Hawaiian Airlines unveils new cabin suites, premium seats and lounges
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaiian Airlines is overhauling its interisland fleet and A330 cabins, as part of parent company Alaska Air Group's long term growth strategy. Airline executives believe the investments can help keep interisland flights affordable, as they manage high fuel costs. On Tuesday, Alaska Air hosted an Investor Day in Seattle and unveiled new lie-flat suites for both its brands, Aurora and Leihoku, as well as a new premium section, luxurious lounges, and different roads to rewards for its Atmos program. Hawaiian Airlines' A330s will be reconfigured with new interiors and four distinct cabins by 2028. "The front cabin will be the Leihoku Suites, full lie flat seats with a door closed suite. The second cabin is something called premium reserve, so think of that as like domestic business class with a little bit larger seats, larger pitch, a different level of service, and then there's premium economy and main cabin," said Hawaiian Airlines CEO Diana Birkett Rakow. The retrofit is designed to cater to different ways people want to fly. That meant cutting 24 main cabin seats per flight and converting 12 more into higher tiers. Other new offerings: a 13,000-square-foot lounge in Terminal 1 at Honolulu airport, and priority check-in and security line bypass for Titanium and Suites guests. And guests can soon decide how they earn rewards points, based on...
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