Virgin America Announces New Service from Los Angeles to Hawaii

Building on the success of the recent launch to Maui and Honolulu from San Francisco, Virgin America has announced they will expand further into the Hawaii market from their second largest hub in Los Angeles. Virgin America will fly daily trips to both Maui and Honolulu starting this spring with one daily flight to both locations and will update their schedule from San Francisco to allow for better connections to Hawaii throughout the entire Virgin America network.

“Since we launched our Hawai’i service last year, we’ve seen firsthand why it is one of the most popular leisure destinations among West Coast travelers. The guest response to our new routes has been extremely positive, which is why we are so pleased to announce that we are expanding our nonstop service to the Los Angeles market,” said Virgin America President and Chief Executive Officer, David Cush. “This new service from LAX not only brings this world class destination to our guests and Elevate members in the Los Angeles area, it opens up a number of roundtrip connecting flights to markets across the country.”

“Virgin America is providing more airline choice and competition to our great state, and we could not be more pleased that they are already adding more routes to the Hawaiian Islands from Los Angeles – our largest originating travel market,” said Governor David Ige. “We look forward to Virgin America’s continued growth and success in serving travelers visiting the Islands.”

“The addition of more seats flying direct between Los Angeles and Honolulu and Los Angeles and Kahului will not only expand the availability to more islands, but provide our visitors with another excellent airline option. We are thrilled to have this easy access for both visitors and residents flying between the West Coast and Hawai’i,” said George D. Szigeti, president and CEO of the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority.”

Beginning May 5, 2016, Virgin America’s Honolulu service is as follows:

Beginning June 14, 2016, Virgin America’s Kahului-Maui service is as follows:

The new scheduled service will compete directly with Delta, Hawaiian, United, and American who all fly between Los Angeles and Maui and Honolulu daily and Allegiant who only flies to Honolulu several times a week.

To launch the new route, Virgin is offering $169 one-way fares to both destinations hoping to drum up excitement for the 3.3+ million visitors who travel from the West Coast to Hawaii. Be sure to watch out for fare matches from the other competitors and for deals from cities that easily connect to LAX such as Seattle, Vegas, New York, and Boston.