If you’re taking a trip to the mainland, Alaska or Guam and your flight includes a departure out of Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, be sure to allow for extra time as your pre-flight agricultural inspection will take longer starting today.
Baggage inspections are required for passengers flying to destinations in any of those locations to help U.S. agricultural officials restrict the movement of plants, insects and hazardous plant diseases.
Hawai‘i Department of Transportation reports because of staffing capacity of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection stations, starting today after 8 a.m. only one ag inspection station is open in Lobby 7 and one in Lobby 8 at the Honolulu airport…