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Southwest Hawaii Stiffens Competition: 11 New Daily Flights Exposed

Lastest news on Southwest schedules and fares. Some routes continue to have great deals for summer. Find out more in today’s post.

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  1. So it looks like SWA will not be flying to hawaii until 2019??? Also, reading some of these comments about the other airlines i.e Hawaiian and United I beg to differ their prices are outrageous never have I paid for a flight to HNL from California for $870 I can fly all the way to miami for 342 round trip…please please SWA hopefully you make these flights available especially from Sacramento…I see Sacramento was on the list but now it is gone 🙁 I love SWA I hope they can make this happen sooner than later

  2. Hello, my name is Becky and I love your website and reading all the comments. I am hooked now! We are flying from Albuquerque to Ohau, June 23rd to June 30th, and I wanted to wait for SWA to fly there but I do not think that will happen by then, so I wanted to know, what is the best airline to fly and how much am I looking to pay? I also want to know when I should buy our tickets?

    I value your advice and I appreciate your reply! 🙂

    1. Hi Becky.

      Thank you! Best combination of price, stops and duration is American at about $900. If you could fly on 6/21 and 6/28 instead, the price is $765.

      Aloha.

      1. Hello again, We are flying from ABQ to HNL on June 23rd – 30th and is it best I buy my tickets now or wait? Do you think the prices will just continue to clime? Thank you for all your great advice.

        1. Hi Becky.

          We answered this yesterday as follows. Perhaps part we forgot that you’re needing is whether to buy at $900 now and answer is yes.

          Hi Becky.

          Thank you! Best combination of price, stops and duration is American at about $900. If you could fly on 6/21 and 6/28 instead, the price is $765.

          Aloha.

  3. I just want to say I’m a loyal SWA passenger.I look forward to your flights from Hawaii to tbe mainland and back. Wishing you all the best.

    Mario

  4. Pleased that Southwest will start flying to Hawaii. A couple of thoughts…….Other carriers work very hard, particularly Hawaiian Airlines, provide a wonderful Hawaiian atmosphere on board and at gates for their customers….and they have reasonable, sometime very cheap fares. It would be special for Southwest to kick up just a notch a bit on Southwest flights to Hawaii beyond peanuts and routine drinks. Mai tais, Hawaiian chips, or something of a sort as a minimum. Travelers are very loyal to carriers like Hawaiian and sometimes United because of that extra Hawaiian touch at no additional cost. Break the routine a bit. Thanks

    1. Hi Earl.

      Good idea. We don’t really know Southwest or how they will approach Hawaii. Should be interesting. We plan to get on-board the first flight and report on that.

      Aloha.

  5. Aloha, would love to see SWA fly to Honolulu out of either Oakland (Oak) or San Francisco (SFO) to transport our Pearl Harbor Survivors back for the 77th Anniversary this coming December. December 1st would be a nice date for the “boy’s” to return to Pearl.

  6. Just one comment about interisland flights on Southwest. While short flights used to be Southwest’s bread and butter, Southwest in recent years has decreased the number of shorter flights (e.g. intra-Texas) and increased the number of longer flights. So, I wouldn’t be overly optimistic that interisland flights are coming.

  7. I’m a loyal follower of Beat of Hawaii. It’s gospel to me. However, I can’t help notice other sites, claiming to be travel sites were reporting in Nov/Dec that the earliest Southwest will fly to Hawaii is end of year to beginning 2019. Beat of Hawaii on Jan 1 said MAYBE late summer 2018 to end of the year. I’m curious why the other sites are swearing on a stack of Bibles the earliest is end of year to early next. Fake news??? 😉

    1. Hi Melissa.

      Thanks!! We do expect to see SWA by the end of the year, if they can. That’s assuming they get all of their logistics ironed out. It’s really quite simple. End of year is high season and a great way to start in Hawaii profitably. Airlines generally try to start routes then and in summer, unless other things get in the way. A good example of that is Hawaiian’s new routes. They would have started them in Q4 2017, but the A321neo’s were delayed coming from Airbus, which pushed things into early 2018. At that point they just couldn’t easily wait any longer.

      We have our ears to the ground and as you know have been covering Hawaii travel and our airlines exclusively for ten years. We try hard to know what’s going on. It’s not gospel, but at the same time we don’t think anyone (other than Southwest in this case) has information that we don’t. We keep our ears to the ground and are in contact with the industry stakeholders.

      Aloha.

  8. I was born in Oahu and like to go back and visit as often as I can…. 66 yrs. old now and now would like to bring my grandchildren to see where their “Mimi” was born and lived!

  9. Hello, Is there a place to sign up to receive updates as to when southwest will begin to offer flights to the Hawaii and other islands? My family is from Sacramento but it seems flights are usually better priced out of san jose or san fran. We are holding off buying our tickets to hawaii, Oahu at this time since we are hoping southwest offers tickets soon. IF there is a way to keep up to date notification we would like to sign up. Thank you

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