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When Is Cheapest Time To Fly To Hawaii?
I am planning a trip to Hawaii, and have been researching and trying to determine the best time to buy Hawaii flights in order to get the most affordable travel options.
The plan right now is to fly to Honolulu, Hawaii for a wedding mid April 2024.
When is the best time to buy flights to Hawaii?
I’m in Columbus, Ohio (CMH) and have been looking for about a month and the cheapest flight to Hawaii I found was around $600, but now it’s closer to $700.
I have Chase Ultimate Rewards points but it seems like paying is better than using points.
Never been to the island so just trying to get the best deal to Hawaii!
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10 Replies
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Flights to anywhere in Hawaii from SAN or LAX are always ridiculously cheap.
Save your points, book a positioning flight to California, spend a night there and fly there on the cheap on cash.
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If it is a Chase Sapphire card you can transfer points to Southwest partnership 1:1.
Another option is to get a new Hawaiian Airlines credit card.
They give you enough points to get 2 r/t tickets from Oakland/SF.
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Just checked for you using Southwest and it is $680.
But you can buy Southwest Giftcards for 10% off (sometimes even lower during sales) on Costco.com.
I just saw Costco is selling a $500 Southwest gift card for $429.
That gets you to $610.
Book your tickets and then wait for a Southwest sale (since you can rebook at the lower price for free).
You can do it online, and it will tell you if the prices has dropped.
You can cancel flights for full credit till 10 min before the plane departs.
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I booked flights with Alaska Airlines and American Airlines (two one-ways) for 20,000 points each leg from Denver to Oahu.
I only paid $12 total in fees.
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If you already know the dates you’d need to be there, I’d get flights as soon as possible.
I don’t know what airport you’re flying out of or into, but just running some sample searches from my home airport LAX for the month of April on Virgin for Delta flights, British Airways for American and Alaska, and Aeroplan and Avianca for United.
There seems to be good economy award availability to OGG (Maui) and less (but present) award availability to HNL (Oahu) for 12.5k-15k each way, which would be ~2cpp or greater return for cash prices around $600-$700.
Anyway, from your airports and dates, see what’s available on those partners I just listed.
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With tickets around $600-$700, it’s probably not the best value to use points unless there is a really good deal.
I’d probably recommend booking on Southwest or breaking up the trip and hopping to a west coast hub and take a cheap flight to HNL.
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I would suggest buying now.
If you don’t purchase basic economy tix, most airlines will allow for you to rebook at the lower fare with no fee, and give you a travel credit for the difference.
Of course this plan is only good if you will be able to use the flight credit within 12 months of the original purchase.
Definitely check with your airline of choice and confirm their cancellation policy, but I know this is the case with AA and a few others.
Good luck and have fun
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Sooner the better.
Doesn’t usually get much cheaper unless oil/gas drop.
Probably not going to happen with the wars going on.
Most airlines have refundable tickets, so if price drops, can rebook for free.
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Might make sense to look for flights from bigger airports too like Cinncinati (CVG), which probably is cheaper.
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Check Google Flights and it will show you the cheapest flight options.
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