Flight Rates??

lyssalou89

Hey, girls!

When I was doing some pre-pre-planning 5 months ago I called Hawaiian Airlines and got a ballpark estimate of $300 roundtrip out of Oakland, CA to Maui for a summer month (July). Our tentative wedding date is July 11, 2012 in Maui. Today I called to do some more pre-planning to see how much tickets would be 330 days from now. Because our wedding is further away than the airline's 330-day window period, I couldn't check estimates for our actual date. Hawaiian gave me an estimate of $750. I'm guessing that it's higher because we're currently in the summer travel season and when I called before it was still the winter season...but I'm still a little worried that this $750 price will be too much for our wedding guests! Do you think prices will be lower if we make reservations this coming winter in say October or November? I know it's tough to say with 100% accuracy since oil prices could fluctuant wildly between now and then, but I sure would appreciate some feedback! Thank you so much! 

sparklegirl84

Flights from seattle are usually $500 or less, $750 sounds high! Im pretty sure you could find lower as it gets closer. It depends on what your guests can afford really.

maui2011

I would wait till next year when the airlines have seat sales...usually 3 to 6 months prior to departure. HTH! J. :-)

Tanq&Tonic

Hawaiian Airlines was regularly more than Alaska.  Most of our guests paid about $420 rountrip (after our wedding group discount) to fly SJC-OGG nonstop in March.  Hawaiian was consistently $500 or more during this time (including our wedding group discount) and actually none of our guests flew Hawaiian because of it. 

Hope that helps!

valka

Flying from lax to maui next jan, we got tix from american airlines for $430 pp about a month ago

FSForever

I would wait and try not to worry about it.  We are paying for 8 tickets Seattle to Maui and by October we will have enough if each ticket is under $500.  I will then watch like a hawk for the sales.  I don't have enough right now so no need to worry about it.  I think you are right because it is summer and we can't book that far in advance the numbers are high.  I have seen them as low as $300 rt.

dcole01

I have a friend who works in pricing for one of the major airlines and I asked him when the best time was to buy my ticket when I went to Oahu in March from Texas and he said that typically, don't buy more than 3 months in advanced because earlier than that, prices arent competitive enough. We bought ours the 1st week in March for $588 RT. After that though, I didnt see many at that rate.