Originally Posted by
MatthewLAX
So even now you are still getting upgrades? I thought cabins were filling up early with paid J traffic.
Since Oct 2020 (when Hawaii dropped mandatory quarantine) of the roughly 50 segments over water - I've gotten upgraded all of them except twice - and the 2 segments I bought up were for $350 which brought the total price far less than buying F and far far far less than buying F outright on Hawaiian. My next flight HNL-LAX on Jul 18 at 8:55pm still has 8 open seats - so looking good but monitoring each day. For the LAX-LAS or SFO-LAS upgrades are probably 2/3 - but don't really care about those.
My flights HNL-ORD I don't bother with the upgrade game - use Chase Ultimate Rewards points.