Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines begin weekly air shipments of Maui limes

Alaska and Hawaiian Air Cargo have started the first-ever air shipments of Maui limes, moving more than 80,000 pounds each week in the bellies of Hawaiian Airlines widebody jets from Kahului to Seattle before the fruit is trucked to Canada.

Since February, about 2 million pounds of limes grown by Mahi Pono have been carried on the Kahului‑Seattle route, allowing the fruit to reach markets in three days instead of up to two weeks by sea, and in 2025 the two airlines together transported over 157,000 tons of cargo to, from and within Hawai‘i and Alaska.