Will AS add any more flight from SAN to hawaii
May 24, 2011, 9:45 am
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Will AS add any more flight from SAN to hawaii
Right now Alaska only has a non stop from SAN to OGG. Has anyone heard whether they may add a non stop to HNL or LIH anytime in the near future? I love Maui but I would like to go to the other islands as well with my AS miles.
May 24, 2011, 10:52 am
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Right now I think they are a bit tied up with a/c, so probably won't be until 2012 until much expansion is possible...
Right now I think they are a bit tied up with a/c, so probably won't be until 2012 until much expansion is possible...
May 24, 2011, 12:36 pm
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Why not use your miles to OGG and buy an el-cheapo interisland hop over to HNL?
Why not use your miles to OGG and buy an el-cheapo interisland hop over to HNL?
May 24, 2011, 2:27 pm
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No longer as elcheapo...
And one does not earn miless on *any* interisland
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Why not use your miles to OGG and buy an el-cheapo interisland hop over to HNL?
Why not use your miles to OGG and buy an el-cheapo interisland hop over to HNL?
And one does not earn miless on *any* interisland
May 24, 2011, 5:06 pm
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This wouldn't be too ridiculous financially either; when I lived near Hilo in 2005 o/w interisland fares were sometimes over 200 and ATA had seats to SFO for around 149
May 24, 2011, 10:34 pm
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You would if your interisland included a connection in SEA.
This wouldn't be too ridiculous financially either; when I lived near Hilo in 2005 o/w interisland fares were sometimes over 200 and ATA had seats to SFO for around 149
Well... If AS sold flights for 149 rt thru SEA, I'd be happy as well 
Not sure they would be. They really need some partner or QX there though
Originally Posted by evoG
This wouldn't be too ridiculous financially either; when I lived near Hilo in 2005 o/w interisland fares were sometimes over 200 and ATA had seats to SFO for around 149
Not sure they would be. They really need some partner or QX there though
May 26, 2011, 1:45 pm
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As a data point, my May flights to and from OGG from SAN were COMPLETELY FULL. May is off season for OGG - and AS seems to be hitting a home run in this market. ^ I hope they do add more seats to HI from SAN!!
May 29, 2011, 10:20 am
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good to hear that route seems to run full because Ive heard chatter some AS employees as well as a couple passengers that some of the new cities serving Hawaii arent doing so swell. BLI-HNL I guess had 50 empty seats Friday(but one day doesnt mean a whole lot my HNL_BLI saturday was packed full). And from what I can gather the flights out of OAK arent going out close to full either a lot of the time.
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Jun 2, 2011, 6:20 pm
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good to hear that route seems to run full because Ive heard chatter some AS employees as well as a couple passengers that some of the new cities serving Hawaii arent doing so swell. BLI-HNL I guess had 50 empty seats Friday(but one day doesnt mean a whole lot my HNL_BLI saturday was packed full). And from what I can gather the flights out of OAK arent going out close to full either a lot of the time.
Jun 4, 2011, 4:34 pm
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In general, it is not useful to judge overall load factors by the fact that my "xxxday am flight is always full". A passenger is always more likely to be on a full flight because of basic probability.. Suppose the Saturday am flight from SAN-OGG was always full on Saturday and all the other days were virtually empty. Most passengers in this market would conclude that the "AS is making a lot of money on SAN-OGG" because most passengers flew on the Saturday flight. However, The actual route load factor is just over 15%, probably not a money-making proposition.
Jun 4, 2011, 4:49 pm
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good to hear that route seems to run full because Ive heard chatter some AS employees as well as a couple passengers that some of the new cities serving Hawaii arent doing so swell. BLI-HNL I guess had 50 empty seats Friday(but one day doesnt mean a whole lot my HNL_BLI saturday was packed full). And from what I can gather the flights out of OAK arent going out close to full either a lot of the time.
Jun 4, 2011, 5:50 pm
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Wow! I can't believe it. They are so successful routes and more profitability. I would agree with you if AS will eventually to starts more nonstop SAN-HNL/KOA/LIH/ITO in a distant the future. Maybe AS could get second daily nonstop SAN-OGG, if necessary.
Jun 4, 2011, 9:35 pm
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Still think another socal airport would work well.
Still think another socal airport would work well.