Hawaiian Airlines on April 1 plans to begin levying a surcharge on U.S. bookings made via legacy GDS technology, a move that will make it the first U.S. carrier to impose a GDS surcharge.
The carrier also said it will remove all intra-Hawaii flight from the GDSs on April 1 for U.S. points of sale.
To avoid the surcharge or to book intra-Hawaii flights, U.S. travel advisors will have to book on the carrier’s approved NDC-enabled channels.
“As a destination airline focused on leisure travel to, from and within Hawaii, it is essential that we continue to invest in more modern and efficient technologies to better tailor our products and services to the Hawaii traveler,” Theo Panagioutoulias, Hawaiian’s senior vice president of global…