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Southwest Hawaii Will Add These Four Routes In March

September 9, 2022 by Beat of Hawaii 15 Comments

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Just one month ago, on August 5, we announced that 10 Southwest Hawaii flights had been dropped. Those included popular routes from Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sacramento, and San Diego. That set of cuts represented a mainland-to-Hawaii service reduction of 38% from their peak.

This week, however, Southwest released its schedule of flights that are now bookable through April 10, 2023. Hidden in that announcement was the return of four popular routes. Now Southwest says, not so fast, we aren’t going anywhere. At least on those routes. We’ll have to see how it shakes out, including:

  • Are these going to be seasonal flights only operated at certain times of the year? We noted these are returning for the Spring Break season.
  • Less than daily routes? Many airlines are moving to operate flights from two to four times weekly instead of daily. Hawaiian and Alaska are two examples of that type of schedule. Could Southwest go the same way with some of these routes that are in demand, but not enough to warrant daily service?

While their flights in Hawaii are expanding, Southwest is cutting back significantly on its flight schedule between the US mainland and Hawaii. They will operate just 23 daily flights, which is down from their previous high of 37 Hawaii flights.

Four Southwest Hawaii Routes Starting March 9.

  • Los Angeles to Kauai starts March 9. Daily. Currently priced from $159.
  • Los Angeles to Kona starts March 9. Daily. Currently priced from $415.
  • Sacramento to Maui starts March 9. Daily. Currently priced from $415.
  • San Diego to Maui starts March 9. Daily. Currently priced from $179.

The two routes priced from $415 will get re-priced soon, so check again if you are looking for those.

Six Southwest Hawaii Routes Not Returning.

  • Phoenix to Kauai. Not returning.
  • Phoenix to Kona. Not returning.
  • Sacramento to Kauai. Not returning.
  • Sacramento to Kona. Not returning.
  • San Diego to Kauai. Not returning.
  • San Diego to Kona. Not returning.

Southwest hopes to raise interisland fares $20 starting in January.

When Southwest said they’d cap all seats on all interisland flights at $39 through the end of December, that was unprecedented. That has largely been matched by Hawaiian Airlines.

Starting in January, however, the two competitors hope to raise rates on interisland flights by $20 each way. If that sticks, and it is too early to say if it will, that will bring the lowest cost interisland ticket to $59.

  • 5 flights a day, each way, from Honolulu to Hilo.
  • 6 flights a day, each way, from Honolulu to Kauai.
  • 6 flights a day, each way, from Honolulu to Kona.
  • 11 flights a day, each way, from Honolulu to Maui.
  • 1 flight a day, each way, from Maui to Kauai.

Hat tip to Patrick K. 

 

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  1. Bill Y says

    September 11, 2022 at 10:32 am

    HNL to PPG
    PPG to HNL
    Please..thank you for your services

    Reply
  2. Norman says

    September 11, 2022 at 3:34 am

    Southwest should have couple of Red Eye flights from Oahu & Maui to Vegas!!! Come on Southwest ur airline is on roll!Make it happen!!!!! Do it guys make it happen…..

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    • patrick says

      November 4, 2022 at 2:17 am

      SWA doesn’t have the computer system to handle Redeyes. At least that’s what I’ve heard.

      Reply
  3. David B. says

    September 10, 2022 at 10:50 pm

    WN is not always the cheapest, not by a long shot. We’re having to do a quick turn to LAC and back from LAS at the end of September. WN was almost $200 each way more than AA.

    Mahalo, David

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  4. Maty D says

    September 10, 2022 at 5:27 pm

    Would love to see a Hilo mainland direct flight someday. I’d be on it regularly.

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    • David B. says

      September 10, 2022 at 10:47 pm

      United has a single flight ITO-LAX. Currently not daily, but priced at $159 one way.

      Mahalo, David

      Reply
      • Patrick C says

        November 3, 2022 at 8:50 pm

        last nonstop United Airlines flight is on Saturday Jan 7 2023.

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  5. Richard C says

    September 10, 2022 at 5:52 am

    Pass me your on used SW party snack pack Sacramento to Maui non-stop who would have predicted that. Lol….

    I’d flown that flight to Maui a couple of times it was always packed, so was a big head scratcher when SW dropped it.

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  6. Jason W. says

    September 10, 2022 at 3:36 am

    Thank goodness they reinstated LAX—->LIH—->LAX as nonstop. Thank you Southwest!

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  7. Gerry L says

    September 10, 2022 at 1:35 am

    Great, look forward to hearing more.

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  8. Carole Ann says

    September 9, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    Where I live, we would fly out of Spokane, WA Any flights out of Seattle or Portland? Have SWA credit card and would prefer to only fly SWA.

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  9. Patrick says

    September 9, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    Also non-stop from San Jose to Kauai will be discontinued.

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    • Beat of Hawaii says

      September 9, 2022 at 7:18 pm

      Hi Patrick.

      Thanks again. The San Jose/Lihue flight is continuing through the end of Southwest’s current schedule.

      Aloha.

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  10. Theresa L. says

    September 9, 2022 at 4:31 pm

    Thank you Very much for the level of detail you provided!!

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  11. Mark L says

    September 9, 2022 at 3:56 pm

    Aloha guys –

    The four returning mainland to HI flights are all daily.

    Reply

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