No Elite Tagging
 

The only thing is that on your return, if you are Elite, the HA agent had no way other than putting a HA first class bag tag on (which I dont think that CO recognizes), to designate the conecting bags as Elite Access Priority Bags. I know half of the time it doesnt mean anything anyway...but if you can on your outbound, be nice to the TA and try to snag a few extra blue Elite Access bag tags for your return.

Very good idea, especially since at some airports, the blue tags are of a big help.

Could the OP stop by the CO counters in OGG, and if open, take a few of these tags there as well?

I've never tried to get extra bag tags....I suppose that this could work from OGG, but I (and I think the OP) was flying from non-CO airports (a la LIH or KOA).

Does anyone have an experience trying this? Are they sticklers when it comes to ponying up those tags??

Thank you for all of your help - one final question.

Is 'Island Air' associated with Aloha Airlines? I ask because I want to know if I go with them if I will be able to interline my bags all the way to LIH from EWR.


Thanks!

Edit: Nevermind - I just reread the post by CO Insider and realized that I can in fact do that.

Extra Elite Access Tags
 

I flew to HNL on CO and connected on to another island on HA.

On the mainland, I checked my bags through to my final destination. While I was doing so, I reminded the agent to tag my bags with Elite Access tags (which she did upon reminding.) I then asked her if I could have 2 tags for my return so that the HA agents could tag them. She said sure... and gave me a stack of tags (20+). I'll use them when I return to the mainland via HA and will let y'all know how the agents use them. I am flying HA in 1st, so they usually throw their own red first class tags on the bag tags... so I presume they'll use both tags when I return.

Grabbing extra elite tags makes sense, espescially when checking in with a partner. I also think it would make great sense to give them to GAs for those times when you need to gate check a bag.

Go to the Hawaiian Air website. They were offering some real cheap interisland airfares, but I dont know when the deal expired. Also, I wouldnt be in a hurry to jump right to Kauai. It's worth a day+ on Oahu to stop at Pearl Harbor, see Waikiki and drive up through the pineapple fields to the North Shore to see Haleiwa and the surfer-dude beaches, which should be rocking in Nov