Originally Posted by
jm1991
I could see tickets being at like 139 on the off season or when they have a sale but for summer when traveling to Hawaii is in more demand they will most likely be still 200+. Also we dont know yet when they will open up for bookings and when the first flights will be available. It would be wise to just book an alternative if you are set to go. I imagine there's a lot of people watching carefully for this so flights may be sold out within hours for more desirable dates, specially with southwest's cancellation and refund policy.
I'll hopefully be one of those people buying within hours of when booking opens. I'm not going to "just" book an alternative when I'm sitting on two companion passes that allow us to have two people fly for free.
Since they'll be flying out of Oakland as well, which is driving distance from us, the "back up" plan would be to look for Oakland tickets, with the second back up option being to rearrange our dates.
Worst case would be to wait for low season and pull my kids out of school, which I'd prefer not to do,