Hawaiian Airlines will operate a demonstration flight between Auckland, New Zealand, and Honolulu on Friday’s Earth Day to showcase seven best practices in operational performance that greatly reduce fuel burn and carbon emissions.
The seven environmental markers have been outlined by the Asia and Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions (ASPIRE), a group of worldwide aviation leaders dedicated to advancing environmental stewardship in the industry that certified Hawaiian’s application for this ASPIRE Daily City Pair route.
Hawaiian will use advanced air traffic management procedures from gate to gate and collaborate with air navigation service providers, including Airways New Zealand and the Federal Aviation Administration, to demonstrate all seven of ASPIRE’s best practices, including User Preferred Routes; Dynamic Airborne Reroute Procedures; 30/30 Reduced Oceanic Separation; Time-based Arrivals Management; Arrivals Optimization; Departures Optimization; and Surface Movement Optimization.
Hawaiian said it will use 1 percent less fuel (approximately 1,000 pounds) on the flight, which equates to 230 fewer metric tons of carbon emissions annually.
Navatek gives HPU a catamaran
Hawaii Pacific University is getting a boat to go along with its harborfront campus at Aloha Tower Marketplace.
The nonprofit private university is receiving a 45-foot power catamaran as a donation from local boat building firm Navatek Ltd.
A ceremony to recognize the gift is being held today at Aloha Tower Marketplace along Pier 9.
HPU said it will use the vessel, which was built in 2011 as part of Navatek’s development of lifting-body marine craft for the U.S. Navy, in its educational programs.
HPU acquired the marketplace fronting Honolulu Harbor in 2012 and converted much of what was then a largely vacant retail and restaurant complex into student dorms, classrooms and other facilities.
ON THE MOVE
>> Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort has hired Keri Brown as director of revenue management-transient market. She was previously area manager-hotel services Hawaii for Orbitz Worldwide, a director of revenue management for Highgate Hotels at the Courtyard by Marriott Waikiki Beach, and complex revenue manager, revenue manager-OTA and revenue management analyst for Starwood Properties in Waikiki.
>> DeBartolo Development and JLL has named Alex Kirley marketing director of the Ka Makana Alii regional mall being developed in West Oahu. Her 17 years of marketing, management and public relations experience includes senior marketing manager for Windward Mall and Hawaii Kai Towne Center, vice president of sales and marketing for the Hawaii region for Desert Island Restaurants, and membership, meetings, conventions and incentives coordinator for the Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau.
>> Manoa Heritage Center has named Jessica Welch as its first executive director. She has 16 years of experience in museums, including the Honolulu Museum of Art as well as its ARTafterDARK program and Hawaiian Mission Houses.
