{"id":260863,"date":"2025-08-03T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-erase-hawaiian-airlines\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:00:17","slug":"alaska-airlines-said-it-wont-but-heres-why-people-fear-hawaiian-will-be-erased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260863","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines Said It Won\u2019t, But Here\u2019s Why People Fear Hawaiian Will Be Erased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2023 saw Alaska Airlines <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-gains-hawaiian-routes\/\" >formally announce plans to acquire<\/a> Honolulu-based<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255342\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/hawaiian-airlines\/\"  >Hawaiian Airlines<\/a><\/span>. The merger was eventually completed for $1.9 billion on September 18, 2024, catapulting the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2039971\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/alaska-air-group-record-revenues-a-new-member\/\" >Alaska Air Group<\/a><\/span> to become one of America&#8217;s largest airlines. Many loyal Hawaiian Airlines passengers have become skeptical that one day the Hawaiian name might disappear following the merger, but could this ever happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merged airlines promise to preserve legacy, but doubts linger among loyal fliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1149,476,516,397,1026,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-merger","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-analysis","category-hawaiian-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260864,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260863\/revisions\/260864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}