The Wiki Wiki Shuttle () is a free

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service at

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Daniel K. Inouye International Airport , also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main airport of Oahu, Hawaii.Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...

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. Shuttles run between 6:00 am and 10:00 pm

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, carrying people and baggage between the various terminals. In the

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, the word means quick. In 1994, the shuttle's name inspired American computer programmer Ward Cunningham to build the first ever user-editable website "

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". Although WikiWikiWeb is itself no longer user-editable, the term

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for a user-editable website thus derives from the shuttle's name.

Reduction of operations

, the airport was moving away from dependence on the Wiki Wiki buses, which were put in place in 1970 as "an interim measure". Travelers had been complaining about the hot, slow, outdated buses. As was reported to the press, not only are the buses somewhat inconvenient and uncomfortable, they also put a huge strain on the building structure due to their weight and level of activity. In November 2007, local media reported that the shuttle would be replaced by an air-conditioned

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. The first phase of this change was completed in October 2009, giving international travelers the option of an air-conditioned hallway with a moving sidewalk instead of the open-air buses. The buses were formerly run by the Aircraft Services International Group. In April 2009, the airport signed a new contract for the shuttle buses to be managed by

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, and the signage on the shuttles was changed from "WikiWiki shuttle" to "HNL shuttle". In 2013, the buses were still or again in active service in Honolulu Airport, but their usage was to be reduced for international arrivals as a result of the walkway that had been in use since the end of 2010. Despite this, new buses were added, and they were once more labelled "Wiki Wiki".

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{{authority control Bus transportation in Hawaii Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

Reduction of operations

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