LOS ANGELES to HILO
For the past few weeks, I’ve really been wanting to fly to Hawaii, surprising I know. A couple weeks ago I flew San Francisco to Lihue, but since I haven’t flown to Kona in a while, and (this sounds weird) I’ve been missing the Big Island. I decided to fly into Hilo which is on the East side of the island. Hilo has a population of 43,000 which makes it the 2nd biggest town in Hawaii, after Honolulu which has 360,000. Hilo used to be the main tourist destination on the Big Island, but tourism has recently shifted to Kona on the West side of the island. This is because Hilo gets a lot of rain, almost 130 inches, or 10 feet per year, Hilo is actually the wettest City or town, in the United States. This 130 inches is compared to only 10 inches of rain per year just 2 hours west in Kona. Back in the late 1960s and 70s, Hilo was the major airport on the island, Pan Am served destinations such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1968, Northwest Airlines operated flights between Hilo and Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, and New York with a stop in Seattle, without a change of plane. Starting the 2000s, Hilo airport became less and less known as flights switched to Kona. Hilo has arguably the most scenic approach in all of Hawaii in my opinion, but currently, it’s only destinations are Los Angeles, with United, and Honolulu with Hawaiian and Southwest. United uses the 737-800 on this route, and I did to. Flight time was 5 hours and 17 minutes
Flight Details
KLAX-PHTO • LAX-ITO
Los Angeles, California to Hilo, Hawaii
United 1004
Boeing 737-800
5:17
@JulianB
At the gate as a Thai A350 touches the pavement from Bangkok Lifting off as a United 787 rolls down the runway after its flight from Sydney Climbing out away from the famous California Coast Ascending over Santa Cruz Island on our way Southwest After 4 and a half hours over the open ocean, we descend toward Hilo on the Northwest RNAV for runway 26 Putting the gear down beneath the blue Hawaiian sky Approaching the runway as Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the world waits in the background 200 feet sounds in the cockpit of the 737-800 Touching down in the rainy city 5 and a half hours after leaving the gate in Los Angeles! At the stand in Hilo as Mauna Lea looms behind
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What are the record high, and record low temperatures in Hilo?
- 114 • 36
- 94 • 53
- 99 • 24
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