Hawaiian Air eyes Hawaii-Europe nonstop flights

By Lee Catterall

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 10, 2013

~~<p>Billionaire British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has not come through with his idea six years ago of having his London-based Virgin Atlantic fly nonstop regularly between Honolulu and London, but Hawaiian Airline has similar flights on its agenda of possibilities.</p>
<p>"We are studying traffic from Europe to Hawaii and, hopefully, five years from now, the number of Europeans in Hawaii will be sufficient to justify operating flights nonstop from Hawaii to Europe," said Hawaiian Airlines' Mark Dunkerley.</p>
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Billionaire British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has not come through with his idea six years ago of having his London-based Virgin Atlantic fly nonstop regularly between Honolulu and London, but Hawaiian Airline has similar flights on its agenda of possibilities.

"We are studying traffic from Europe to Hawaii and, hopefully, five years from now, the number of Europeans in Hawaii will be sufficient to justify operating flights nonstop from Hawaii to Europe," said Hawaiian Airlines' Mark Dunkerley. Login for more...