Hawaiian Airlines

Homegrown safety video for Hawaiian Airlines

In a switch-up from the funny and celebrity-filled in-flight safety videos that are becoming the norm on airlines, Hawaiian Airlines has decided to go heartfelt and local.

The carrier’s new safety video features crew members and their families sharing the crucial information – in picture-postcard Hawaiian locations, including Yokohama Beach and Kualoa Ranch on Oʻahu, Haleakalā National Park and Po‘olenalena Beach on Maui, Waimea Canyon and Waikoko Farm on Kauaʻi and Saddle Road Lava Fields and Umauma Falls on Hawaiʻi Island.

Hawaiian Airlines is having a social media contest (open to U.S. residents only) to celebrate the new video.

The prize: 140,000 HawaiianMiles.

To enter, post a picture to Instagram or Twitter of your favorite Hawaiian location.
Use the hashtage “HAOnlocation” and post your photos by September 18.

Hawaiian Air adds art to ground service truck

As Air New Zealand showed us with its Hobbit-themed planes and Alaska Airlines proved with its Salmon Thirty Salmon planes, airplanes can double as great art pallets.

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Now Hawaiian Airlines is going beyond the airplane livery by having artists paint ground service vehicles.

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To mark the airline’s second anniversary serving the New Zealand market, Hawaiian Airlines had street artists BMD ( who prefer that we don’t see their faces or know their names) paint a ground service truck at Honolulu International Airport with images depicting the landscapes, native animals and cultural backgrounds that are common to both Hawaii and New Zealand.

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Here’s a video of the team painting over the previous Hawaiian-themed artwork they put on the truck.

85th anniversary for Hawaiian Airlines

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Hawaiian Airlines is celebrating its 85th anniversary on Tuesday, November 11 and, in preparation, the airline has been reflecting on its past.

They’ve put out this lavishly illustrated book celebrating and documenting the company’s history.

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The airline has also been going through its archives and shared these photos of the evolution of its uniforms.

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Hawaiian Airlines uniforms – 1943

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Hawaiian Airlines uniform – 1957

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Hawaiian Airlines uniform – 1969

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Hawaiian Airlines uniform – 1974

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Hawaiian Airlines uniform – 1989

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Hawaiian Airlines uniform- 2013

Why is Maui’s Kahului Airport code OGG?

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For most travelers to Maui, the airport code for Kahului Airport – OGG – has been a mystery, if they’ve thought about it at all.

Now there’s an 8-foot tall, 42-foot wide information-packed wall at the airport that tells the story behind the three letter code. And it turns out the airport is named for Capt. Jimmy Hogg, a Hawaiian Airlines pilot,Kaua‘i native and aviation pioneer whose life and flying career is charmingly described in the video below.

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The new history wall is at Gate 19 at Maui’s Kahului Airport and was presented by Hawaiian Airlines, the State Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Transportation Security Administration.

(All photos courtesy Hawaiian Airlines, except for the OGG image, which is courtesy of O8 Left, a really cool line of aviation and airport-related art.