ATA Airlines' New Service to Kona, Lihue, and Las Vegas-Maui (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) INDIANAPOLIS----ATA Airlines announced three new routes from the Hawaiian Islands to the U.S. Mainland starting June 14th: Between Kona and Oakland - 3x a week Between Lihue and Oakland - 4x a week Daily between Las Vegas and Maui...more...United to offer flights from Denver to Maui (Rocky Mountain News) United Airlines has launched a new daily seasonal flight between Denver and Maui, helping cut travel time to the popular vacation island....more... Resort Fees at Hawaii Hotels Cause 'Checkout Sticker Shock' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) According to Travel Hawaii LLC , a leading Hawaii Internet booking service, over 16 of Hawaii's leading hotels -- mainly high end resorts -- charge mandatory "Resort Fees" of up to $26 per day that are automatically added to guests' bills upon checkout....more... Flight attendants feel wrath of fliers (USA Today) Flight attendant Jackie Hamilton was stunned in March when a passenger allegedly spoke a racial epithet and spit on her shoe when getting off a United Express plane in Albany, N.Y....more... Resort Fees at Hawaii Hotels Cause 'Checkout Sticker Shock' (Linux World) charge mandatory "Resort Fees" of up to $26 per day that are automatically added to guests' bills upon checkout. These fees can cause "checkout sticker shock" if guests don't include them in their pre-trip cost calculations. And often the hotels' own web sites don't make such fees apparent....more... Flight attendants feel wrath of fliers (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul) Flight attendant Jackie Hamilton was stunned in March when a passenger allegedly spoke a racial epithet and spit on her shoe when getting...more... Alaska Air's entrance will mean 3,000 seats a week from Anchorage to Hawaii (Alaska Journal of Commerce) Alaska Airlines is heading to the Aloha state from Anchorage starting this December....more... TODAY?S TOP 10 (The Kansas City Star) 1. PRESIDENT PAYS HOMAGE TO FALLEN TROOPS ...more... News Something in the water (Haleakala Times) The following article was originally printed in The Honolulu Weekly on April 11. Reprinted with permission of author. It?s a refrain that has become frighteningly familiar: Relics of a long forgotten military operation turn up where they aren?t supposed to be, causing alarm in the community....more... |