BUSINESS BRIEFS
Hawaiian Air adding flights
Advertiser Staff
Hawaiian Airlines said it will expand its Honolulu to Los Angeles and Seattle service this summer.
The state's largest airline said it will fly three additional weekly roundtrips between Honolulu and Los Angeles from June 22 through Aug. 16. Hawaiian also will add four weekly flights from Honolulu to Seattle. The new Honolulu to Seattle flights will be year-round.
Hawaiian, which operates more than 100 weekly round-trip flights to the West Coast, said it will add a third weekly flight on its Honolulu to Pago Pago, American Samoa, route.
ROAD RUNNER SERVICE STUMBLES
Customers of Oceanic Time Warner Cable's Road Runner high-speed Internet service lost service for about 15 minutes yesterday afternoon.
The statewide outage also affected customers who use the company's digital phone service. The outage was the result of a problem at a data center in Orange County, Calif., that services Hawai'i customers, said Oceanic Time Warner Cable President Nate Smith.
"Somebody flipped the wrong switch," he said.
The company would not disclose how many customers were affected by the outage.
MARINAS TO GET NONETHANOL FUEL
Aloha Petroleum said it is now delivering gasoline without ethanol to marinas to serve the needs of Hawai'i's boating community.
The nonethanol-blended gasoline, called "Aloha Classic Gasoline," is available for deliveries on O'ahu and the Big Island. The fuel is rated at least 89 octane and contains a detergent additive. It will be distributed only to marinas and marine suppliers with approved storage tanks.
Aloha Petroleum President Bob Maynard said the decision to market Aloha Classic Gasoline is a response to numerous requests from boaters who have experienced problems running ethanol-blended gasoline in their marine engines.
Boaters have reported that ethanol-blended fuel has damaged fiberglass gas tanks, clogged fuel intakes and carburetors and stalled boat engines.
The state last April began requiring that most gasoline sold contain at least 10 percent ethanol. The goal was to reduce the state's dependence on imported oil.
