Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc, Hawaiian Holdings
Search every verified Avi Mannis interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote β each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Avi Mannis, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, discussed the airline's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in two appearances on the program "Island Focus." In a 2020 interview, Mannis stated that the airline's focus was on reopening safely using the best available science, maintaining cash reserves, and keeping employees employed through federal aid. He noted that the airline had partnered with the Department of Education on school preparations and emphasized that reopening the visitor industry required collaboration across the community, not just the airline industry. In a 2023 interview, Mannis reflected on lessons learned during the pandemic, including the importance of taking care of employees and remaining engaged with community stakeholders. He described how Hawaiian Airlines established its own chain of testing labs with about 10 locations on the U.S. mainland to make testing accessible for travelers. Mannis said the airline felt a responsibility to communicate testing requirements and safe behavior to passengers. He also stated that economic recovery depends on the visitor industry and called for continued dialogue about sustainable economic growth and diversification.
“Many of the decisions that we had to make in this period of time were financial decisions that were challenging; we really had to be guided not so much by the numbers on the page but by who we were as a brand, who we were in this community, and the role we wanted to play.”
“The state has decided that it is important for people who travel here to be tested before they come so that we can keep our community safe, and we ended up setting up our own chain of testing labs with about 10 locations on the U.S. mainland to make testing as affordable and accessible as possible.”
“It was something I would never have imagined as someone in management in an airline that we would be running a chain of testing laboratories, but it was something we had to do to adapt to the moment and to make sure that we were not just operating commercially but really making sure that as many people who came here we...”
“We have felt a very strong burden of responsibility to make sure that we were communicating to the people who traveled on Hawaiian Airlines about what they need to do to get tested and how they should behave when they come here to keep our community safe.”
Island Focus is a monthly half-hour television series produced by 'Εlelo Community Media as a community service. The showΒ ...
Island Focus is a monthly half-hour television series produced by 'Εlelo Community Media as a community service. The showΒ ...
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