USA internal flights

[mike4scuba]

Looking at Hawaii next year and some of the west coast

We can get a multi trip with virgin
Lon to honolul stopping at Seattle for 14 hours
On way back San Francisco to London direct

Would need to pay separate for a flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles which carrier would you use and are cases included

[MrsFizz]

Just returned from Hawaii yesterday. We flew American Airlines and had to pay extra for cases. They were $30 each. Think most of the airlines are similar we booked based on price only.

[cornishfrogboy]

I have researched this at length.

Option 1.
A typical London- Hawaii, staging through any of SFO, LA, Vancouver, Seattle and back… around £1600pp return.

Option 2.
London -SFO and maybe LA- London on one ticket £500 Ono.

After maybe a couple of days in SFO, SFO-Honolulu returning Honolulu to LA with a couple of days in LA before flying back to the U.K.. £370 or so.

Total £870.


Suggestion..
Look at a variant of option 2.

[mike4scuba]

We can get lhr to Honolulu economic out and sfo to London premium return for 62500 miles and £450 each which seems good

Due to dates and reward miles these are the only options open at present for sept 22

Therefore a honulu to lax flight needed.

Want to drive lax to sfo and have a week on Hawaii and a week on West coast

[jdouds]

Sounds great the coast is fantastic, Santa Barbara,San Simeon for elephant seals, Monterey etc

[KarenG]

We’ve done it a few different ways.

The best price I had was about £850 (can’t remember exact price) from Heathrow to Oahu (Honolulu) economy and Maui (OGG) to Heathrow Premium Economy / Delta’s version of PE.

We also used a combination of points to fly Upper from Heathrow to Seattle and economy return to LAX which IIRC was £500 each and a lot of points, prices are higher for upper now. We bought flights from Seattle to Oahu and Maui to LAX separately for about £300 return - I could have done better if I’d planned earlier but it was a bit last minute! We used Hawaiian and if you sign up for their club (free) checked luggage is half price at $15/case.

Prices for accommodation have gone up a lot since COVID so check that out too.

My experience is all pre COVID so may not hold.

I would not pay more than £800 or so return (economy) personally.

[Claudette]

I have researched the route you want (LAX to Honolulu) a few times in the past. We will do it one day and I think we may go in Hawaiian Airways as we would probably want to do a bit of island hopping and so seems easiest way.

But other than that, I would not be fussy over which US domestic airline, I would go with the cheapest and most suitable flight time.

[mike4scuba]

Thanks all