No Leis for Hawaiian Flight Attendants as Alaska Merger Strain Grows
About 250 Hawaiian Airlines flight attendants based in Seattle must stop wearing leis, flowers, and aloha shirts on Alaska-branded Boeing 787 flights under new uniform rules. The change comes as Alaska Air Group merges operations and expands long-haul routes from Seattle to cities like Rome and London. Alaska and Hawaiian continue as separate brands but now share systems and a single FAA operating certificate.