{"id":55405,"date":"2001-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9691c64c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"9691c65d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9691c65d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"United to halt nonstop to Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8211; United Airlines plans to halt its daily nonstop flights between Chicago and Honolulu as of Feb. 15 &#8211; bringing an end to a service it has offered since 1969.<\/p>\n<p>United spokesman Joe Hopkins said the loss of the Chicago-Honolulu route is tied to the retirement of the last three aging DC-10s in United&#8217;s 600-plus fleet of planes.<\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s decision to drop nonstop Chicago-Hawaii service is not popular with the pilots union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always viewed that service as one of the mainstays of our operations, something we took a great deal of pride in,&#8221; said pilot Herb Hunter, a spokesman for the Airline Pilots Association at United.<\/p>\n<p>United passengers traveling between Chicago and Hawaii soon will have to stop in Los Angeles or San Francisco or change planes, adding two to three hours to what had been a 9 1\/2 hour flight.<\/p>\n<p>Both American Airlines and American Trans Air plan to continue nonstops between Hawaii and Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines plans to halt its daily nonstop flights between Chicago and Honolulu as of Feb. 15 &#8211; bringing an end to a service it has offered since 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}