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This article is pure speculation.
Unfortunately, I am not convinced that we will see giant savings if Southwest flies to Hawaii. We have flown Southwest domestically for years and watched the fares go up,up and up away – just like everyone else’s.
Southwest has great customer service – no hassle and no cost ticket changes, etc. and great employees. But, just check some of the itineraries and you will soon see that their fares are right up there with most of the other airlines. They have cut their non stops down just like all the other airlines.
I really don’t expect gigantic savings when/if Southwest flies to Hawaii. We can expect good service and great customer service.
Hi Colleen,
Why would we expect SWA to give more deals to and from anywhere than are absolutely necessary?
All the airlines are in business to make a profit and it ends there. The name of the company, whether they are technically a low cost carrier or not is essentially irrelevant. When there is strong competition the prices drop and without it, they are high.
All the best to you! Thanks for commenting.
Aloha.
Isn’t that Colleen’s point–so what if SWA flies to Hawaii, if the fares are the same it doesn’t matter much to most. Within the 48, SWA is often NOT the least expensive carrier. They only make sense for baggage (if you don’t have status with a legacy carrier or a credit card to make your bags free), change fees, or loyalty. The only hope for people is that they bust open a couple currently expensive routes, as they have occasionally done.
As a retiree of SWA I can honestly say that our prices go up due to higher fuel costs. Although we lose millions a year in baggage revenue Gary will not add that extra expense to the flying public. Low fares are frequently offered but they are bought up quickly. I luv SWA and can’t wait till they hit Hawaii. I now live in Oahu but commuted for almost two years while still working in Las Vegas. As an employer SWA is the absolute best in this country.
SWA is incredible to their employees, and they do have great customer service! I do luv my SWA crews!!! I am a former AS flight attendant, and have many friends that have moved to SWA or have been SWA! Theres a reason why they are in the top ten of fortune 500 companies! However, as a passenger, I just dont care for the style of SWA….. I have high hopes though! They have changed their uniforms, and are becoming slightly more classy, which makes me happy! i love to see a classy FA, its part of the glamour of flying!!
Hawaiian Airlines does have good service. However, Southwest would not support the local businesses any less than Hawaiian Airlines does, and they would provide more jobs to the island. Any business being taxed and doing business in Hawaii is supporting the local economy. In most cases the positions are filled by local people. Southwest will come in and offer fair rates to the local people, and tourist coming to the island. The other airlines will drop their rates to what they should have been charging all a long.
To Mike Ng,
Most Asian carriers are heavily Government subsidized whereas most US carriers are heavily taxed by our Government. Thus brings a whole new variable into the affordability equation.
Brad, Flying to the Caribbean and Mexico has nothing to do with “ocean” flying. We currently do not have 180 minute ETOPS certification which is what is required to fly to Hawaii. Sometime in the future I’ll be willing to bet we will service Hawaii but it’s not in the short time plans.
Southwest already flys to Cancun, Puerto Rico and Aruba, so they are ocean certified… and bags fly free there, too. I would definitely fly with them to my Aloha!
We are only 1 family that wants South West to come to Hawaii! We have flown them before when we lived on the mainland and were very happy with their service. Hawaiian airlines does fly people to the Big Island but it is hard to get a flight out of he Big Island with them we have to do layovers either in Honolulu or Maui doesn’t make sense?? Their fares are so high too. PLEASE HURRY TO HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!
Betty Randall
seem like US citizen always get the crappy plane flying domesticly.
I flew about an hour on 777 singapore airline between singapore and penang . so if singpaore can fly such big plane in a short distance I would expect US airpline to do the same atleast from west coast to Hawaii.
I was sure bags fly for free how about now for hawaiian bound flights, I smell fee’s are the profitable way now. Hmmm.
You’re right. SW will probably CHG bag fees…HA has made millions doing this.
I smell them too.
I’m sorry but I will continue to fly Hawaiian airlines they have the best service and it supports a local business in hawaii
K. Tamure,
You gotta be kindling me….one choice for inter island!! how about another major carrier flying to the islands and west coast. Hawaii needs another choice, HAL is now a monopoly with no one else offering competition. WE NEED ANOTHER CARRIER IN OUR HAWAIIAN ISLANDS… please come over SWA !!!
Aloha,
Bob