United to launch Honolulu-DC nonstop flight

HONOLULU - United will launch a daily non-stop flight between Washington, D.C. and Honolulu in June - raising to three the number of regularly scheduled direct air connections between Hawaii and the East Coast, the airline announced Tuesday. The airline, which was formed out of a merger between United and Continental, will use Boeing 767-400 planes on the route serving Washington/Dulles International Airport. The company said it was capitalizing on the combined resources of the two airlines. “The flexibility of our fleet allows us to put the right aircraft in the right markets to serve new communities and to add additional flights to communities we already serve,” James Starnes, United's director of domestic planning, said in a statement. Currently, the only nonstop flight from Hawaii to the East Coast is United's route from Honolulu to the airport in Newark, N.J., which serves the New York metropolitan area. Read More