Question: Once a passenger causes a flight delay or a disturbance on a flight, will the airline involved ever allow them to fly again on their airline?
Answer: “Yes,” said Ann Botticelli, senior vice president for corporate communications and public affairs at Hawaiian Airlines.
Botticelli limited her response to your generic question (which did not mention a specific airline, passenger or event), without discussing an incident last week that saw a Las Vegas-to-Honolulu Hawaiian Airlines flight diverted to Los Angeles due to an unruly passenger.
That passenger had alarmed the flight crew by saying he wanted to take someone “behind the woodshed” over having to pay for a blanket on board, said a Los Angeles Airport Police spokesman. The 66-year-old man was escorted off the plane in Los Angeles but not arrested.
Q: My son goes to college on the mainland and lost his wallet. Will he have to get a new license there?
A: No. He can request a duplicate Hawaii driver’s license by mail or fax, according to the city.
The written request must include specific information, so be sure that he follows the instructions to avoid any delays.
The letter should include the person’s name as it appears on the license; mailing address as it will appear on the license; Social Security number or Hawaii driver’s license number; date of birth; email address (for any necessary correspondence about the request); reason the duplicate is needed (loss, in this case); and the license holder’s signature. A $6 fee also is due, by certified check or money order payable to the City and County of Honolulu.
If your son faxes the letter rather than mails it, he will have to make arrangements with someone in Honolulu to pay the fee for him.
Mail the letter to Driver License Section, P.O. Box 30340, Honolulu, HI 96820-0340; or fax it to 832-2904.
If his photo and signature are found in the Driver License Section’s database, they will be used on the duplicate license. If no image is found, the city will issue a valid-without-photo license, assuming, of course, that no “compliance requirement” is pending in any jurisdiction that would prevent a duplicate from being issued.
Q: On Kalanianaole Highway I saw someone crossing the street waving a bright orange flag, and then they put it in a container of some sort. This was just a single pedestrian, not a school crossing guard or someone with a group. I thought it was a great idea. Do you know anything about this?
A: Yes. You probably saw someone using an E Maka‘ala! (Be Alert!) pedestrian-crossing flag, containers of which have been placed on both sides of certain crosswalks that lack traffic signals in Waianae, Kapolei and Aina Haina.
Pedestrians are encouraged to grab a flag, hold it high and maintain eye contact with the driver in each lane of traffic, according to the Hawaii Bicycling League. Once safely across, they place the flags in a container for use by pedestrians on that side of the street.
The league hopes to expand this program, which depends on community sponsors who check the flag containers periodically. Find more information at hbl.org/flags. Or, if you know that you would like to adopt a crosswalk in this manner (the cost is about $50), email Bicycle@HBL.org.
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Hawaii has a high rate of Type 2 diabetes, yet I can find few Honolulu restaurants or bakeries that offer sugar-free desserts such as cakes, pies and pastries. It would be nice if more would do so and help people who are trying to control their blood sugar and miss their sweets. It could be a moneymaking opportunity! — A reader
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