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Hawaiian Airlines canceled Monday’s flights in both directions between Honolulu and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York due to Winter Storm Stella.
The airline said it is attempting to contact and reaccommodate customers on all canceled flights.
Hawaiian also said it will waive reservation change fees and differences in fares for customers traveling to, from or via JFK through Wednesday. Changes must be made prior to the original departure date for new flights departing on or before Friday.
The airline said all change fees and applicable fare differences will be waived provided that original flights were ticketed on or before Sunday. Changes must be made in the same class of service (such as coach to coach or first to first) and are based on seat availability and subject to restrictions.
Changes must be made through Hawaiian’s reservations department or at the airport. Customers needing assistance should call Hawaiian’s reservations desk at 800-367-5320 or monitor the airline’s website, HawaiianAirlines.com, for updates.
State’s jobless rate second lowest in U.S.
Hawaii officially has the second-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
The U.S. Department of Labor released jobless rates Monday for all the states, and New Hampshire led the way with an unemployment rate of 2.7 percent. Hawaii, whose number was released by the state Friday, was second at 2.8 percent. Colorado and South Dakota were tied for third at 2.9 percent.
New Mexico has the nation’s highest unemployment rate, at 6.7 percent, followed by Alaska at 6.5 percent and Alabama at 6.4 percent.
Intel gets into self-driving car business
SAN JOSE, Calif. >> Intel is accelerating into the self-driving car business with a $15.3 billion deal to buy Mobileye, in one of the biggest deals so far for the autonomous-vehicle industry and the chip maker.
The deal improves Intel’s competitive position against other tech leaders in the driverless-car business, such as Tesla, Uber and Google parent Alphabet. It also helps Intel advance against chip maker Qualcomm, which owns automotive chip supplier NXP Semiconductors.
Mobileye develops computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localization and mapping for advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving.
ON THE MOVE
Central Pacific Bank has appointed Suman Sami to vice president/division manager of retail brokerage for Central Pacific Investment Services. Her responsibilities include overseeing and managing the bank’s insurance, financial planning services and retail investment. Sami has 29 years of banking experience in operations and sales management, including previously managing the IRAs and the Investment Services Department at the Orange County (Calif.) Credit Union.
Watanabe Ing LLP has named Jeffrey T. Ono as a new partner in the Government and Regulatory Affairs Group. He will continue to oversee civil litigation matters. Ono has more than 30 years of civil litigation experience, including serving as executive director of the Division of Consumer Advocacy in the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
Hawaii Foodbank has announced the following new hires: Malcolm Inamine, chief administrative officer; Laura Kay Rand, senior grant and communications manager; Bev Santos, special events manager; and Carol Abejuela, accountant and human resources administrator.
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