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« Last post by KB4TEZ on October 29, 2025, 16:21:59 UTC »https://djsaviation.net/the-last-hawaiian-airlines-flight/
It’s the end of an era: the last Hawaiian Airlines flight before the completion of a merger with Alaska Airlines. Flight HA866 will operate from Pago Pago to Honolulu, with a 0540 scheduled arrival time at the airline’s home base on Wednesday, 29 October 2025, a spokesperson confirmed to Airlinegeeks. The service will depart Pago Pago at 2310 local time on Tuesday, 28 October 2025.
From this point forward, while Hawaiian Airlines will continue to operate, it will no longer do so with its own operating certificate; instead, it will operate under the Alaska Airlines umbrella. As a result of this point forward, the HA call sign will be retired, and the airlines will instead operate under a single call sign, AS, placed before the associated flight number for the service, marking a new era.
Specific details of the flight will see HA866 end 95 years of operation under the existing callsign, but for customers, not much will change: all existing tickets will remain valid, and the transition from HA to AS will be automatic.
N370HA will get the honour of operating the final flight; this Airbus A330-200 was delivered to Hawaiian Airlines in April 2014 and named Kuamo’o. Through a Federal Aviation Administration filing, the message was clear that, effective 30 October 2025, the use of the Hawaiian Airlines ICAO three-letter designation HAL and callsign Hawaiian will cease and be cancelled. As a result of this ruling, all HAL and Hawaiian aircraft will begin flying under ICAO 3LD and the call sign ASA/ALASKA. However, the FAA noted that in the flight plan remarks for 60, there’ll be a “Hawaiian livery’ noted.
In October, reporting emerged that the iconic HA code would be removed from the airline’s flights as of April 22, 2026, and that Aeroroutes would flag schedule adjustments on flight numbers commencing October 26, 2025.
That change would result in operating flight numbers, such as HA451/H452 from Honolulu to Sydney, temporarily switching to HA851/852, with the same adjustment across other routes in the airline’s operations.
It’s the end of an era: the last Hawaiian Airlines flight before the completion of a merger with Alaska Airlines. Flight HA866 will operate from Pago Pago to Honolulu, with a 0540 scheduled arrival time at the airline’s home base on Wednesday, 29 October 2025, a spokesperson confirmed to Airlinegeeks. The service will depart Pago Pago at 2310 local time on Tuesday, 28 October 2025.
From this point forward, while Hawaiian Airlines will continue to operate, it will no longer do so with its own operating certificate; instead, it will operate under the Alaska Airlines umbrella. As a result of this point forward, the HA call sign will be retired, and the airlines will instead operate under a single call sign, AS, placed before the associated flight number for the service, marking a new era.
Specific details of the flight will see HA866 end 95 years of operation under the existing callsign, but for customers, not much will change: all existing tickets will remain valid, and the transition from HA to AS will be automatic.
N370HA will get the honour of operating the final flight; this Airbus A330-200 was delivered to Hawaiian Airlines in April 2014 and named Kuamo’o. Through a Federal Aviation Administration filing, the message was clear that, effective 30 October 2025, the use of the Hawaiian Airlines ICAO three-letter designation HAL and callsign Hawaiian will cease and be cancelled. As a result of this ruling, all HAL and Hawaiian aircraft will begin flying under ICAO 3LD and the call sign ASA/ALASKA. However, the FAA noted that in the flight plan remarks for 60, there’ll be a “Hawaiian livery’ noted.
In October, reporting emerged that the iconic HA code would be removed from the airline’s flights as of April 22, 2026, and that Aeroroutes would flag schedule adjustments on flight numbers commencing October 26, 2025.
That change would result in operating flight numbers, such as HA451/H452 from Honolulu to Sydney, temporarily switching to HA851/852, with the same adjustment across other routes in the airline’s operations.