AS Cuts All OAK - Hawaii Flights
Jun 22, 2020, 9:56 pm
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AS Cuts All OAK - Hawaii Flights
I believe effective on or about 8/1 AS has cancelled several daily direct flights into KOA from OAK. Specifically they no longer run on Saturday which was always very busy so hard for me to understand why that day was dropped. When I called and asked if it was a temporary change I was basically told no one knows. Even the agent I spoke to thought it was odd the Saturday flight was dropped. For years that was my go to flight to KOA as I work on Hawaii and regularly do the trip on Saturday. Sunday does run as I believe Monday as well so it looks for time being I'll be using the Sunday flight.
Jun 22, 2020, 11:44 pm
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Unless something has changed in the last 24 hrs that is not correct. The Saturday and I believe Tuesday and Thursdays direct flights are cancelled, well at least as far as to 2021. I tried to book both November and December flights and they were not available. Agents said no plans to add them back "at this time". I realize things will change and can only hope you are correct.
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Jun 23, 2020, 10:16 am
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Very strange that they run Sat, Tu, Th in August then it appears they flip it and run Sun, Mon, Wed, Friday later in the year. I don't know exactly what dates the changes occur but all I know is when I need the direct flight it isn't running and apparently when I can't use it (ie. Aug) it is running on Sat. Go figure..... But as you state, this may all be moot if the quarantine is extended.
Jun 23, 2020, 1:40 pm
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Very strange that they run Sat, Tu, Th in August then it appears they flip it and run Sun, Mon, Wed, Friday later in the year. I don't know exactly what dates the changes occur but all I know is when I need the direct flight it isn't running and apparently when I can't use it (ie. Aug) it is running on Sat. Go figure..... But as you state, this may all be moot if the quarantine is extended.
Jun 23, 2020, 4:21 pm
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Thanks! I figured someone would come up with the exact date of the schedule switch. I think I will look into that Sat WN direct flight although the hours are not so great for me. As I work there certain days of flying work better than others hence the reason for my somewhat inflexible schedule. Thanks again for the info.
Jul 16, 2020, 1:00 pm
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Well as predicted it now looks like AS dropped direct flights into KOA completely (well at least through August). Having to now depart out of SJC into KOA which is far from ideal for me. Even when Hawaii opens up I suspect OAK into KOA will never attain the previous level of direct flights into KOA.
Jul 17, 2020, 2:31 pm
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From what I see it looks like SJC to KOA and back is running about every other day in August. Hopefully this won't be cancelled as I have booked a couple RT's now. As above not sure what the future status of OAK to KOA will be. Southwest out of OAK to KOA is also not running at all after the first week of August. For now they said they would look into restarting in September.
Jul 17, 2020, 4:53 pm
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It's odd to see them cut SFO-KOA but, so far at least, OAK-KOA is still on the schedule in October and beyond (along with OAK-LIH). Why are the rules so different for these routes than any others? These are the only routes served at OAK but not SFO, while basically everything else only goes through SFO (or SJC).
Jul 17, 2020, 8:54 pm
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It's odd to see them cut SFO-KOA but, so far at least, OAK-KOA is still on the schedule in October and beyond (along with OAK-LIH). Why are the rules so different for these routes than any others? These are the only routes served at OAK but not SFO, while basically everything else only goes through SFO (or SJC).
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Jul 20, 2020, 3:12 pm
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JMHO, when (not if) travel opens up into all of Hawaii I anticipate OAK to the Islands will ramp up again. I still have a OAK-KOA flight booked for late November so that is still running AS OF NOW. UA out of SFO at one point was running THREE direct flights into KOA alone on certain days. I was blown away by this as I had no idea there was that much travel into KOA even in high season but I guess they were filling them. Having said that it did last long as after only running them a few months the SIP order came down and it was game over.