Hawaiian Airlines to suspend Fukuoka, Incheon and Boston routes
August 14, 2025
Hawaiian Airlines will suspend services from Honolulu to Seoul Incheon, Fukuoka and Boston during November to allow it to boost capacity onto other services to Sydney, Papeete, Los Angeles and Seattle. The airline's chief executive Joe Sprague says in a 12 August statement that the decision to suspend the routes was difficuilt, but it has been dealing with "soft post-pandemic travel demand from Asia combined with various market challenges". Hawaiian will operate its last flights from Fukuoka and Boston to Honolulu on 19 November and from Incheon to Honolulu on 21 November. "We remain committed to continuing to provide robust Hawaiian Airlines service between Asia and Hawai'i through our nonstop Japan flights, and via one-stop connections to and from Incheon and beyond with our global partner airlines. These adjustments will ensure we are meeting strong demand for travel to Hawai'i – both internationally and domestically – while providing all our guests access to more destinations," he adds. Schedules data shows that the Incheon services operate five times per week, Fukuoka thrice weekly and Boston four times weekly. The capacity redeployed from those routes will be used to operate previously announced frequency increases on the Sydney, Los Angeles and Seattle to meet peak demand between November and April, as well as boosting Honolulu-Papeete from once to twice weekly from March; Hawaiian will also launch nonstop flights five times a week between Seattle and Incheon on 12 September. It further notes that between Honolulu and Boston, passengers can connect daily on Alaska Airlines' flights via Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and San Diego. In September 2024, Alaska completed its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines.
Spirit Airlines casts doubt on future as a going concern
August 13, 2025
Spirit Airlines has warned that within the next 12 months it may be unable to operate "as a going concern", citing uncertainty about its ability to comply with minimum liquidity covenants. The US carrier emerged from its Chapter 11 restructuring process on 12 March. In an 11 August filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Spirit notes that a surplus of domestic capacity and "continued weak demand for domestic leisure travel" in the second quarter have led to a "challenging pricing environment" and "uncertainties in its business operations". It expects these conditions to persist throughout the year. Dania Beach, Florida-based Spirit also highlights that minimum liquidity covenants in its debt obligations and credit-card processing agreement require financial results to improve at a faster rate than it expects to achieve. It says it may sell certain aircraft, real estate and excess airport gate capacity to raise liquidity. "If these initiatives are unsuccessful, management believes it is probable that the company will be unable to comply with the minimum liquidity covenants under the company's debt obligations and credit-card processing agreement at some point in the next 12 months, which would result in an event of default," Spirit adds. In the second quarter, it made an operating loss of $184 million, deepening a $153 million loss in 2024's second quarter.
AFG places A320 with Yemenia
August 13, 2025
Aircraft Finance Germany has placed an Airbus A320 with Yemenia. The lessor identifies the narrowbody as MSN 5050, and says the jet's placement marks a "cornerstone" of its expansion in the Middle East. Cirium fleets data shows that the 2012-vintage aircraft was previously leased to Royal Air Philippines, and that it joins three A320s that Yemenia has in service. All are owned by the carrier. In 2021, AFG placed an A330 (MSN 883) with Yemenia. This widebody and three A320 narrowbodies were declared total losses in May 2025, Fleets data shows. In posts, Yemenia indicated that the four aircraft had been destroyed by Israeli air strikes on Sana'a airport.