Breaking: 4 More Hawaii Flight Diversions Include Hawaiian & United Today
Just updated at 1:00 pm to reflect there are now four diversions we just learned of, including two more today. Thanks to readers Elizabeth S., Mark B., Nico, and Kevin C. for their input and help with today’s updates. We welcome and appreciate your tips!
In addition to today’s flight diversions at Hawaiian and United, we were apprised of additional Hawaii flight diversions at Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines. Those are shown below.
Hawaiian Airlines A330 Flight 3 from LAX to HNL diverted this morning, returning to Los Angeles about 2 hours after departure. At this time, it is still on the ground. We aren’t sure if the flight is continuing to Honolulu or has been canceled entirely. Reader Nico reported this was caused by a mechanical issue. Coincidentally, editor Jeff was on the Hawaiian flight from LA to Honolulu just two days ago.
First, the United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Honolulu never made it to Hawaii today. Instead, the captain turned the Boeing 777-200 widebody plane back to San Francisco. This was the second United Airlines Hawaii-related flight diversion in two weeks. As you’ll see in the tally we are keeping below, there have been a seemingly unusual number of Hawaii flight diversions very recently.
