HRS §261E-9
Temporary permission for urgent air service
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section lets the air carrier commission give a Hawaii air carrier temporary permission to provide service to a place that has no air service and needs it right away. The commission can do this without a hearing. The permission lasts as long as the commission says, but no more than 120 days.
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The statute, as written — Temporary authority
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
To enable the provision of service for which there is an immediate and urgent need to a point or points having no Hawaii air carrier service capable of and willing to meet the need, the air carrier commission, in its discretion and without hearings or other proceedings, may grant temporary authority for the service by a Hawaii air carrier. The temporary authority, unless suspended or revoked for good cause, shall be valid for the time the commission shall specify, but for not more than a period of one hundred twenty days for any one immediate and urgent need. [L Sp 2008, c 1, pt of §2]
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