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Hawaiian Islands Airlines - Hawaiian Airlines is your ticket to Paradise, with daily flights to Hawaii from Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix (beginning October 2002), Ontario and San Diego. Hawaiian also flies daily non-stop to Maui from Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. And once on the Islands, Hawaiian Islands' new fleet of Boeing 717s touches down on all the Islands. Our generosity and courtesy is as warm as our beaches. Hawaiian Airlines. We're your Wings of the Islands.
Interested in how to travel inter-island? If you're not content to explore only one glorious Hawaiian island, know this: five other islands await you, each with a distinct character and its own must-see attractions. Depending on the length of your stay, consider hopping to at least one other island to get a more fulfilling sense of "Hawaii."
Although the occasional cruise ship can deliver you to a number of Hawaii ports of call, the fastest way to island hop is by jet. Air travel from Honolulu to any of the state's commercial-service airports is literally a quick hop, with the following approximate flight times for direct routes:
• Honolulu to Kahului (Maui): 35 minutes
• Honolulu to Kapalua (Maui): 32 minutes
• Honolulu to Hilo (Big Island of Hawaii): 46 minutes
• Honolulu to Kona (Big Island of Hawaii): 41 minutes
• Honolulu to Lihue (Kauai): 35 minutes
• Honolulu to Hoolehua (Molokai): 17 minutes
• Honolulu to Lanai City (Lanai): 23 minutesHawaiian Airlines, the state's largest Hawaii-based airline, operates jet aircraft to Kahului, Maui; Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii; Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii; Lihue, Kauai; Hoolehua, Molokai; and Lanai City, Lanai.
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HAWAII INFORMATION
The first "visitors" to the Islands of Hawaii came not knowing what to expect — or even that the Islands existed. It is generally believed Hawaii's first permanent inhabitants sailed in voyaging canoes from the southern hemisphere islands of the Marquesas, between 300 and 800 A.D. Later waves of settlers arrived by the 12th century, this time from Tahiti.
Population - The 137 islands, islets and shoals that make up the Hawaiian Island chain sit at the northern tip of the Polynesian Triangle, an expanse of ocean roughly the size of Europe and North America combined. As one of the most geographically isolated, continuously populated spots on Earth, Hawaii is a land of many contrasts. Urban Honolulu, the state capital, is a cosmopolitan metropolis with a population of more than 370,000; the entire island of Molokai, a scant 50 miles away, has 7,400 residents.
Climate - While the average annual temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit (23.9 degrees Celsius) fluctuates only a few degrees from summer (May through October) to winter (November through April), the summits of the Big Island of Hawaii's Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are often blanketed with snow.
Terrain - Together, the eight main Hawaiian Islands — Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, Kahoolawe, Lanai and Niihau — are home to virtually every geographic formation, terrain and climate to be found on earth, and the possibilities for outdoor enthusiasts are boundless: There are lava deserts and highland rain forests; the world's tallest sea cliffs and miles of pristine beaches.
What's more, modern Hawaii's culture is every bit as diverse as its geography, with virtually every nation and ethnicity represented in its food, music and art. From hula to hip hop to the Honolulu Symphony, the possibilities for today's visitors are limited only by the imagination.
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