{"id":349487,"date":"2026-01-15T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hawaiian-airlines-criticized-memo-native-language-axed-inclusivity\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:19:15","slug":"hawaiian-airlines-criticized-after-memo-said-native-language-would-be-axed-for-inclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=349487","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Airlines Criticized After Memo Said Native Language Would Be Axed For Inclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> quickly faced community backlash, after a memo was sent out noting a policy rewrite which had been misworded, suggesting that the airline was set to remove all Hawaiian words to improve <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/inclusion\/\" >inclusivity<\/a>. Once published, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/01\/14\/handbook-rewrite-incorrect-memo-prompt-concerns-hawaiian-airlines\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >the memo spread quickly and was shared online<\/a>. Online critics were quick to assess the situation and called it a loss of the Hawaiian carrier&#8217;s identity before the airline was able to correct its mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memo sparks outrage, but is it a misunderstanding?<\/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":[396,1149,475,516,1026,12245,727,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-merger","category-airports","category-alaska-airlines","category-hawaiian-airlines","category-inclusion","category-language","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349487","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=349487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349707,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349487\/revisions\/349707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}