9 thoughts on “How We Saved 62% On Hawaiian Airlines First Class”
Dorothy P
Booked a hotel today at the Aqua Aloha Surf Waikiki. Was charged %543.00 for the room, $423.00 for taxes & fees. Now, I find out from the hotel, after booking, there is an additional $359.00 charge which a $100.00 security deposit will be refunded upon check out. I inquired what the additional $259.00 was for. I was told it was a cleaning fee that was being charged to clean the room. Please someone tell me when you got charged a fee to clean your room upon check out. What happened to the Aloha spirit? Now it’s who can Con a guest faster. This is not a 4* hotel.
Thanks for your informative article with excellent tips on how to score great savings. I have been tracking prices on Hawaiian and notice a lot if fluctuation, sometimes hourly, on the HNL/SFO route.
Slightly off the topic, but have you noticed a lot of flight cancelations for HA12 (HNL to SFO)? It’s Hawaiian Air’s daily and only non-stop from HNL to SFO. I counted 4 cancelations within the last 14 days. This also results in 4 cancelations for HA11, the turnaround return flight from SFO to HNL. I also noticed HA12 on Monday 5/08 has an equipment change from the wide body A330 to the single aisle A321. Are you aware of anything happening within HA that causing these disruptions?
Thanks for asking. We too, did notice the four cancellations in about a week, followed by the single downgrade to A321. Since then, the flight appears to be operating normally, and we don’t have any more information about what might have happened. Indeed, it was very frustrating for up to 1000 or more passengers.
When will Hawaiian offer deals from the mainland to the islands for late summer? I get emails with airfare specials but so far the furthest out is June.
Try to play with different days (i.e. mid week days) and date ranges. On Hawaiian Airlines website, they have the calendar feature that you can play around to see prices’ trend. I was able to get a $499 ticket per person from Boston-HNL-Lihue (Kauai)for 3 people when searched for 13 days trip for Thurs flight from Boston vs $1100-$1600 other days.
Of course monitor the prices months in advance. I found the airlines’ pricing are very tricky now aday as mentioned in the article that the deal might work when purchase one but not two or even purchase it minutes after. It fluctuates so much.
This also applies to award tickets (sort of)
1st class from LAX-HNL-LIH we’re going for 80,000 miles. For some reason they dropped to 40,000 for a couple of days. I was lucky and was able to snag 2 of them.
Whew. Yes, I have had some great luck getting air deals in the way past. But, it took so much time effort, and work. I was younger and saved so much money and was able to fly to Hawaii quite often. Now, I just dont have all this energy to play this game, and being older, if I screw up, it will be a loss instead of a gain. Wish i could just get a good deal without all this game.
Booked a hotel today at the Aqua Aloha Surf Waikiki. Was charged %543.00 for the room, $423.00 for taxes & fees. Now, I find out from the hotel, after booking, there is an additional $359.00 charge which a $100.00 security deposit will be refunded upon check out. I inquired what the additional $259.00 was for. I was told it was a cleaning fee that was being charged to clean the room. Please someone tell me when you got charged a fee to clean your room upon check out. What happened to the Aloha spirit? Now it’s who can Con a guest faster. This is not a 4* hotel.
Dear BOH,
Thanks for your informative article with excellent tips on how to score great savings. I have been tracking prices on Hawaiian and notice a lot if fluctuation, sometimes hourly, on the HNL/SFO route.
Slightly off the topic, but have you noticed a lot of flight cancelations for HA12 (HNL to SFO)? It’s Hawaiian Air’s daily and only non-stop from HNL to SFO. I counted 4 cancelations within the last 14 days. This also results in 4 cancelations for HA11, the turnaround return flight from SFO to HNL. I also noticed HA12 on Monday 5/08 has an equipment change from the wide body A330 to the single aisle A321. Are you aware of anything happening within HA that causing these disruptions?
Hi Jon.
Thanks for asking. We too, did notice the four cancellations in about a week, followed by the single downgrade to A321. Since then, the flight appears to be operating normally, and we don’t have any more information about what might have happened. Indeed, it was very frustrating for up to 1000 or more passengers.
Aloha.
When will Hawaiian offer deals from the mainland to the islands for late summer? I get emails with airfare specials but so far the furthest out is June.
Hi Mike.
Probably in the next month.
Aloha.
Try to play with different days (i.e. mid week days) and date ranges. On Hawaiian Airlines website, they have the calendar feature that you can play around to see prices’ trend. I was able to get a $499 ticket per person from Boston-HNL-Lihue (Kauai)for 3 people when searched for 13 days trip for Thurs flight from Boston vs $1100-$1600 other days.
Of course monitor the prices months in advance. I found the airlines’ pricing are very tricky now aday as mentioned in the article that the deal might work when purchase one but not two or even purchase it minutes after. It fluctuates so much.
Aloha Jeff and Rob! It all comes down to supply and demand. Tickets priced way too high, the demand will go down along with the prices, eventually.
This also applies to award tickets (sort of)
1st class from LAX-HNL-LIH we’re going for 80,000 miles. For some reason they dropped to 40,000 for a couple of days. I was lucky and was able to snag 2 of them.
Whew. Yes, I have had some great luck getting air deals in the way past. But, it took so much time effort, and work. I was younger and saved so much money and was able to fly to Hawaii quite often. Now, I just dont have all this energy to play this game, and being older, if I screw up, it will be a loss instead of a gain. Wish i could just get a good deal without all this game.