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Island Hopper Trip Report 2013
Dear all,
Here is my final trip report for travel in 2013! I have finally gotten a chance to visit Guam for a wedding of a dear friend of mine. Of course, going to Guam means that I have to fly the Island Hopper, despite it is on United, which is one of my least favorite airlines these days. But you don’t have many choices of carriers when it comes to flying to Guam from the Mainland. I believe that a few Asian airlines are fined by offering fares from Guam to the US via their home countries. Regardless of the limited choices, I settled on flying United on my way to Guam, and the Island Hopper is operated by those former 737s owned by Continental Micronesia. The crews are all formerly Continental Micronesia/Air Mike’s crews and the only difference today is the plane livery itself. United retains the Air Mike’s configuration for its Guam fleet, since there is no economy plus section at all on all these Guam-based 737s. I believe the seats are all updated with the newer United Airlines seats – not the slim ones but another version. Anyway, there have been two trip reports on this Island Hopper flight for the past six months including two video trip reports. So I am not going to say much about it and I will let the pictures speak!
N26232/”3232” Boeing 737-800 Winglet – this plane actually just flew back from Houston and LAX after a month of maintenance check, and the agent that checked me remarked that the plane usually departed from 20s gate, but today it used gate 13. However it allowed me a good chance of taking a few photos.
Loading: It is a pretty full flight, as there are a good number of non-revenue passengers flying all the way from HNL to GUM. Not sure if it is a money losing flight, the loading looks healthy enough for it to be profitable. As expected, the stop with the least passengers deplaning and boarding is Kwajalein Bucholz Army Airfield. Only five passengers boarded at Kwajalein.
Busy day at HNL
My seat 1F
Map of the Island Hopper
Here is the link to the full album:
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/Ca...erDecember2013
December 27, 2013
UA 154 HNL-MAJ Lv0725 (0800 from R/W8L) Arr1035+1 (1050 at R/W7)
Boarding began at 6:58am, and like typical international flights, champagne, orange juice or water is offered as pre-takeoff beverages. Headsets were already on the magazine pocket. The only station without pre-takeoff beverages is at Kosrae International Airport, when the ground staffs tried to push things forward.
Goodbye HNL
Breakfast served on this flight – choices are typical Cheese Omelet or Pancake with sausage patty
I have the pancake entrée.
Same fruit salad to be used on all the three flights with meal services
After breakfast, two movies were shown – Despicable Me II & Austenland, and the typical short subject – United Presents – were played on the shorter legs. Our selection today was Big Bang Theory, the Middle, Chopped and Shark Tank.
Dear all,
Here is my final trip report for travel in 2013! I have finally gotten a chance to visit Guam for a wedding of a dear friend of mine. Of course, going to Guam means that I have to fly the Island Hopper, despite it is on United, which is one of my least favorite airlines these days. But you don’t have many choices of carriers when it comes to flying to Guam from the Mainland. I believe that a few Asian airlines are fined by offering fares from Guam to the US via their home countries. Regardless of the limited choices, I settled on flying United on my way to Guam, and the Island Hopper is operated by those former 737s owned by Continental Micronesia. The crews are all formerly Continental Micronesia/Air Mike’s crews and the only difference today is the plane livery itself. United retains the Air Mike’s configuration for its Guam fleet, since there is no economy plus section at all on all these Guam-based 737s. I believe the seats are all updated with the newer United Airlines seats – not the slim ones but another version. Anyway, there have been two trip reports on this Island Hopper flight for the past six months including two video trip reports. So I am not going to say much about it and I will let the pictures speak!
N26232/”3232” Boeing 737-800 Winglet – this plane actually just flew back from Houston and LAX after a month of maintenance check, and the agent that checked me remarked that the plane usually departed from 20s gate, but today it used gate 13. However it allowed me a good chance of taking a few photos.
Loading: It is a pretty full flight, as there are a good number of non-revenue passengers flying all the way from HNL to GUM. Not sure if it is a money losing flight, the loading looks healthy enough for it to be profitable. As expected, the stop with the least passengers deplaning and boarding is Kwajalein Bucholz Army Airfield. Only five passengers boarded at Kwajalein.
Busy day at HNL
My seat 1F
Map of the Island Hopper
Here is the link to the full album:
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/Ca...erDecember2013
December 27, 2013
UA 154 HNL-MAJ Lv0725 (0800 from R/W8L) Arr1035+1 (1050 at R/W7)
Boarding began at 6:58am, and like typical international flights, champagne, orange juice or water is offered as pre-takeoff beverages. Headsets were already on the magazine pocket. The only station without pre-takeoff beverages is at Kosrae International Airport, when the ground staffs tried to push things forward.
Goodbye HNL
Breakfast served on this flight – choices are typical Cheese Omelet or Pancake with sausage patty
I have the pancake entrée.
Same fruit salad to be used on all the three flights with meal services
After breakfast, two movies were shown – Despicable Me II & Austenland, and the typical short subject – United Presents – were played on the shorter legs. Our selection today was Big Bang Theory, the Middle, Chopped and Shark Tank.
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