sggolf

Booked WN to Hawaii using points in Aug and now need to change flights to a week later...How do I do this?

There is nothing in the same buckets and in fact, all the point reservations are highly inflated...

Appreciate if any one has any ideas.?

dmbolp

Nothing special about Hawaii; your change options are the same as any other destination

NoStressHere

You change and book at the current price.

Same with ALL booked tickets.

Or just cancel and have funds available for a year. (usually)

lougord99

sggolf

Sorry, I know how to make a change. I want to move my flights out week out but "not at current rates". Waiting for another sale, schedule change or anyone has heard
that WN will offer another free change period.

Nirvana91

There is no way to do what you are asking besides the options that you listed (sale or schedule change). I think it's unlikely that there will be "another free change period," however you can always hope.

This isn't your specific situation, but any time I end up stuck with a flight that I can no longer use I still keep it until the time of the flight. A schedule change can save you, or also an extreme delay (I think anything over 2 hours would cover you). I believe it used to be that for points bookings you could just no-show and the points would automatically redeposit, however that seemed risky to me so if the flight was on time I'd cancel an hour or two beforehand to make sure everything was on the up-and-up. I realize, however, that this is not your specific case (you still want to fly, but on a later date). Just cross your fingers for a schedule change at this point. If you have a ton of points you could try booking your desired flight with points as a placeholder and then if your original flight ends up with a change, cancel the new points booking and have them move the old flight to the newly-desired date. I'm not 100% sure if that would work but it might be worth trying if you have lots of banked points.

nsx

Others have reported in the Hawaii thread that fares can become very low a few days before travel. Maybe you'll get lucky.

Tanic

It's still occurring but very sporadically. For example OGG to OAK two days from now is $139 while other WGA fares are in the $300 range.

rsteinmetz70112

But have they become low a week out? I haven't seen a report to indicate that, although multiple short moves might be possible with points.

dmbolp

Book the new flight at the high rate and hope it drops in price/points a few days before departure, then make the change

dmbolp

OAK-HNL last minute deals look to have dried up; have been checking for days and not seeing anything under $400 last minute

Tanic

Interestingly eastbound flights are last minute cheap. I would have thought WN was holding back westbound seats until the last minute wx forecasts were available. Maybe pax are staying in the islands and never returning.

HNL-OAK this week:

sdsearch

No more. Right now HNL-OAK shows:

26
$599
27
$599
28
$599
29
$599
30
$599

It's two weeks from now that it has a price in the range you captured. On Jun 9, it shows $214.

But then I'm checking on a holiday weekend Sunday morning, and you were checking on a Wednesday afternoon. So maybe it's only at certain times of week?