HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines issued the following statement: “We are monitoring a tsunami warning for the Hawaiian Islands and portions of the state of Alaska and assessing our flight operations. We are holding flight departures to the Islands on Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines.

As a precaution, some flights already en route to Hawai‘i are being redirected back to the mainland or diverted to alternate locations.

In light of the tsunami alert following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia on Tuesday, Alaska Airlines is pausing flights to the Hawaiian islands.