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I have reserved tickets for 4 with Hawaiian Air to Honolulu for 5 nights starting on June 3rd which can’t be modified or cancelled. What is my best option at this point? Please help! Can I possibly cancel the flight and get refund?
Hi Peter.
You may have seen the many hundreds of comments we have received on this topic. What people reported the best results on was to connect with the airline via direct messaging in social media. Given that there will still be a 14-day isolation, we’re hopeful that you will be able to be accommodated. Let us know.
Aloha.
Helpful info. Thank you. We have a time interval condo at The Whaler, Kaanapali. 14 day quar antine with no stop at a grocery store obviously means we can’t come this year. Not the people before us. Not the folks all the way back to the beginning of this. Plus, family on Big Island can’t use condo because even HA residents must quar antine for 14 days. Ridiculous. I feel sorry for us but my heart breaks for the people of Hawaii. Will your economy ever recover under the radical leadership of your governor? Not for a long time. Tragic.
Don’t cry for us, Argentina. If we were dumb enough to tank our own economy, we deserve everything we get.
NO ONE is tanking any economy on purpose.
I am profoundly grateful to live in Kauai where citizens health is more important that tourist dollars. I get it, its hard. You might want your readers to realize that we have a small hospital and something like 21 ventilators.
Amen. Thank you.
I have lost all trust in our government leaders. Our Governor is clueless and our Maui Mayor thinks he’s some kind of modern-day Ali’i. I can’t wait until the next election cycle to get some people in there that have more common sense that what these guys are showing.
When do you expect the quar antine to end on Oahu/Honolulu?
Honolulu just extended shelter in place till June 39. 14 day quar antine will apply till at least that date
So disappointing and my heart goes out to all the unemployed families. One of the main issues is so-called, “mission creep”. US saw it happen in Vietnam and WW1. In part, because of lack of federal decisioning and in part because of these Governors’ power grab, the goal posts keep moving on all of us. In March, we were all told the shutdown was to flatten the curve and allow the healthcare and medical communities time to catch up with this new disease. Build up supplies. We were never told that, as a condition to RE-opening, that there would need to be a cure/treatment/vac cine. Saying that in March would have caused widespread anxiety across the US and considerable damage to the economy (more so than now).
Ige and the these other controlling governors need to put the best healthcare practices in place and take the restrictions off the republic. Let the market decide for themselves if jumping on an airplane to Hawaii is best right now. Many will decide it’s not. Protect the most vulnerable and give people the right to decide…let them get back to work and provide and be productive. The extra $600/week will run dry before too long.
Well said friend! I have a ton of family and friends in healthcare and while this is contagious, it is very weak and easily treated in a prompt fashion – of course if one has many comorbidities, one is especially vulnerable. You need to look at the facts over fear, and look at the number of people that have recovered and not constantly at the death toll pushed into peoples faces to literally scare the life out of them:(… You risk your life walking out the door each day. Put common sense Protocols in place; isolate and protect the most vulnerable ( eg. elderly, those with certain co-morbidities; don’t isolate the healthy… And let the good citizens of the United States decide any risks they’re willing to take, as a free person living in a land of liberty🇺🇸
85000 citizens dead as of today. So if its so EASY to treat why that many dead? DO YOU REALIZE that anyone can be asymptomatic show no signs of the illness and pass it along to you healthy or not? COME ON!
You clearly don’t undrestand that the numbers are tainted. The total deaths have never been accurate, due to overzealous CDC guidelines. Hospitals and medical facilities have been encouraged to document c0vid cases and deaths. They are paid 13k per c0vid treatment, and 39k per c0vid treatment on ventilators.
Some states are walking back their numbers. They realize it was not accurate to report deaths, if the death was not caused by this disease. Thousands of deaths have been reported, without being the true cause of death. It’s naive to think that the number of deaths is accurate, at this point.
It’s even more so to not understand that the longer this goes on there will be far more death from the collateral damage of being shutdown. Suicides are already up, and on Kauai 4 young men decided to end their lives in one week earlier this month. With an annual average of 16 state wide, that’s extremely concerning.
I truly hope you can break free from the regular scheduled programming and expand your knowledge and experience with this disease and how it has/will affect others lives long term. There are over 200k jobs in Hawaii that depend on Tourism. Most are locals that need to feed their families.
Aloha and Mahalo
Hi Jim.
Our thanks for your dozens of comments over the years.
Aloha.
Re temperature testing
The key to reopening the economy in the short run is TEMPERATURE TESTING both personally and before anyone can do anything. Everyone should test their temperature every day in the morning and if it is over 100 degrees get a cv test and self isolate until they get the results. ALL businesses and schools should also require a temperature check of EVERYONE prior to entry, and if the temperature is over 100 degrees they should be denied entry, and then be required get a cv test and self isolate until they get the results. A positive cv test means self isolation for 14 days at least, and until they are symptom free (and their temperature is under 100 degrees).
This will also decrease the pressure on cv testing since there are not enough tests now. Many countries, businesses and the military do temperature testing now, and this was the protocol at the White House as well earlier. The only alternative to temperature testing is to continue the sick cv “blind date with death” to open the economy that we have now.
The other CDC recommendations should continue as well. Distancing, good hygiene (hand washing) and masks should be required everywhere.
I appreciate your attention to this urgent matter. Open up Hawaii now.
Pray tell how will you know who is Asymptomatic? Not by the way your demanding hawaii open back up
Start small. Keep the number of visitors coming in to a maximum amount each day. Whatever the authorities feel they can safely handle. There are only a few flights coming and going now and they are blocking off half of the seats. I would certainly be happy to get tested and bring proof of that in order to board a plane to Hawaii. Distancing and Wearing masks while in stores, hotels or other businesses has become a normal, daily routine for most of us so there is no reason why we can’t continue these safe practices in Hawaii. Hotels and condo’s could also keep guest counts to a manageable and practical number. I’m sure there may be some folks who still haven’t cancelled their flights for June (since airlines haven’t cancelled) so start with those small, manageable numbers and see how things go. A small, soft opening is better than none at all and can get at least a few people back to work.
hi there. can you please check your crystal ball. we are planning a trip for march of 2021. we already have the booking.thinking of planning on planes in November. does this make sense? please your thoughts and thanks for the great website. so appreciate it.
Hi Mary.
Thanks for your many comments. The world isn’t predictable and neither is Hawaii. We want to say of course it will be fine, but then again, we wouldn’t have ever expected to be in this mess.
Aloha.
I have flights and reservations to Kauai for August 8th – 18th, with reservations at Koa Kai, think that’s too early?
Thanks,
Jay
Hi Jay.
We should know within the next month. Hate to predict.
Aloha.
U HOPE
had KONA res for the coming week….
.ain’t gonna happen…..CANCELLED a few weeks back