keishashadow
Proud Redhead...yes, I have some bananas!
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2004
Okay good places to check for a stop over is San Francisco, lax, Las Vegas, Seattle, and I’ll come back if I think of more. I’d say best day to book a flight is likely on a Tuesday. I’ve seen flights out of Dallas as low as 320 but with a layover. It’s kind of a hobby of mine to watch flight prices. I use google flights.
My goal is to fly out of one of the four previously announced SWA gateway cities in CA. Need to break up flight to two legs, 12 hours plus is just too much for me. Even then few direct flights from PIT to those four cities (SAN, OAK, SJC & SAC)
Flights to HNL out of vegas tend to be consistently a few hundred $ pp/leg more for dates i’ve Checked. Had hoped to stop somewhere easy to have a fun night before picking up flight to HNL next day. Was contemplating a short flight next day to one of the four announced SWA HNL gateway cities.
Doing a day or two @ DL also an option in the back of my mind on the way out but would require a short flight to one of the four gateway cities. Not about to drive to SAN in CA traffic but perhaps limo service might work
Just too many options to boggle my mind
I'm still waiting for Southwest to start flying to Hawaii our trip is in Sept..
I need end of April, have been following the drama since summer. Promises, promises; one delay after another. Nerve-wracking for an uber-disney planned to have HNL hotels & cruise bought & paid but no way to get there. A long walk from PIT haha.
Rumored updates:
*First flight test from Oakland was completed mid Dec
*FAA has approved Southwest’s ETOPS plans and procedures, company has entered the final approval phase.
*Ground crew is scheduled to report to work @ HNL mid January
*LAX May join the original four cities soon, followed by LAS
Confirmed:
*In early December SWA Exec. VP Greg Wells stated: ETOPS is close but that the start date for Hawaii flights is the wildcard. They were still waiting approval of flight manuals, when exercises and proving flights across the Pacific would start.
*Earlier SWA stated that the time between the announcement & their start of service would be ‘short’...thought to translate into a few weeks