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About LinkBacksIf you reckon HNL is not a black hole for non-revs, you're delusional young Randy!
If you reckon HNL is not a black hole for non-revs, you're delusional young Randy!
<span style="font-family:Lucida Sans Unicode">AL - NonRev Correspondent Australia/Oceania/Asia </span>
I suppose your "black-hole" supposition may be correct depending on which direction/destination you may be attempting.
I have been bumped trying to get to Hawai'i but never trying to get from Hawai'i to the mainland U.S.
The only time we were bumped was trying to get to Hawai'i for the wedding of a 'local' friend. Unfortulately we couldn't tell her not to get married in June.You can't pick a worse month to get to Hawai'i.
For those who don't know, most of my 'in-laws' are in Hawai'i. On average, we make about 2 trips a year to the islands from Chicago (sometimes more, sometimes less.)
Randy - Nonrev Correspondent Chicago
hi al
i am also interested in your top 5 nonrev black holes-please tell us!
but i wouldn't say that bkk-europe is that bad as hermi said. if you avoid peakseason and have some back-up tickets it's no problem to get back to europe.
Al,
You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you SO much for the info! Is that HNL flight you checked the availability on the flight by Air Canada as you specified? Since I am going with my parents, they can't non-rev on Qantas, but they can on Air Canada. That may be our best option to go instead of the previous option of flying on Korean through Seoul. Still unsure. But thank you for all the info. It really helps. I can't wait and am looking forward to the trip as it is coming up quickly...next week! :-)
Yeah - that was AC33 on the 17th ex HNL. As I said, it's a one day reprieve - 18th/19th are back to normal and shocking again.
For the others - I've started a "Black Hole" thread in the General Discussion forum.
Cheers!
<span style="font-family:Lucida Sans Unicode">AL - NonRev Correspondent Australia/Oceania/Asia </span>
BTW...incase anyone is interested, I just booked a roundtrip flight from HNL to SYD 9 days before my departure date on Hawaiian Air for $728US. I couldn't believe it after comparing all the specials and offers from all other airlines out there and thought it was a computer error, but it wasn't. I was planning on nonrevving the whole way (getting VERY creative), but this was an excellent alternative that cost about as much as the ID90s and ID95s I would have had to purchase to get there and it is confirmed seating. It was an offer I couldn't refuse and hard to believe. Anyone interested in going, I would highly recommend researching all possible alternatives and fares and continue looking even up until the last day before travel. You just never know what can happen...especially when non-revving. Now, if this isn't that big a deal to others out there, I apologize as I am VERY excited and I no longer have to worry about getting there and back which was causing me HUGE heartache and frustration.
I'm with you Luvs2travel, sometimes it's just not worth the "non-rev worry".
Of course there was that time in SJC, ticket in hand, they were calling for volunteers to give up their seats, I got a gtd seat on a later flight, a meal voucher
and believe it or not a $$$ voucher...talk about discovering the beauty of bumping.
Have fun.
Keep'em flying
Keep'em Flying
Migflanker - Senior NonRev Correspondent - Los Angeles
I've also seen HA's webonly specials such as LAX-HNL one way for USD99.00 as example. Definitely a good option.
<span style="font-family:Lucida Sans Unicode">AL - NonRev Correspondent Australia/Oceania/Asia </span>
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