Traveler’s Notes . . .

Hawaii-based Aloha Airlines, which for 53 years has operated flights between the islands, is expanding to the mainland. Starting Monday it will begin daily nonstop Honolulu-Oakland flights; Maui-Oakland flights begin Feb. 28. Advance-purchase round-trip fares begin at $399. Tel. (877) 879- 2564. . . . Pack your bags: La Repubblica of Rome reported last week that tourism in Venice and Florence fell between 15% and 30% last month because of the “boomerang effect” of the Vatican’s Jubilee celebrations. There was so much talk of the country being flooded with visitors that potential tourists stayed home, the paper said. . . . Super Bowl weekend was a winning proposition for Atlanta hoteliers despite the bad weather, Smith Travel Research reports. They raked in $19.6 million--more than $12 million more than the same dates in 1999--from average room rates of nearly $146 versus just over $120 in the previous year.