Minneapolis to Maui, Hawaii

My family and I are hoping to go to Maui this Feb. from Minneapolis – we are just waiting for flight prices to drop.

I was wondering if you have heard anything about flight prices dropping to Hawaii anytime soon?

Hmmm, they sometimes drop as soon as christmas break is over - you could start seeing some movement soon as a matter of fact - like today or tomorrow.

Checking now .... I see prices for $650 or so on Expedia from the 9th to the 16th. Honestly, that's a pretty good price these days from that location. I don't know if they will move much from that.

Bing flight predictor says these prices are probably not going to drop.

Flights From Las Vegas Nevada to Hawaii, Honolulu or Hawaii to Las Vegas

This question came in May

I'm really stressing out I have been looking on most website for flights from Hawaii to las vegas return and I cant find anything cheaper than $940 return per person I want a direct flight - can you help me find a cheaper airline.

Have you searched at Expedia? I just did and found a trip for $712 in June ... but I don't know when you are flying. Airline prices are going way up because fuel prices are going so high - so $712 is still quite a bit higher than flights to las vegas typically are. Lots of people in Hawaii go to vegas and many travel agents here specialize in it. You might want to contact one and see what they can do for
you. Here's one

Then again in July:

Its been a while just wondering if you can see if the cheaper airfares to las from hnl have been released yet for November, if not when is the best time to book?

I'm not a travel agent so you can do these searches yourself. :)

http://flights.expedia.com/

If I do the search right now, this is what I get

Nonstop
from $781

1 stop
from $676

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from $676
from $738
from $766
from $791
from $790
from $801
from $823

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2+ stops
from $750
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from $750
from $750
from $923
from $771


These prices aren't bad. I would guess that if gas prices go down you might be able to get something closer to between $500 and $600 but if they don't, well prices might go up the closer you get to November. And if you are flying anywhere on or around Thanksgiving then prices will be high. Good luck on your decision!

Honolulu to Kona and Kona to Honolulu - Best Prices and Flights

Ok, the only way to get from Honolulu HNL to the Big Island, Kona KOA is to fly. You can either fly Go! Airlines or Hawaiian Airlines at the time that I am writing this. You can read my page on the state of Interisland Carriers in Hawaii if you want to know if this has changed.

Looking at Go! Airlines:

Looking at Tomorrow, the best available price is $104 one way, but most available flights are $129 one way.

Looking at 1 week from now, the best available price is $84 one way.

Looking at 1 month from now, the lowest available price is $69 dollars. It seems that our current lowest price is from Go! $69 dollars one way unless a sale comes up. It definitely seems to be helpful to book more than one week out.

Hawaiian Airlines

Tomorrow - lowest price is $104 but most are sitting at $134

One week from now - $69 is lowest available but most flights are $74 to $104

one month from now - $ plenty of available $69 dollar flights

Expedia vs Orbitz vs Priceline - which airfare search is best to use?

I'm planning a trip to the mainland in January and I automatically started my search with Expedia because I am the most comfortable with them. My husband prefers Orbitz so we checked with them too. Searching for the best price, we also went to priceline to see what they had to offer.

Searching with Expedia is easy - they lay out the prices and the times with their airline comparison engine in a way that you can just glance at the results and tell exactly when the flight flies and what the price is. They first have you pick the best departure for you and THEN you go and pick the best return flight for you.

Then, we went to Orbitz - Orbitz does this thing where they lay out every possible option to fly ahead of time - so I literally had four pages of flights to go through and decide which one I wanted. So, if there was one flight to the mainland on ATA airlines, but I had to connect throught Honolulu on either Aloha, Hawaiian, or Go! airlines, then the ATA flight with Go! connector was one choice, the ATA flight with Aloha Connector was another choice, and the ATA flight with Hawaiian connector was another choice. Madness! I literally went through an entire page of flight choices without finding anything substantially different about any of the flights. Oh, and the prices were *the exact same* as the prices I found at Expedia. Ok, so forget Orbitz - too hard to read, on to Priceline.

Priceline operates like Expedia, giving you first a choice for departure, then a choice for return. ahhhh. Prices seemed practically the same, except Priceline kept telling me they weren't going to charge me a booking fee for the flights. That might have saved me $20 since I bought two tickets. However, I still think Expedia is easier to read and navigate. So I went back to Expedia and bought my tickets there. Easy.

From New Jersey or Philadelphia to Honolulu or Hilo

Ok, we are trying to book tickets for my sister-in-law and her daughter to come out and visit us for a little over two weeks. My husband prefers searching on Orbitz while I prefer Expedia.

She would prefer to leave from Atlantic City Airport (ACY) in New Jersey but past attempts have shown us that they likely do not have many flights that will connect to Hawaii. I searched just once, for completeness and found one Delta flight for $811. Not bad, but not what we want to pay.

So instead, all our searches will be done from Philadelphia Airport (PHL) in Pennsylvania

To Honolulu:

evening search on a friday in early february - lowest prices: American Airlines, 2 stops $572 - Continental 1 stop $654

Sunday evening search - lowest prices are American Airlines 1 stop for $569 and 2 stops for $572. Pretty good. Hmmm, maybe we should stop looking and start buying.

If I search straight through to Hilo, American Airlines is still giving me the best price at $654 with a connecting flight in Maui, not Honolulu. Interesting that the connecting price (interisland flight) is less than $100 - so they really can get good interisland prices when you book everything all at once.

A similar search on orbitz shows a price of $656 - $2 more.

From Austin, Texas to Honolulu, Oahu

I did some airfare searches on Expedia from Austin, TX (AUS) to Honolulu (HNL) Hawaii to continue determining trends and prices to the Hawaiian islands from the mainland. (Remember, a hop to one of the neighbor islands will cost about $140 roundtrip usually).

I found general average cheapest prices of:

April - between $577 and $780
May - $477 to $650
June - $620 to $800
July - $706 to $831
August - $637 - $829
September - $577 - $633
October - $627
November - $602 - $731
December - in the 500s early in the month, up to 800s near Christmas
January - $577
February $750

These seem a bit high for Texas, but so far are following typical yearly trends, although nothing is going up too high for summer travel yet.

US Airlines

• America West - US Airways These two airlines recently merged. America West was focused on the Western part of the country but now the low-fare airline has more than 200 world-wide destinations.
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• Air Tran All-Boeing, low-fare airline based on East Coast
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• American Airlines Large US carrier. Site has a lowest-fare guarantee.
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• ATA - Expanding to lots of vacation spots, especially Hawaii. First carrier to fly direct to Hilo. Midwest flights and hubs also.
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• Continental Airlines - Large carrier servicing the entire country. Site has a lowest-fare guarantee.
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• Delta - One of the country's largest airlines, flying the USA and around the world.
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• Frontier Airlines - mostly western cities



• NorthWest - Northwest services much of the world
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• Southwest - large but personal airline
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• United Airlines
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Airlines that Fly Direct to Hawaii from the U.S. Mainland

Who flies to Maui, Kauai, Lanai, Big Island Hawaii, Oahu, and Molokai:

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** You can fly on almost any airline and get anywhere in Hawaii as most airlines will use partners to get you where they don't fly. This list shows airlines that have direct flights to any Hawaiian Airport, usually meaning less stops and plane transfers.

America West - US Airways

Flies from Phoenix, Arizona to Kona on the Big Island, Kahului on Maui, Honolulu on Oahu, and Lihue on Kauai.
Flys from Las Vegas to Kahului

American Airlines

Flies to Kona on the Big Island, Maui, Oahu, and Kauai.

Continental Airlines

Flies to Honolulu and Maui.

Delta

Delta flies to Honolulu, Maui, and Kona on the Big Island

Hawaiian Airlines

Flies to Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, the Big Island, and Kauai.

NorthWest

Northwest flies to Kailua-Kona, Maui, and Oahu.

United Airlines
Flies into Honolulu, Oahu

Note - This list occasionally changes. An easy way to check what airlines fly directly into whatever island you are checking is to go to a fare checking site like expedia or cheapoair and search for your flight. An easy to read table and a list will pop up with available airlines into your desired city. I like cheapoair for cheap airline tickets


Note - Aloha Airlines and ATA airlines used to be on this list but both have gone bankrupt and stopped flying.


Hawaii Airport Codes

Oahu Island
Honolulu - HNL

Kauai
Lihue - LIH

Maui
Kahului - OGG
Kapalua - JHM (small, seldom-used airport for direct fly-ins)
Hana - HNM (small, seldom-used)

Big Island
Kona, Hawaii - KOA
Hilo Hawaii - ITO
Kamuela (Waimea) Hawaii - MUE (small, seldom-used)

Hoolehua, Molokai - MKK
Lanai City, Lanai - LNY