Executive Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., Hawaiian Holdings
Search every verified Brent Overbeek interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In September 2022, Hawaiian Airlines CEO Peter Ingram discussed the company's decision to suspend full-year capacity and cost guidance due to uncertainty around when Japan would ease travel restrictions. Ingram stated that Japan's gradual relaxation of arrival caps was "not nearly enough to satisfy the underlying demand" and predicted it would be "at least another month or two" before meaningful change occurred. He expressed confidence that Japan's travel demand would "come back very strong" once restrictions were lifted, citing the country's "tremendous historical affinity for travel to Hawaii." Ingram also addressed Hawaiian Airlines' partnership with SpaceX to provide free in-flight internet via Starlink satellites. He explained that the airline had waited to add connectivity because prior satellite technologies "haven't really worked very well over the Pacific." He described Starlink's lower Earth orbit satellites as a "game changer" capable of supporting streaming for all passengers simultaneously, and said the airline expected to begin installations "over the next year or so."
“Because of the uncertainty of the timing of when we can resume a fuller schedule to Japan, we made a decision to suspend that guidance, but we've got guidance out there for the second quarter.”
“We think it is probably going to be at least another month or two before we see meaningful change in that.”
“Japan has a tremendous historical affinity for travel to Hawaii. Really sustained a lot of ups and downs over decades, and I have every confidence that it is going to come back very strong when people are free to travel a little more openly.”
“We waited for a long time to put connectivity on our airplanes because the current generation and prior generations of satellite connectivity for aircraft haven't really worked very well over the Pacific.”
Peter Ingram, Hawaiian Holdings CEO, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss the company's quarterly earnings results, why he decided to ...
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