Neither government shutdown nor IT outage can stop the merger of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.

On Oct. 15, Seattle-based Alaska achieved one of the first major tech milestones of the combination. All new bookings made after that day for travel on either airline took place on Alaska’s reservations system, or “passenger service system” (PSS) in airline parlance. And all existing bookings at Hawaiian after April 22, 2026 were moved over to the platform.

This is what Charu Jain, senior vice president of merchandising and innovation at Alaska who is overseeing the guest-facing technology integration of Hawaiian, calls the “selling cutover.”

The idea is that the reservations in Hawaiian’s PSS will “drain” out of the system until none are left by the night of April 21, 2026. Alaska wi

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