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Fly Flat Bed Leihoku Suites to Hawaii for 40,000 Miles from Seattle for select dates from September 2025-June 2026. The best availability for SEA-HNL is January and May-June 2026, while for HNL-SEA it's January-February and May-June 2026. Book with either Alaska Mileage Plan or Hawaiian miles for the 40,000 miles each way rate; it's also possible to reserve for 55,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles.
Hawaiian Airlines' 787-9 Business Class Leihoku Suites with closing suite doors launched in April 2024, and remains the nicest way to fly to Hawaii. It's a significant improvement from the current subpar Hawaiian Airlines A330 First Class with its 2-2-2 seating configuration.
The 787-9 Dreamliner will have 34 business class seats out of 300 suites total, nearly doubling the share of business class to over 11%, compared to the 18 premium seats on the A330-200, only 6.5% of the seats.
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The new suites are a customized version of the Ascent seats manufactured by Adient Aerospace, the same ones chosen by Qatar for its 787-9 Business Class Suite and by American Airlines on future 787-9 orders. The seats are in a 1-2-1 herringbone configuration, each with direct aisle access. Window seats are angled toward the window, while paired honeymoon seats angle away from each other toward the aisle, the opposite of JAL 787-9 Sky Suite III Business Class, which angles paired seats toward each other and away from the aisle. While the advantage is that one's head is further away from the aisle, it's potentially more awkward, even with the privacy divider, to have one's head so close to a stranger's if you're flying solo and don't manage to snag a window seat. On the other hand, for couples traveling together, it's also not as easy to have eye contact, given that the seats angle away from each other.
A privacy divider between the paired seats can be lowered for couples and travel partners, or raised for those not traveling together. Other amenities include an 18 inch in-flight entertainment screen, power outlets below a small storage unit.
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The 787-9 Dreamliner offers enhanced cabin air filtration (helpful at filtering out not only allergens and viruses, but also volatile organic compounds that can dry out and adversely affect passengers), and its carbon-fiber composite airframe permits travel at a lower cabin altitude, and this lower altitude typically makes for a more comfortable flight, without the mild altitude sickness and headaches common at higher altitudes. The cabin also has greater humidity, 6-7% vs. the typical 2% of earlier generation largely aluminum aircraft. Guests will also notice a quiet cabin thanks to acoustic-treated engine inlets, as well as extra-large, dimmable windows, spacious overhead bins and lavatory toilets and faucets with touchless activation.
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Where to Stay in Hawaii
Our top luxury resort recommendations remain Four Seasons Lanai and Four Seasons Hualalai, which we reserve for clients with our Four Seasons Preferred Partner benefits. Here's our Four Seasons Lanai video review:
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While the Rosewood Kona Village has a great hard product, it's struggled with proper staffing and consistency when it comes to service and housekeeping. In Kauai, 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay is similar: stunning hard product and views, but understaffed and inconsistent service.
The Mauna Kea Beach has long been popular for its white sand beach and tennis program, but it's being renovated until the end of 2025, so we recommend it post-renovation for 2026 stays. On Maui, Wailea is a better location than Kapalua, and the Four Seasons Maui at Wailea has a better beach than the nearby Andaz Maui at Wailea.
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