Thousands Rush In To Fill 175 Hawaiian Airlines Jobs

[ellisonz]

POSTED: 6:29 pm HST February 23, 2012
UPDATED: 7:07 pm HST February 23, 2012

HONOLULU -- More than 5,000 people applied for 175 flight attendant positions at Hawaiian Airlines, a record for the company.

Lines spilled out the doors at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall, everyone eager to land a job. The interviewing process is broken up into three steps, and most of the applicants won't get a job.

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Only 500 appllicants will make it to the second interview and continue their journey in the hope of joining the Hawaiian Airlines team.

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Man o man do we need to develop our economy more to create living-wage jobs for the unemployed, underemployed, and next generation.

[mahina]

1. Is THAT what was going on.

Hawaiian is a great company to work for...no wonder.

[ellisonz]

2. Must be...

I would hazard it was an exceptionally well-dressed line!

Has Japanese tourism bounced back from pre-earthquake levels?

[mahina]

3. From post, certainly

still seems so fragile.

Westbound too...the hotel's numbers are up, and their room rates are up, but people's buying habits seem to have changed in a big way. Maybe that's a good thing.

I'd like people to know how much plastic rubbish gets created in Waikiki, and it is NOT recycled, in the vast majority! An astonishing volume of plastic bottles---this stuff has got to stop.

People! You can drink the water out of the tap here...it is fine, better than bottled!

[ellisonz]

4. That's good...

...now if only the hotels would stop trying to break the unions and hire!

I confess, I would use/reuse and recycle 1.5 liter plastic bottles when working outdoors. I could not keep my camelbak clean and after a month or so it developed fungus, made me sick, and then lost whatever decent taste the bladder had, and a replacement wasn't cheap. But yeah, Oahu needs to get a lot better about litter/recycling - hello people, the dump is overflowing!