Hawaiian Airlines poised to expand partnerships with Asian carriers, boosting Honolulu’s hub status

Hawaiian Airlines is keen to add and expand partnerships with Asian carriers, capitalising on opportunities as US majors have reduced domestic access to their foreign partners.

Hawaiian has already added codeshares with four Asian airlines over the last three years. It is talking to new potential Asian partners and could also expand some of its existing partnerships to include flights to the mainland US.

New and expanded partnerships for Hawaiian will further build up Honolulu's status as a hub for Asia-mainland US traffic. Honolulu has already emerged as an alternative hub for Asia-US flows as Hawaiian Airlines has expanded its own long-haul network over the last five years from one to nine destinations. As Hawaiian slows down its own Asian expansion, partnerships should drive additional revenue and traffic growth and potentially support expansion of its mainland US network.