Roadbob

Thanks. We would be doing it on return trip so that would mean an AG inspection and longer TSA lines correct?
How bad a walk from inter island to terminal for a delta departure to mainland with bags?

Many thanks!

Mary2e

You need to go thru Ag before you check your bags for a mainland flight, so that would be in HNL after you retrieve them from the inter island flight.

It's not a long walk, particularly if you have wheels on your bags I would say about 10 minutes, perhaps a little longer, since you have to follow the signs.

Roadbob

Thanks so much! So if we allow 2.5 hours to claim bags, go to main terminal for mainland flight, go through AG and back through TSA - think that works? Thank you!

Mary2e

It works very well. You will probably end up sitting and waiting for your flight.

DataPlumber

To add a data point, My bags were thru checked at origin in spite of the different tickets. No sure of this was because I knew the agent or they were both F tix, but I believe she linked the HA reservation my AA one (I could see the HA flights in the AA App) after she check in.

snuffi

I have a 1hr45 connection at HNL whilst doing LIH-HNL-LAX and onwards. LIH-HNL is HA, HNL-LAX is AA. I would ideally like to check a bag with HA. I understand that it is basically a lottery as to whether HA will through check my bag to my final destination LHR (UK). If they do not, do I have enough time (weekday, 7.45pm with AA departing at 9.30pm) to collect my suitcase, get over to the main terminal and recheck it?
Thanks

tylerdurden4543

Hi everyone:

First time flying Hawaiian (and to Hawaii, actually) so have a few questions I was hoping the group could help with.

The particulars:
Flying Haneda to Honolulu on Hawaiian in Business and then connecting Honolulu to Maui on Hawaiian in Economy. Due to using frequent flyer miles, the two segments are on different PNRs despite both segments being on Hawaiian airlines.

Questions:
-Flight from Haneda is scheduled to land at 10:20am and flight departing for Maui is scheduled to leave at 11:40am. I realize it is tight, but is it so tight I should pay to change to a later HNL-OGG flight? If I don't change it, and we miss it, what are our options? According to FlightAware, this flight historically lands no later than 10:00am and often closer to 9:30am.
-Is there any way to not have to claim bags at HNL, leave security, re-check bags for OGG flight and then re-clear security?
-If I have to re-check the bags for HNL-OGG, will I be charged for them or is there a way for the free luggage allowance of my Business class fare HND-HNL carry over?

Thanks!
Tyler

LIH Prem

Hawaiian's minimum connect times in HNL for international to domestic are something like 3 hours. One hour is way too short in my opinion.

Do you have global entry or some other way of getting through immigration quickly? No matter what you will have to collect your checked bags on arrival in HNL and if they are checked through you can deposit them at the recheck desk before leaving customs. If not, you will have to haul them over to the inter-island terminal and check them in there, paying whatever applicable bag fee there is. Then you will have to clear security at the inter-island terminal. (Hopefully you will be able to use web checkin in their app to get your mobile boarding passes before you leave HND.)

I have no idea what they will do when you check in at your international location with Hawaiian, but when I'm flying into HNL on other airlines (JAL, TG/UA, etc) with a connecting flight on Hawaiian to Maui, I've never had a problem showing the check in agent a copy of my e-ticket receipt and they will happily check the bag through to OGG for me. Though note as I mentioned above, I still have to collect my bag at HNL and drop it at the HA bag recheck after clearing customs.

Even with global entry I tend to try to leave 1.5 - 2 hours or more for this connection. And we often clear customs/immigration in 10 - 15 minutes. But an hour is just way too short because we still have to walk over to the inter-island terminal and clear security there then walk over to the departure gate. We end up waiting around a long time especially since Tokyo to HNL is a relatively short flight and with favorable tailwinds you can arrive early. But 3 hours is too long if you have expedited access like global entry unless the incoming flight is really late, IMO. (I tried telling Hawaiian that a long time ago, but they didn't care about it, so I stopped flying them to Asia after that forced 3 hour layover, back when they were flying to MNL.)

Hope that helps. If it were me, I would change the inter-island flight. Leave 2 hours or so to be safe.

Oh, and sometimes the bags don't make the connection. you have to wait for the next flight or so in Maui.

If they refuse to check your bags through to OGG at HND (which is their right), then you will have to pay inter-island bag check fees to check them back in HNL. But you can do all that through the app after you check in in HND, so all you have to do is print the bag tag and go to a bag drop line in HNL. Hopefully you will get a nice agent at HND who will check it through for you since you are in business class.

-David

kamchatsky

I have an existing HA HNL-SYD flight booked on Y (depart 12:55pm). I am looking at booking separate HA OGG-HNL ticket. Would a 1:50 hour gap at HNL sufficient? I assume there are no immigration exit at HNL? Say HA185 where it arrives at HNL at 11:04am?

Also would I need to pay for bags for OGG-HNL leg, even if my HNL-SYD ticket already has bags included? Would the bags be checked through?

tylerdurden4543

Thanks David for the very thorough advice! Have decided to not chance it and just fly in two days early - adding two days of vacation in Honolulu before going to Maui seems like a perfectly reasonable solution!