Alaska Airlines is offering 25% off flights, including Hawaiian, valid through tonight, April 28, for travel spanning three months of summer and then through mid-November. Book today using promo code HAWAIINOW.
Summer is finally on the table.
Travel is valid April 28 through June 30 and again from August 11 through November 18, depending on direction. It is the first meaningful sale now fully inside Alaska’s system since the April 22 cutover, and the first to reach into summer dates. For Hawaii bound travelers waiting to see how pricing would look post-cutover, and with fare increases due to higher fuel costs, this is the first real signal.
Outbound travel to Hawaii is blocked from May 20 through May 23, and return travel is blocked from May 23 through May 26. The sale doesn’t qualify from July 1 through August 10 outbound, and through August 17 for returns. But June, much of August and all of September do work. The middle of summer, when Hawaii demand is strongest, is obviously not part of the deal.
25% off is on the base fare only.
The discount applies only to the base fare and excludes taxes, fees, and first class. It is limited to one discount per reservation for up to seven travelers booked together on the same fare. Actual savings shrink a bit once everything is added back in.
The afternoon-and-overnight rule.
Flights to/from Hawaii must depart between 12:00 PM and 6:59 AM local time. Morning mainland departures, which many travelers prefer, are not eligible. In addition, not every flight on those sale dates will be eligible. The schedule itself is part of the filter, easy to miss when placing until you are pricing real flight schedules.
Mainland to and from Hawaii.
Interisland flights are not included, a shift from the last major Hawaii sale before the April 22 cutover. So this time, the focus is entirely on mainland-Hawaii routes. Mainland visitors get the headline deal.
First sale fully within Alaska’s ecosystem.
This is the first major Hawaii sale to run entirely through Alaska’s platform since the April 22 transition. Readers have been asking how the new system would handle pricing, availability, and booking flow. The 25% is one part of the answer. The interesting way availability is controlled around time of day is the other. Summer is included enough to make the sale feel broader than usual, while the most valuable dates and times stay protected.
Will the summer dates on this sale work well enough to get you to book today? What did you think about the interesting new restrictions?
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So of the months or weeks available from the mainland you can receive 25% off from a 12pm flight to a 6:59 am flight which is mainly a red eye arrival flight. Not valid on Hawaii departing flights. So no discount on round trip bookings or just a one way flight. Outside of black out dates Alaska/Hawaiian seems to only give travelers a very short window to purchase these offers in figuring this all out. Discounts are not valid with any other offers so do you have to pay full price to travel on your return flight? At this point I would compare with OTA’s to see if you save more on some round trip hotel/flight package deal.
Booked San Diego to Lihue round trip easily. Saved $300 on saver fare. Thanks for the tip.
This is a joke sale. The code doesn’t apply to points. With the code the price is what it was before the war…gas hike.
Did a quick search HNL to DTW … no deal! FIrst class was $100-200 more than premium sale seat. Maybe that was the deal.
I got excited when I saw a $203 one-way offering, but alas, it had 2 stops and an 11 hour layover. The rest, well, were pricey. Sigh…
Just checked … it is still hundreds of $$ cheaper on AA on a direct R/T flight PHX-LIH.