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Aloha upgrades
Kona-to-Oakland
service

Airline also adds weekly
Kwajalein, Majuro flight

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Star-Bulletin staff

Aloha Airlines will step up its Hawaii-mainland service April 5, adding four flights a week from Kona to Oakland.

The airline also said it will introduce weekly service to the Marshall Islands April 9, flying from Honolulu to Kwajalein, a military base leased by the United States from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and on to the Marshalls' capital, Majuro.

That will be in addition to Aloha's existing weekly service to Majuro via Johnston Island.

The new Kona-Oakland service, supplementing the airline's daily Honolulu-Oakland and Maui-Oakland flights, will be round trips on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The airline will fly one way Kona-Oakland on Thursdays and one way Oakland-Kona on Mondays.

Aloha, which began serving the San Francisco Bay area with the Oakland flights a year ago, will extend those operations Wednesday, when it is set to start its previously announced Oakland-Las Vegas service. All the new mainland and Central Pacific flights will use long-range Boeing 737-700 aircraft, seating 12 in first class and 112 in coach, the airline said.

The Marshall Islands service will leave Honolulu each Monday afternoon.

Aloha has been running a flight each Thursday to Majuro, with a stop at Johnston, since 1999. It also flies to Midway Island and Christmas Island.