Alaska, Hawaiian Swap – The Points Gai for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for the Seattle -Tokio route

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines are making a major change on their flights between Seattle and Tokyo.

Starting in January, it will be Hawaiian Beautiful New Boeing 787 Dreamliner The operation of the route between Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Narita Airport (NRT).

For travelers flying between the two cities, it is a significant upgradation of flying between Prashant Northwest and Japan from the old Airbus A330 of Hawaiian: This shift will swap in a new, state-of-the-art cabin, with business-class suites for older products, which for the old-feding of the aircraft for the old products.

It will also give Alaska Air Group (Alaska and Hawaiian’s original company), the main Seattle rival, a more competitive on-board product with delta air lines on these transpiratory flights.

This would not be good news for every air route, however: A spokesperson confirmed that the airline would transfer one of its existing Dreamliners to upgrade C-NRT from another.

A transpecharma upgrade

Alaska and Hawaiian merged at the end of last year, and immediately announced the plan Launch a global gateway in SeattleHome base of Alaska.

I tagged in May When the airlines launched their long-hall era with the Tokyo service run by Hawaiian.

As for a moment it was for the company as a moment, however, flying the A330 route was definitely not the star of the show, which had large seats and the business-class cabin had a 2x2x2 configuration up, which has a much less attractive product than an aerial on the brand-new fleet of last year’s Dreamliners.

But things will change correctly with the bat in 2026, the company said on Tuesday.

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Between the beginning of January and mid-April, the passengers flying between Seattle and Narita will get the completion of Hawaiian Dreamliner with 34, which characterize the slideing privacy door-not to mention a holistic updated experience in the main cabin.

Before this spring, I told that the company is planning to unveil a one All-new flagship international experience For your long -lasting routes.

Plan, Alaska CEO Ben Minikuki told me, all out of Seattle (including Tokyo One) to operate by Alaska is for all long-lasting international routes-not.

It is not clear when Alaska can take Tokyo flights from his new sister airline, but hopefully see this route more changes in the future, as a new on-board experience.

Alaska has already announced that it will happen Flights to operating dreamliner Rome Started in May 2026.

Booking of Hawaiian Dreamliner for Tokyo

Meanwhile, if you are expecting to use digits and miles to book air-powered flights between Seattle and Tokyo earlier next year, then you have some options:

Keep in mind, you can still transfer miles between your mileage plan and airport accounts.

New loyalty program next month

But there are also major changes on the loyalty front for these newly-prevented airlines. In the coming weeks, Alaska Air Group plans to announce a new joint loyalty program that will serve both airline brands.

It is enough to say, it is the time of major changes in Alaska and Hawaii, and many more growth are on the horizon.