Michigan Vacation

The Mission Houses Museum’s new blog ThaddeusJournal.org provides insight into the journey of Protestant missionaries who traveled on the Brig Thaddeus to the Sandwich Islands now known as Hawaii in October 1819. The museum posts daily excerpts from a journal kept by the travelers during the six-month trek. The blog entries are a prelude to [...]

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2009 – Qantas today marks 50 years since it operated the world’s first commercial passenger jet service across the Pacific. Flight EM774, the first to be operated by Qantas’ new Boeing 707 aircraft, departed Sydney Airport at 3.35pm on July 29, 1959, bound for San Francisco, via Nadi and Honolulu.
Qantas Senior Executive [...]

Alaska Airlines announced today it will inaugurate four-times, weekly service between Oakland, California and Kahului, Hawaii, on the island of Maui, beginning November 9, 2009, and thrice-weekly service between Oakland and Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii, starting November 10, 2009.
Additionally, the airline will expand its Seattle-Honolulu schedule from one daily flight to two, [...]