The issue of whether to change the name on such a major facility should have received a full public vetting.  Virtually nobody knew about it beforehand.  Typical fail by state bureaucrats.  INouye was, in all truth, a mixed blessing for Hawaii.  He kept much of the state in fear and punished his political enemies.  It was a real setback in the fragile democracy out here.  Moreover, the airport is a continuing scandal marred by massive corruption (going back to Waihee) and incompetence.  I am not sure Inouye would want to be associated with the place too openly.