Delta ends flights between Guam and Japan ADVERTISING Delta ends flights between Guam and Japan HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Delta Air Lines announced it will end flights between Japan and Guam because of low demand just days after another airline
Delta ends flights between Guam and Japan
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Delta Air Lines announced it will end flights between Japan and Guam because of low demand just days after another airline delayed Japan-Guam flights because of North Korea’s threat to attack the island.
Demand was not strong enough for Delta to maintain the route and the last flight will take place in January, said airline spokesman Hiroko Okada.
The carrier’s decision leaves United Airlines as the only U.S. airline with flights between Guam and Japan. Japan Airlines also has flights from Narita airport to Guam.
Delta’s decision came after HK Express delayed Japan-Guam flights until next summer, “citing geopolitical concerns in the region.”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened Guam. The country has fired two missiles over Japan, including one launched Friday.
Guam lost about $9.5 million in tourism sector spending in August because of the threats, the Guam Visitors Bureau said.
There were more than 7,000 cancellations of tours, school groups and business ventures mostly from Japan, the bureau said.
A planned October China Air charter flight to Guam from Taiwan also was canceled because customers were wary about making the trip, according to the bureau.
Kamehameha hale being restored with leftover sugar cane
WAILUKU, Maui (AP) — A nonprofit group that helps preserve and maintain ancient Hawaiian structures found a use for Puunene Mill’s leftover sugar cane that dots the Maui landscape.
Ahu‘ena Heiau Inc. and a group of Maui volunteers spent Saturday stripping 40,000 sugar cane leaves to ship to Kailua-Kona, where they will be used to help restore an ancient hale that served as Kamehameha the Great’s final residence.
The leaves will be used to thatch a hale that occupies the Kamakahonu National Historic Landmark at the edge of Kailua Bay.
“We’re here because, on our island, we don’t have sugar cane leaves in abundance anymore,” said Kenneth Nainoa Perry, a board member of Ahu‘ena Heiau.
The hale’s restoration is scheduled to start in about two months and should be finished in December, said Jacqueline Awa, the group’s treasurer and director.
