A Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N193DN performing flight DL-1150 from Honolulu,HI to Los Angeles,CA (USA), was accelerating for takeoff from Honolulu’s runway 08R when the right hand engine (PW4060) emitted a bang followed by vibrations prompting the crew to reject takeoff at high speed. The aircraft vacated the runway via the first high speed exit about 2400 meters down the runway and returned to the terminal.
A passenger reported the aircraft was about 1000 feet into its takeoff roll from the reef runway when the right hand engine emitted a loud bang followed by moderate vibrations. The crew rejected takeoff and returned the aircraft to the apron.
A replacement Boeing 767-300 registration N154DL reached Los Angeles with a delay of 4 hours.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Honolulu until Dec 16th, then was ferried to Atlanta,GA (USA) and is now still on the ground in Atlanta.
The Aviation Herald
Hawaiian Airlines launches Honolulu-Narita flight
Hawaiian Airlines on Monday announced a new daily nonstop service between Honolulu International Airport and Narita International Airport in Tokyo, which is expected to land Hawaii with an additional $130 million in visitor spending.
The new service will take off on July 22 next year.
“Japan is Hawaii’s largest international market with arrivals from the market making up 18 percent of total arrivals to the state in 2014,” George Szigeti, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said in a statement. “Hawaiian Airlines’ daily flight from Narita to Honolulu is projected to contribute an annual $130 million in visitor spending and $14.7 million in state tax revenue.
“With the recent announcement that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking to expand pre-clearance operations at Narita, this flight will provide additional service from one of our core markets.”
This is Hawaiian Airline Inc’s (Nasdaq: HA) 11th international destination and its fourth to Japan. The airline already operates daily flights to Tokyo Haneda Airport, Osaka Airport and Sapporo Airport.
“We’ve had the pleasure of carrying more than 800,000 visitors between Haneda and Honolulu since the launch of our daily A330 service more than five years ago,” said Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian’s president and chief executive officer. “With average load factors routinely exceeding 90 percent, it is clear Japanese travelers have chosen Hawaiian as their carrier of choice when visiting our beautiful islands.”
There are currently only four routes between the U.S. and Haneda. Delta Air Lines Inc. has been in a dispute with American Airlines Group Inc. about the rights to fly to the airport. Delta gave up one of those routes to American in June after a fight between the two airlines. However, it has since argued that its rival should cede the route after it didn’t start service within 60 days. The U.S. Department of Transportation has given American until March 27 to begin the flights to Haneda airport.
Hawaiian’s new Tokyo flight will take off from Honolulu at 3:30 p.m. and land in Narita at 7 p.m. the following day. The return fight will leave Narita at 9 p.m. and arrive at Honolulu at 9:55 a.m. the same day, after crossing the international dateline.
Pacific Business News
Hawaiian Airlines
Allegiant drops Hawaiian market and the 757
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will say aloha to Hawaii and end its nonstop service between the U.S. mainland and Honolulu in August.
Representatives of the company announced to employees Monday and Tuesday that it would retire its Boeing 757 fleet instead of undertaking the expense of “D check” maintenance, the most thorough overhaul that aircraft undergo, normally occurring about once every six years.
Jude Bricker, Allegiant’s senior vice president of planning, told Honolulu-based Allegiant employees about the plans in person on Monday. Those employees will be offered positions elsewhere in the Allegiant system.
Other employees were told at a town hall-style meeting Tuesday.
Allegiant began flying to Hawaii in 2012, initially offering its successful formula of linking resort communities with small cities. In the early going, the airline flew routes to Honolulu from Fresno and Stockton, Calif., Eugene, Ore.; and Boise, Idaho, in addition to Las Vegas. It eventually added Hawaii flights from Mesa, Ariz., and Bellingham, Wash., introducing Maui service from the Washington border community.
But Allegiant ended its Bellingham flights in September 2014 and its Mesa-Honolulu service in December that year. Now, Allegiant only flies to Honolulu from Las Vegas and Los Angeles International Airport.
Speaking on background, an Allegiant executive said a decision was reached to retire the company’s five twin-engine Boeing 757 jets when they accumulate enough hours to require a D check. Considered the most rigorous maintenance event, D checks normally take about 50,000 man hours to complete, can take two months to finish and essentially involves taking the entire aircraft apart to be refurbished or have parts replaced.
Rather than bear the expense of the heavy maintenance, the company opted to retire the planes since there’s virtually no aftermarket for the used 757s.
When Allegiant started Hawaii service, it had six 757s. One plane has already been retired. Three of them will be due for D checks by the beginning of the fourth quarter leading to the decision to end Hawaii service prior to the Labor Day holiday. The two remaining 757s will fly routes from Las Vegas until they reach the end of their flying cycles.
When employees got the bad news about Hawaii, they got some good news about their paychecks.
At the meeting, employees were told that the board of directors voted to pay a one-time bonus to them as a result of the company’s profitable year to date. Eligible employees will receive 5 percent of the amount they have been paid through the first three quarters of 2015. Bonuses will only go to non-executives below the vice presidential level.
That means an employee who makes $40,000 a year would receive a bonus of about $1,500.
Bonus checks will be delivered in mid-December.
There are 470 Allegiant employees at McCarran International Airport and 724 at the company’s corporate headquarters in Las Vegas. Systemwide, there are 2,944 employees. Of them, there are 19 that are vice presidents or higher that won’t be eligible for bonuses.
Las Vegas Review-Journal