posted 03-29-2005 19:55               

Should I wait?

thanks, brad

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posted 05-25-2005 15:04               

Unfortunately no sale to the Big Island and I just bit the $761.50 bullet for each of two RT's Orange County to Big Island direct....not worth it to me to go at inconvenient times and via HNL or through LAX....especially with two young kids....oh well its only money. Fortunately we had a two for one cert for another two tickets via Aloha's credit card which averaged under $600 for each. If it was four of us at the full price then we would do LAX which had summer fares same time for $608 on ATA.

I guess people are traveling pretty heavy this year....our return flight mid August was almost completely full...maybe five seats left after our booking.

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posted 06-01-2005 09:46               

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posted 06-02-2005 12:26               

Depart July 24 - Return August 14

Total Cost per ticket $516.74 taxes and fees included.

That is close to what Pleasant Holidays was offering on a special in May for summer travel to Kona. I think ATA is a good deal for this time of year. Especially considering our tickets on Aloha out of Orange County same dates averaged $671.24 and that is with a 2 for 1 certificate that I used. The regular airfare was 761.65 and I would have not booked it if it were not for the certificate. We did book two at that price so we could all travel together. I could have saved $617.99 total for our family of four....that is a lot of scratch for the convenience of one day (we are actually returning on Aug 13th and ATA did not have a flight but we could have extended an extra night), FF miles, and using Orange County instead of LAX.

If we would have paid the regular fare for four of us out of OC on Aloha it would have been a total of $3046.6 vs. $2,066.96 on ATA and the saving of $979.64. This we would have done for sure if not for the certificate on Aloha and the worry over fares even going higher. We are recommending to our friends who are going to book ATA out of LAX.

posted 06-03-2005 14:49               

I just purchased a Hawaiian Air ticket from LAX to OGG for ~$585. We go yearly and this year is the highest fares we've seen from the West Coast in a long time.