AA: NYC-HNL $460 (0.023 eqm; try Orbitz, LGA)

[TravelNFunToo]

I just booked AA $460 RT to Honolulu through Chicago for this year. Origination airports are JFK, EWR, and LGA. Search by NYC as all New Your airports.

Deal comes and goes during the day and price changes during the day. Check availabilty at matrix.itasoftware.com.

It's a great deal to generate about 19,200 EQM on AA (with bonus promo). Current prices as I post are $494 today and $596 Friday. Keep checking availability to find fare you want. Best time is about 2AM-6AM from my experience.

I thought the deal was gone as prices went back up to $1200+, but I found one and immediately booked it at $460. If you snooze, you lose.

Merry Christmas!

[tylerdurden4543]

What promo? The AATHX double EQM promo ends 12/31/12, no?

[iridge]

Most of those are gone when trying to book, but still show up on Matrix.

the route is $460 in January-Feb and has been pretty popular here on FT for early 2013 MRs.

Welcome to FT!

[GraceC]

4.2 cpm not incl bonus miles. Can include stopovers like IAH to improve cpm

[yupenn]

try orbitz instead of aa.com

[AeroWesty]

What's interesting about this fare is that if you search using the ITA calendar, you get a different set of fares when you enter aa+ as a routing code rather than filtering the calendar by choosing AA as one of the Airline options.

At this moment, Dec 30th is a stark example. $2,152 when you filter by airline on the calendar for a trip of zero nights as the length of stay, $1,162 when you use aa+ as your routing code. I've never noticed such a wide discrepancy before.

[iridge]

Originally Posted by AeroWesty

What's interesting about this fare is that if you search using the ITA calendar, you get a different set of fares when you enter aa+ as a routing code rather than filtering the calendar by choosing AA as one of the Airline options.

At this moment, Dec 30th is a stark example. $2,152 when you filter by airline on the calendar for a trip of zero nights as the length of stay, $1,162 when you use aa+ as your routing code. I've never noticed such a wide discrepancy before.

I've been noticing more and more of these occurences recently. And very often I see one price on ITA but when trying to book on aa.com the fares that come up are very far off

[AeroWesty]

BOOKABLE right now on aa.com @ 6am PST, EWR or LGA same day turn to HNL Dec 30th outbound and return via ORD both ways. $460.00

[Peter_Ng]

Originally Posted by AeroWesty

BOOKABLE right now on aa.com @ 6am PST, EWR or LGA same day turn to HNL Dec 30th outbound and return via ORD both ways. $460.00

Late to the game again. All I saw at aa.com is $1162 now

[AeroWesty]

Dang, that went fast.

ETA: Keep checking. I just found ~$520 on 3 days on DL using DL+ as a routing code on ITA, and all 3 came up on expedia.com. Dec 28, 29, and 30th.

[Peter_Ng]

Actually still bookable at Orbitz as of 6:50 pst for $460 on dec 30. I need to book by aa.com so I can use the discount and voucher

[GrizShel]

see this fare on ita matrix also for delta jan. 18 - 20.

[AeroWesty]

Datapoint: Bookable @ 7:28am PST for the $460 fare using LGA-HNL Dec 30 both ways. At the same time, this fare does not show available using NYC-HNL to capture all of the NY area airports. I switched back and forth a couple of times to confirm this quirk of aa.com.

[Peter_Ng]

Originally Posted by AeroWesty

Datapoint: Bookable @ 7:28am PST for the $460 fare using LGA-HNL Dec 30 both ways. At the same time, this fare does not show available using NYC-HNL to capture all of the NY area airports. I switched back and forth a couple of times to confirm this quirk of aa.com.

Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[787fan]

Love this NYC-HNL fare war among the majors ... i've managed to snatch UA early Feb weekend NYC-SFO-HNL for $480 with confirmed upgrade space