What is a good fare to Hawaii from East Coast on UA?
Jan 11, 2009, 6:11 am
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What is a good fare to Hawaii from East Coast on UA?
Considering a trip to Hawaii in April; any advice on what would generally be a good fare in the time around Easter? Is $715 rt IAD/LIH about as good as it gets?
Jan 11, 2009, 6:52 am
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Jan 11, 2009, 7:44 am
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To get a great fare, you either need competition or a mistake fare. I booked EWR-LIH for $276 on UA in May 2008 for travel in Dec 2008 in a short fare war with CO from CO's hubs to HNL and LIH. I also purchased EWR-HNL on UA for $458 RT last Spring. I frequently see UA fares from PHL to HNL in the $460 range because of competition with US, but didn't really check LIH. I would check from PHL if I were you. UA pretty well owns the market from IAD, but maybe you will see a better fare from DCA or BWI. To answer your original question, I frequently see fares < $500 from the East Coast to HNL. LIH is tougher. I see LIH for more like $650.
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Jan 11, 2009, 7:48 am
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How about OGG?
I was checking NYC-XXX-OGG for Sep/Oct - pricing out in the $1,000 range. Trying to go weekend-weekend though, sure that doesn't help. Any chance of that dropping? Seems pretty high...
Jan 11, 2009, 7:54 am
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The deals are usually to HNL. Very rarely are there terrific prices to LIH or OGG.
HNL seems to have fare wars once or twice a year than can drive the prices to $400 or less. However, they might not be from your city (they tend to be from hubs, but I don't recall seeing it from IAD), and you usually have to be pretty quick to snag them.
$715 seems like a decent price.
HNL seems to have fare wars once or twice a year than can drive the prices to $400 or less. However, they might not be from your city (they tend to be from hubs, but I don't recall seeing it from IAD), and you usually have to be pretty quick to snag them.
$715 seems like a decent price.
Jan 11, 2009, 8:37 am
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In HNL at the moment on a <$500 fare from IAD - UA's fare sale to Hawaii earlier this year helped, dropped fares ~25% from the WAS market and made me jump on this ticket.
Jan 11, 2009, 9:12 am
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I used to live in HNL for about eight years. I consider any fare under $700 to be pretty good, with the average being in the the $500-$600 range.
Best fare BWI-HNL was Thanksgiving 2001 - $250.
Worst fare was BWI-LAX-HNL-LAX-BWI this past August - $1600
Planning a trip for the end of February and the recent price I found was $535, which was up from $440 a week earlier.
Best fare BWI-HNL was Thanksgiving 2001 - $250.
Worst fare was BWI-LAX-HNL-LAX-BWI this past August - $1600
Planning a trip for the end of February and the recent price I found was $535, which was up from $440 a week earlier.
Jan 11, 2009, 9:29 am
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I used to get Delta on sale from CVG->HNL for $550. Last year I paid $1100 for July travel.
$700 is a fair price, not a great price. With April being low season, and gas continuing to stay low, I might wait a bit.
$700 is a fair price, not a great price. With April being low season, and gas continuing to stay low, I might wait a bit.
Jan 11, 2009, 9:48 am
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I'd say $400-$500 is a good price
Jan 11, 2009, 11:07 am
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I scored a $531 fare from IAD to HNL for travel 12/24/08-12/31/08, after having bought a $947 fare the previous July for the same dates. The IAD schedule was actually better too - one less connection on the return.
Jan 11, 2009, 11:45 am
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March & April are Spring Break time, and there can be a bit of a rush at that time. As others have said, $700 isn't bad; take it and watch, refare if possible.
Jan 11, 2009, 1:05 pm
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Having flown from HNL to the East Coast well over a hundred times, the fares have ranged from around $600 to $1600 over the years. Of course, there's the rare exception like right after 9/11 where you could go from HNL-JFK for $250 but that won't happen again hopefully.
I'm going to DCA in two weeks and the fare was $636 so I would say $715 isn't bad at all.
I'm going to DCA in two weeks and the fare was $636 so I would say $715 isn't bad at all.
Jan 11, 2009, 5:26 pm
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I use Travelocity fare alerts set for Hawaii airports. Last part of Dec. I got two ATL/LIH tickets for late Jan. for $562. Outbound was thru ORD and inbound was thru IAD. Of course you get alerts for other airlines, but UA is usually pretty close to the others.
Jan 11, 2009, 7:39 pm
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This looks like a good fare. FWIW, I am getting the same fares for DEN-HNL, same period.
Jan 13, 2009, 2:36 pm
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It's a nice perk that UA allows that. Delta won't allow you to refare. Once you lock your rate in, it's yours unless you want to pay a hefty cancellation and rebooking fee.