WineCountryUA

Yes, this is an AI (all in) price

Call and ask for the upfare pricing, changing the ticket to First -- that will earn more miles and maybe the same price. Note these price upgrade offerings can change at any time, without notice.
Buy up to higher fare class w/o change fee? {GG BUYUP}

Kacee

Yes, relative to SFO-HNL, which runs $1600+ if there's no P, that's not bad at all.

TommyC80

Anyone with recent experience up front on this flight? Is it still just a breakfast flight, or is there a midflight / arrival meal?

I was ready to gnaw off the armrest the last time I took this route in 2017.

HNLbasedFlyer

Breakfast and arrival meal a couple of months ago -

iahphx

Anyone take this flight recently in coach? My wife and I are 1K's flying in Economy Plus on cheapo award tickets from Turkish Smiles. Not expecting to enjoy the flight, but figure it will be bearable on the 767 in coach. I see that UA is serving a free breakfast on the outbound. I'm not expecting much for a domestic coach breakfast,. Do they do an additional snack, or is it wise to bring along some food? As 1Ks, we're also theoretically entitled to a free sandwich or such, but the website says they don't load any on this flight because there's a free meal. Do they sell the $10 prepackaged snackboxes (which we'd also be entitled to)? That would be nice for the 11+ hour flight!

iahphx

Surprised I received no responses. So here's the deal. The coach food on the flight is dreadful. Bring your own -- enough for 11 hours. Breakfast is a mini warmed croissant with a mini yogurt and a couple of snack packets. The second "meal" was a bag of pretzels. There is no food to buy except a couple of snacks like $5 chips and the bad $10 shelf-stable snack boxes that we at least got for free as 1Ks. Honesty, UA should be embarrassed by this. If they don't want to provide reasonable food for free, they should provide none, tell you this, and sell sandwiches and such.

FWIW, I didn't see any advantage of the bulkhead in Economy+ over the other Economy+ seats on the 767. Emergency exit row has the door that sticks out in front of the window seat that will annoy most. Couples will prefer the 2-seats along the window, but if the flight isn't too crowded, most couples will probably prefer the aisles in the middle 3 seats. Look at the seat map before departure to see how many empty seats there are.

HNLbasedFlyer

I'm not - the flight has been going mostly empty in Coach for months.

I'd have been shocked if you said the opposite.

UAFAM

I wonder why UA doesnt cut the price of Economy cabin to attract more pax, EWR-SFO is around $220 RT, I would like to see EWR-HNL at $440

pigx5

We just took EWR-HNL booked with TK miles too.
I chose bulk seat due to I don't like people recline in front of me.
Our flight actually left a lot of empty seats in E+ and I actually slept in the middle 3 seats for a while.
In the back, they do have some snacks to grab but I would not count on it.
Our flight had cater error so they forgot to load main course.
All I can say is that the instant noodles that I brought saved us.
I would suggest that you bring your own food too. Even they cater correctly, you might still feel hungry for the 11 hours flight.
Here is my trip video for this flight

iahphx

Yeah, not sure why they don't at least serve everyone ramen for the snack course. I recall UA used to do that in coach on some transpac flights. It would cost next to nothing and keep pax from starving.
Didn't realize there were any snacks in the back (no reason an Economy+ pax would ever go that far back in the plane).
The flight certainly seemed uncrowded. I was thinking "why are they operating this -- it must be losing them a fortune, especially on a fuel guzzling 767, and they could just connect the passengers at the other hubs." Candidly, given the long flight time and the high cost of a Hawaiian vacation, I'm skeptical that this flight will ever "work." Even I said to my wife, "you know, maybe next time we want a warm destination in winter, we should just go to the Caribbean."

Unitedloyalflyer

Wonder if the hi J version of the 763 would work better for this route. Doesn't the premium cabin fill for this flight?

Cometstar

did they have enough hot water for instant noodles? Flying ewr-Ogg but expect similar lack of enough food.

saccoNY

flying EWR-HNL in a couple of weeks in F. Would love to hear recent experiences on food and any other in flight thing that maybe good to know. Thanks.

featheroleather

1st service=bkfst choice of french toast(2 med slices instead of 2 wonder bread nothingness) or something eggy(quiche or egg white bites), both choices come with fruit & yougurt. halfway to hawaii its either the terriyuki burger or asian noodle salad with those little warmed up pies, then snacks & drinks till hnl.

Y gets yougurt, fruit & granola bar for service 1 then snack food for purchase(tapas/recline/takeoff box) for $10. pretty shlumpy offerings on a 10 hr flt but with no competition, shlumpy is good enough i guess.

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