jeffro1975

yay! I finally found an open seat on 2864/6808 DAL>OAK>HNL to switch to Sunday 3/17! i'll be part of the party now!!

737MAX8

Lucky! A few seats were released today, but it is now completely booked. The only chance for someone to scoop in will be if there is a cancellation.

expert7700

Awesome news!!

Yesterday around 4 PST I found two more seats for sale on 3/17 to HNL and was able to book one for a friend.

Today he said he may not be able to get the time off of work. I will wait to cancel until he is certain but if so I would be happy to coordinate the cancellation with another FTer as it should open a seat back up for sale....

Aloha73G

I was checking religiously every hour or so and snagged a seat yesterday on 3/17 WN6808. I was originally booked on 3/18 HNL-OAK. Now I have to find a flight to OAK from HNL on 3/16.

As a former Aloha Airlines employee and fanboy I am VERY excited to finally welcome SWA to Hawai'i. The first flight being from OAK is perfect since Aloha was the pioneer of 737s between the West Coast and Hawai'i and HNL-OAK was their first route.

I have already booked OGG-HNL-OGG-HNL on 4/28. 737s flying interisland again is a dream come true!!

-Aloha!

bobnchi

Serve up some bags of Macadamia nuts in SWA packaging and pineapples!

dmbolp

Seats Available:

dmbolp

Or go Monday for $159




And come back on WED for $119:

Eric Snyder

I was just able to book a ticket for $424.

I'd have to turn right back around a take a redeye back to SF-- any POV on if this is worth that amount of cash from those who have done it before?

expert7700

Well worth it in my book, there will only ever be one inaugural WN ETOPS flight to Hawaii.

I bought at a similar price and was able to refare lower over the last few days of watching price/availability...

Bummer on the immediate turn, especially since hotels are cheap(ish) on Sunday, and the 3/18 WN flight back to OAK is still selling cheap.

I *AM* very concerned about our group of 5 taking our connecting flight into OAK this Sunday. Not scheduled as a 737MAX but.... It is an early 6am time, presumably very lightly booked fight.... PRIME target for WN to cancel for operational reasons and move people to the next flight a few hours later (that will miss HNL).

If it were any other carrier I'd switch to Sat. PM and pay for an OAK hotel. But Southwest can't handle an overnight connection.... Sure I could ask CS to drop the first leg, but then I'd be liable for full fare tickets $300each for the first leg a day before. Not to mention that OAK-HNL would have been $50 cheaper a ticket than what the connection I bought.

Betterthanyou

Wasn't WN going to use MAX8's on this route?

737MAX8

Where are you connecting from? I promise nothing I have seen this weekend resembles lightly booked.

737MAX8

WN has stated from the very beginning the route would be launched with the 737-800 and later changed to the 737 MAX 8.

I personally believe this MAX issue will be solved before WN would have made the switch anyways.

expert7700

Coming from LAS on WN3075 3/17 655am

If las-oak delays or cancels ahead of time, the 5 of us (2 in our group have no Alist status) would have to luck out and find sests on the earlier las-sfo flight, then uber to OAK.

737MAX8

It's going to be a full flight, so it won't be canceled due to being an easy choice from loads.

That being said, I'm pretty sure if you call, they could change your first leg to Saturday night.

expert7700

Just landed OAK!

Passed the following in row... Hawiian Airlines, Alaska Airlines in special Hawaii livery, THEN the fun one:

Southwest N8329B ETOPS

//was glad to see we have a spare/backup ETOPS aircraft N8327A at the right next to us. Southwest may have learned from the embarassing MAX Dallas triangle launch flight with Gary Kelly onboard.

If any FTers are joining in please say hi. I'm wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt with Southwest Tshirt, with my wife and 10yr old also wearing Southwest swag.

Talked to one if their Captains who flew the test flights. Very interesting conversation. He had the decompression event on the way to OGG, had to descend to 10k feet and divert to Hilo. It was a "surprise" but one of several scenarios they had worked through correctly on the table top exercises. (for avgeek the others included medical, lithium fire, bom...err... aircraft threat)

Southweet has only 4 ETOPS certified check pilots now. Whwn we land they will have 6 (Today and tomorrow one will fly to HNL to observe two and certify two additional pilots).