{"id":301219,"date":"2025-10-14T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/non-existent-widebody-aircraft-hawaiian-airlines-ordered\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:00:17","slug":"never-made-the-non-existent-widebody-aircraft-that-hawaiian-airlines-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301219","title":{"rendered":"Never Made: The Non-Existent Widebody Aircraft That Hawaiian Airlines Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, <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> placed a headline order for six Airbus A350-800 models alongside six older-generation Airbus A330-200s, a two-pronged plan that was designed to modernize long-haul flying in the near term. The addition of Airbus A350 models to the fleet later was meant to add to the airline&#8217;s operational capabilities. Sales of the smallest Airbus A350 variant ultimately stalled, and the manufacturer moved to kill the program and steer customers towards re-engined Airbus A330neo variants instead. Starting in 2014, Hawaiian Airlines ultimately swapped out its six Airbus A350-800s for six Airbus A330-800neo models. This pivot would ultimately prove temporary, and Hawaiian Airlines would ultimately cancel its Airbus order altogether and shift towards purchasing Boeing 787s instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These jets never actually entered service.<\/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":[430,396,1026,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-aircraft","category-hawaiian-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301219","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=301219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301220,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301219\/revisions\/301220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}