Hawaiian Airlines: Boston-Honolulu to be USA's longest-ever domestic route

Hawaiian Airlines will add Boston to its route map, launching nonstop service to Honolulu in a route the carrier says will become the USA’s longest regularly scheduled domestic route in history. The Honolulu (HNL) flights launch April 4, which Hawaiian spins as “timed to offer winter-weary New Englanders a vacation” to Hawaii’s tropical climate. The carrier will offer five flights a week on Airbus A330 widebody jets that include lie-flat seats in business class. “Honolulu will be (Boston) Logan’s 76th nonstop domestic destination, and with New Englanders coming off a long winter this flight’s start date is worth the wait,” said Thomas Glynn, CEO of the Massport agency that operates Boston’s Logan International Airport. Boston had been the largest US market without a nonstop link to Hawaii, according to Hawaiian. “At 5,095 miles, Hawaiian’s BOS-HNL route becomes the longest regularly scheduled domestic route in US history,” the airline adds. The route will overtake the current record-holder, Hawaiian's existing New York JFK-Honolulu route. Flight time from Boston is listed at 11 hours, 40 minutes westbound. The return is 10 hours, 15 minutes. <br/>