{"id":295552,"date":"2026-05-01T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295552\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:10:08","slug":"southwest-airlines-to-add-a-new-sacramento-to-hawaii-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295552\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines to add a new Sacramento to Hawaii flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento travelers jet-setting to a Hawaiian vacation later this year will soon have a new option for take off.<\/p>\n<p>The<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/flysmf.gov\/\"> Sacramento International Airport<\/a> announced Thursday that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\/\">Southwest Airlines<\/a> is adding a new flight to its route from Sacramento to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirlines increasing capacity to offer more options is always a win for travelers,\u201d SMF spokesperson Lindsay Myers wrote in a statement. \u201cWe are glad Southwest is choosing to expand to two daily flights between SMF and HNL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Southwest operates a flight from Sacramento to Honolulu departing at 8:25 a.m. daily, arriving in Hawaii at noon, with a daily return flight leaving Honolulu at 1:20 p.m. and arriving in Sacramento at 8:40 p.m., according to Myers.<\/p>\n<p>As of November, Southwest will add a second daily nonstop flight to its lineup, leaving Sacramento at 5:30 p.m. and arriving in Honolulu at 9:05 p.m. Hawaii time. The return flight from Honolulu will leave at 10:40 p.m. Hawaii time and arrive back home at 5:55 a.m. Pacific time.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/288668760\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SAC_CamilaPedrosa_HA_01_05312024.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Camila Pedrosa\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/288668760\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camila Pedrosa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Camila Pedrosa is a service journalism reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked as a summer reporting intern for The Bee and reported in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master\u2019s degree in mass communication.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento travelers jet-setting to a Hawaiian vacation later this year will soon have a new option for take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-295552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}