Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a for-profit air carrier based in Honolulu, Hawaii, provides domestic and international scheduled passenger transportation, charter air services, and heavyweight cargo delivery to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations. The company operates across seven major IDIQs and related delivery orders valued at over $4.3 billion in combined potential value, positioning itself as a critical provider of air mobility and logistics services for U.S. military operations worldwide.

Hawaiian Airlines' federal footprint centers on air mobility and defense logistics. The vendor holds a $1.5 billion Global Heavyweight Services (GHS) IDIQ with U.S. Transportation Command (awarded December 21, 2022, through September 30, 2032) that authorizes task orders for domestic and international heavyweight cargo delivery exceeding weight thresholds, with 57 to 61 delivery orders executed since award for shipments to Japan, Poland, Slovenia, Nepal, Thailand, Romania, and other strategic locations. The company also holds a $27 million domestic charter air transportation services IDC with Air Mobility Command (awarded April 1, 2024, through September 30, 2028) generating 10 delivery orders for personnel and equipment movement across Hawaii and domestic bases. A $14.5 million Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) international charter airlift services IDC awarded to Hawaiian Airlines by Air Mobility Command on October 1, 2024, authorizes task orders through September 30, 2030; five delivery orders totaling approximately $2.92 million have been issued for performance in Japan, Australia, and Honolulu. Hawaiian Airlines also participates in the General Services Administration's City Pair Program (CPP) for scheduled passenger transportation, holding active awards valued at $30.97 million (FY2025 through September 30, 2025) and prior years' CPP contracts through government-wide routes. Delivery orders under these vehicles span monthly performance periods with firm fixed-price and fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment structures.

Customer concentration is dominated by Department of Defense components. Air Mobility Command drives both award volume and dollar magnitude, accounting for 140 awards (18.5% of total) valued at $2.68 billion—a single-customer dominance that reflects the vendor's strategic position in military airlift operations. The Department of the Air Force (excluding AMC) placed 406 awards worth $847.4 million, followed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense with 137 awards totaling $304.7 million. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service accounts for 15 awards valued at $435.4 million (City Pair Program), and the Army's Surface Deployment and Distribution Command placed 21 awards for $11.6 million under the Multimodal-3 IDIQ. Together, these five customers account for 95% of awards and 100% of combined potential value, establishing Air Mobility Command as the dominant buyer and underscore Hawaiian Airlines' specialization in defense rather than civilian government travel.

Activity has declined modestly in recent years. The vendor executed 45 awards in 2022, 28 in 2023, 34 in 2024, 19 in 2025, and 4 to date in 2026—a trajectory influenced by the shift from numerous small monthly delivery orders under the GHS IDIQ to larger multiyear IDC and IDIQ base awards. The recompete cliff is minimal: only 3 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.8 million, reflecting the long-tail nature of the vendor's portfolio and the recent award of major vehicles through 2028–2032.

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract activity appears in the source. Hawaiian Airlines operates within two dominant NAICS codes—Scheduled Freight Air Transportation (196 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (110 awards)—with PSC concentration in Transportation/Travel/Relocation codes for passenger air charter (497 awards) and air freight (197 awards). All recent awards carry no socioeconomic set-aside designation, confirming the vendor's posture as a full-scale commercial competitor rather than a small or disadvantaged-business beneficiary. The vendor has been registered in the System for Award Management since April 2002.

Hawaiian Airlines' federal work is geographically distributed. Delivery orders under the GHS IDIQ specify performance locations worldwide—Japan, Poland, Slovenia, Nepal, Thailand, Romania, Lebanon, Tunisia, Singapore, South Korea, Great Britain, and United States locations—supporting Department of Defense operations across the Indo-Pacific and European theaters. Domestic charter orders are performed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu International Airport, Kailua-Kona, and mainland bases including Riverside, California; Killeen, Texas; and Marine Corps Air Stations in North Carolina and Hawaii. The concentration of administrative oversight and operational hub presence in Honolulu, combined with the geographic diversity of task order execution, reflects the company's role as a backbone logistics provider for global military mobility.