{"id":2990,"date":"2009-12-14T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2016-12-16T23:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:46:17","slug":"new-hawaii-flights-waikiki-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/new-hawaii-flights-waikiki-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hawaii flights, Waikiki hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n

HAWAII HOTLINE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alaska Airlines Is the Hot New Player: <\/strong>Rampaging oil prices early last year wiped out Aloha and ATA, two carriers that had been growing their mainland-to-Hawaii route networks. Into the gap has come — surprise! — Alaska Airlines<\/strong>, which is hubbed and headquartered in Seattle. Alaska launched two new routes in November (Oakland-Maui <\/strong>and Oakland-Kona<\/strong>) and announced three more (San Jose-Maui on March 11; San Jose-Kona on March 12 and Sacramento-Maui on March 26<\/strong>). And even though it didn’t even fly to Hawaii until October, 2007, Alaska now will have 73 roundtrip flights<\/strong><\/a> a week. That’s an astounding 11 percent of Alaska’s total capacity.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the big news in Honolulu is the Trump International Hotel Waikiki<\/strong><\/a>, a condo hotel that opened in mid-November. The rooms and they are stunning: gigantic, with lavish kitchens, top-flight furnishings and all-marble bathrooms. It’s not only the first luxury hotel<\/strong><\/a> in Waikiki in a generation, it’s also unlike anything else in town. “Introductory” rates are surprisingly affordable, too: $255 a night for a studio and $435 for a studio with an oceanfront view. They’ll sleep four. Trump’s one-bedroom suites start as low as $525 a night.<\/p>\n

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