Thread: Maui

Sorry, HOW are the flights!

Most airlines have cut so many flight to hawaii that it is almost impossible to fly nonrev. I was in Hawaii in October the least traveled month in hawaii, I called to list on United Airlines for Thursday flight back to mainland, United has two flight out of HNL and Maui, The stand by list for all flight were all over 100 people, Called and could not even purchase a ticket for two weeks, AT the AA couter thay were over sold for paying customer, They were asking 30 people to give up there seats,
But don't worry you can purchas a ticket on Aloha out of Oak or Phx for about 199 round trip, Just look in Travelzoo.com, A little high right now but will go back down after spring break, ID 90 on United is 111 dollars anyway, Ouch, Good Hotel in Ohua Royal Ohana Islander one block from beach about 60 dollar a night, good clean room and close to beach, Well I hope this helps, I have nonrev to Hawaii about 12 times, but not again!!
Dennis

Im going to non rev in april on American Airlines from miami to chicago or los angeles to maui....what do you think?

you might want to check ATA, American Trans Air, Their charter prices are very reasonable for Honolulu. Once there you can purchase an inter island fare from a travel agent cheaper than you can thru regular channels. They have coupons for locals.

There are no direct flights to miami from Honolulu.

I know several people here in my office who nonrev to HNL and OGG regularly. Most go directly from PHX nonstop, and a few go through LAX, mostly to avoid a red eye return. They have used HA and TZ, no complaints on either, and all got on the flights they wanted, the first time. For example, 3 gals went for a weekend away on TZ in October, had no issues.

Now with TZ increasing their frequency to Hawaii (read WN codeshare), there may be a chance of more nonrev spots. This is happening here in PHX, also LAS and PDX I think, possibly more.

Don't know if you've considered nonrev'ing across the continental US, then taking a hop over, but seems that may work.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BRITSKI99:
AA283 appears to fly MIA-HNL direct stopping over in LAX en route. You could also look at the direct AA flight from DFW-OGG if you can get to DFW for a noon flight. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>