What you can do as new technology increases the cost of Hawaii airfares, hotels, and vacation rentals.
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What you can do as new technology increases the cost of Hawaii airfares, hotels, and vacation rentals.
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I agree 100 percent with your statement that browser history is used by travel sites to “scare” the consumer into buying before prices go up further or sell out. The hotel room consolidators have been doing this for years. This is another example of Big Tech rigging the system to cause economic harm to the user.
I have been having second thoughts about ever going to Hawaii with all the jacked up pricing. High costs for flights, hotels, and parks. I feel like you are nickel and diming people to death. I can go lots of other places for a lot less. Thanks but no thanks.
Amen!
How much of this is your opinion vs. actuality? Your statement of “Ancillary charges will also now be dynamically priced”. There is no data to support this neither has there been any “talk” of this happening. Bag fees are static. Seat selection costs are static. They may change but they certainly don’t fluctuate from day to day. And there hasn’t any talk of this happening.
Just my .02
I guess the southwest will drive down prices myth has been debunked. Good luck to those who can afford Maui prices as a former 20 year resident hard to justify 2 nights at an average hotel for what I used to pay for a mortgage and rent. Oahu prices for hotels aren’t that bad.
I don’t think this is rocket science. You can see it in the price of gasoline. When we booked our trip to Kauai in late spring airfare was very reasonable, and now airfare to Hawaii is higher than anything I have seen in the past. It just reflected in the price of oil and the airlines are passing that cost along. Also, given that much of the world is now opening to travel after the pandemic, I don’t think Hawaii is going to need to worry about too much tourism. Given the fact that both cost and availability are being affected dramatically I think Hawaii tourism is going to see a decrease in the coming fall and winter.
Mahalo Guys.
I have a neighbor who lives up the street, he’s in the business of selling fuel to airlines. This is usually in about six month increments. Last time round the airlines got very good prices on fuel but, this time the prices are much higher. It’s a completed process with many variables.
There is one very large factor in determining the cost of airfare. Just over 80% of the cost to run an airline is the price of fuel. That info from the Wall Street Journal. Fuel cost exceeds the cost of crew, aircraft and airport. I remember when we came back from Kauai last time the plane had a total of 25 people on it. That airline lost its shirt on that flight.
I have had issues with the airline constantly changing my initial flights. I tend to book early and last year purchased and paid for a first class round trip to Maui going thru SF with a return at 9pm with a 2 hour layover in Denver.
After 6 unasked for changes, with the only options to make more than the initial 1 stop per flight, my return flight left at 11:00 PM with a 6 hour layover in Denver. To make matters worse the flight leaving Denver was running an hour late. A seven hour layover is uncalled for.
Have already had 1 “unasked for” change for my 2023 Hawaii flights. Will see how that pans out.
I know your hurt. Both Alaska and United are guilty of this nonsense, I do understand the reasons for those disruptions, it has to do with cost. However, I also feel they offer the nicer looking routing as a come on. Southwest does their booking process much later, it’s perhaps a bit more reliable, however they too will change routing on you. I hate sitting in an airport for long periods of time.
Which airline is this with al the changes ma’am?
I think some of teh flight changes also has to do with pilot and staff shortages, as well as equipment changes. I’m see this on the mainland a lot.
This has been going on for years. It’s not new, they just admit to doing it now. There were many times we would be looking at prices only to have it change, when looked at other times or hotels or even cars.
Mahalo !
How typical, spend lots of money trying to figure out how to raise prices and not improving anything for the customer. If they could figure a way for passengers to fly standing up, they’d do it.
“Sophistication” = Greed.
Hi maybe drop the Air price from Sydney to Honolulu under the $1000 mark they might get more bookings and I don’t mean $ 999