaii—as well as some of the best live in-flight entertainment around.

The San Francisco-based hula school Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu performed the dance en route to the islands from the City by the Bay on July 14. There were a couple traditional songs played during the performance along with I Left My Heart In San Francisco—ha.

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They're Not Doing Hawaii Yet, But Allegiant Air Gets One Step Closer

July 13, 2011 at 8:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

Remember way back when, when we found out about Allegiant Air and their plan to bring cheap-o Hawaii flights to the masses? Unfortunately we’re not quite there yet, but we are one step closer to getting to paradise for just a song. The airline had to buy some new planes that could make it all the way to Hawaii—they’re Boeing 757s in case you were wondering—but until recently Allegiant Air hadn’t been flying them.

Uncle Sam—and his pals over in the FAA—just gave the airline the necessary stamps and approvals to start using their new planes, so now’s the time for them to hit the skies. Initially Las Vegas is the big winner, as Sin City will be welcoming vacationers and locals via nonstop flights from McAllen, Texas and Rockford, Illinois aboard these new planes.

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Unions Rush to Protect Deadbeat TSA Screeners at Honolulu Airport

June 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

Covering TSA scandals is always kind of a pain. Whenever the agency commits an obvious mistake or wants to adopt a boneheaded policy, it's never possible to just write about that. On top of the actual mistake or policy, there's always the spectacle of the agency just randomly making things up to make criticism go away.

When TSA officials accidentally released classified information, they brazenly insisted that it was no big deal. When racial screening was discovered at Newark, the agency absurdly declared that they were retraining every single worker at the airport. When critics worried about data being saved on full-body scanners, TSA lied and said that wasn't possible. And so on.

Rewind to June 2010, when we started tracking efforts to have TSA employees unionize, and we expressed the same concerns as many other critics: that newly-unionized TSA agents would use their membership to avoid accountability for poor performance. Pro-union TSA officials responded by insisting that unions would have nothing to do with "any topics that might affect security," in response to which we wrote an extended debunking describing the promise as "insultingly stupid."

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Olivia Wilde Would Like to Get Maui Pregnant

June 16, 2011 at 1:35 PM | by | Comments (0)

Young Hollywood is basking in Maui's sun (and accolades) this week. Yesterday, Andrew Garfield, Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund came out to support Megan Fox as she received the Iris Award at Maui Film Festival's Celestial Cinema.

Andrew and Olivia will receive their own honors at the festival this week when they presented with the Shining Star Awards, while Garrett will receive the Rising Star Award.

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My First Flight: 'Flying Was a Risky Business. I Would Soon Learn Just How Risky.'

June 7, 2011 at 9:35 AM | by | Comments (0)


A Pan Am Boeing B-314 Flying Boat. Click to see a cutaway.

Everybody has a story about their first time. The anticipation, the nerves, the worry...but then the pure wonder when you finally take off. Of course we're talking about your first flight—the first time you boarded an airplane and discovered the skyways. We're telling those stories in a new series simply called "My First Flight." Want to share your first flight story? We've love to have it! Send it along to us here.

This story comes from Mr. Ed Dover, a Jaunted reader. Enjoy!

My very first time aloft in an airplane was an orientation flight over San Francisco Bay on board one of the Martin M-130 Clippers. The flight deck of the Martin was rather cramped compared to the Flight deck of the Boeing B-314. I was a Flight Radio Officer, and radio operators sat at a small desk directly behind the co-pilot and the flight engineer sat on what amounted to a small shelf just above and behind that. If the radio operator was in his seat, he would have to get out and step down to the main deck in order to allow the flight engineer access to his respective operating location.

My next assignment was to get outfitted for my uniforms...

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