E hoʻokuʻi ʻo Hawaiian Airlines i ka mokupuni ʻo Hawaiʻi me nā Mokupuni Kuki e hoʻomaka ana i Mei 2023 me kahi lele hebedoma ma waena o Honolulu (HNL) a me Rarotonga (RAR). ʻO ka lawelawe, e hoʻomaka ana i ka lā 20 o Mei, i ka manawa no ke kau huakaʻi kauwela US, e hāʻawi i nā huakaʻi hele mai nā kūlanakauhale ʻīpuka he 15 o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa o Hawaiʻi i ka hoʻokuʻi hoʻokahi i ka Nā ʻAilana o Kuke.
"Ua hauʻoli mākou i ka hoʻonui ʻana i kā mākou pūnaewele Pākīpika Hema ma ka hāʻawi ʻana i kā mākou poʻe malihini i ka pae ʻāina ʻo Cook Islands, kahi pae ʻāina i kaʻana like i ka moʻomeheu Hawaiʻi a me ka nani maoli," wahi a Peter Ingram, Hawaiian Airlines pelekikena a Luna Nui.
"Ke hoʻonui nui nei kēia lawelawe i nā manawa huakaʻi ma waena o nā Mokupuni Kuki a me ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, mahalo i kā mākou mau pilina kūpono a me ka pūnaewele paʻa, me ka lawelawe ma waena o Hawaii a me ʻewalu mau kūlanakauhale Kaleponi."
"Ma ke ʻano he mokulele huakaʻi hele 93 makahiki i kūpaʻa i ka hoʻomau, he hoa kūpono ʻo Hawaiian Airlines no nā Mokupuni ʻo Kuki," wahi a ke Kuhina Nui o Cook Islands Mark Brown.
“Aloha mākou i kēia hoʻolaha kūpono mai ka Hawaiian Airlines, ke nānā nei mākou e kūkulu hou i kā mākou ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi a hoʻoikaika i ke komo ʻana i ko mākou mau mākeke ʻākau. ʻO ka mākaʻikaʻi inbound kahi mea hoʻokele waiwai nui no ko mākou lāhui, a no ka hiki ʻana i ko mākou pono pono mākou e komo mai nā mākeke honua nui aʻe. Hoʻohui ka lawelawe ʻo Honolulu-Rarotonga iā mākou i Los Angeles, ka Pākīpika Northwest, a me nā kūlanakauhale nui ʻē aʻe o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.
E hoʻomaka ana ke kūʻai ʻana i nā tikiki no ka lawelawe ʻo Honolulu-Rarotonga i ka lā 7 o Dekemaba.
E haʻalele ana ka mokulele HA495 iā Honolulu i ka hola 4 pm o ka Pōʻaono a hōʻea i Rarotonga i ka hola 10:25 pm o ia lā hoʻokahi.
E haʻalele ana ka huakaʻi hoʻi, HA496, iā Rarotonga i ka hola 11:35 pm i nā lā Sābati me ka hola 5:50 a hiki i ka Pōʻakahi ma Honolulu.
