Hawaiian Airlines has announced plans to suspend thrice-weekly nonstop service between Honolulu and Taipei, Taiwan, on April 6, less than one year after the carrier launched the route.
Hawaiian said it will reassign the 294-seat Airbus 300-200 aircraft currently in use on the Honolulu-Taipei flight to its Honolulu-Seoul, South Korea route, a segment the airline will drop from a daily to five-times-weekly April 23.
“The increase in travelers we have come to expect, when the U.S. visa waiver was extended to additional countries, has not materialized in Taiwan,” Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
Hawaiian also faced competition from China Airlines, which launched twice-weekly nonstop service between Taipei and Honolulu last summer.
The Honolulu-Taipei segment is the third international route Hawaiian has canceled following an aggressive expansion into Asia and Oceania in recent years.
The carrier announced plans to end service between Honolulu and Fukuoka, Japan, last week and dropped its Honolulu-Manila flight in August 2013.
Hawaiian intends to inaugurate service between Honolulu and Beijing this April.