Hawaiian Airlines (HA, Honolulu) will terminate its Honolulu-Beijing Capital route, the carrier's only Chinese service, on October 11. The carrier said it eventually intends to return to China but gave no further details at this point.

The route is currently operated 3x weekly with A330-200 equipment. Hawaiian said it would redeploy the Airbus widebody "elsewhere on the network". The carrier said the demand on the route was growing slower than expected.

Meanwhile, American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) said it would suspend its Chicago O'Hare-Shanghai Pudong service on October 27. The route is currently operated 7x weekly with a B787-8 equipment.

"Our Chicago–Shanghai service is unprofitable and simply not sustainable in this high fuel cost environment and when we have opportunities to be successful in other markets," Vice-President (Network and Schedule Planning) Vasu Raja said.

The airline said it would seek a dormancy waiver from the US Department of Transportation (DOT) regarding the traffic rights to Shanghai, as it eventually plans to resume the route. However, it will most likely lose the slots at the Chinese gateway anyways.

American Airlines plans to continue serving Shanghai out of Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles International, 7x weekly each.