Where to find the cheapest flights to hawaii
How to Get A Cheap Ticket to Hawaii in 5 Steps
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welcome to Hawaii well you're not here
yet but you're looking to book the
cheapest ticket to Hawaii I got to Maui
of a $474 first-class Alaskan airline
tickets by following these five steps to
book my flight hi I'm Jordan from the
wide vacation guide and these are my
five steps booked the cheapest ticket to
fly so you can come join me here in Maui
or whatever Hawaiian island you want to
go to before I get started I'm finding
the cheapest flight to Hawaii let me go
over some baseline information for you
about the Hawaiian market because it is
always changing so first of all budget
carriers there's three low cost carriers
that come to Hawaii right now they're
Alaska Airlines Southwest in Hawaiian
Airlines they're all really good
carriers so I hate calling a budget
Erica have flown all of them and really
liked them I'm Hawaiian even gave a
glass of POC it's really nice and who I
need to be the only ones or are the only
ones who serve you a meal and economy
for free so those are the cheap airlines
the big airlines are United Airlines and
Delta but they're a great airline but
they also can be a little higher in cost
you will see that they're starting to
slash prices stay competitive so why are
they slashing prices well because the
thing called the Southwest effect this
has been great for us Maui locals in
Hawaiian vocals and also good for people
like you come in I heard of Y so
Southwest has entered the Hawaiian
market because they're 737s were
grounded about thirty four of them so
they came over here to Hawaii and they
had been causing all sorts of trouble
for the competition like last year in
2019
they offered $99 flash sales this mean
national news ninety nine dollars to go
to Hawaii and they still continue to be
cheap today Hawaiian Airlines in Alaskan
have also cover eights to compete with
them like last year in November Alaskan
airlines are offering $77 flights $77 to
come out to Hawaii it's been great
alright so now knowing the carrier's
these are the main people were going to
look at the other tip for you is to be
flexible that's really important right I
know you can't say your
but if you can't the ability to wiggle
your date's around a few days or even a
few weeks is gonna set you up to save a
lot of money on your ticket the last
thing is how I like to call the misery
index kind of stole that from Hipmunk
but they were not business in January so
the misery index is be ready to have
some long layover x' or have multiple
connections to get out here especially
if you're coming from the east coast and
you can save some real money on the
return home because a lot of flights do
red-eyes is if you do a long layover on
the way home you can save some serious
money so be flexible and be ready to
have a little misery on your flight to
save some extra money and find the
cheapest ticket to why so with that
let's jump into the five steps to help
you find the cheapest ticket here we go
okay as we jump into five steps let's
try to find a baseline right a baseline
ticket that we should expect to pay for
a flight out to why so I I'm gonna look
up United Airlines but to be fair step
number one to find the cheapest ticket
Hawaii is to go into it kognito mode on
your browser so to go to incognito mode
you have to hold down command shift and
when you're using Safari or Chrome
so that's or control shift and if you're
on a PC if you're doing Mozilla Firefox
or Explorer you can do ctrl shift key or
command shift P so doing command shift
and you can see I am now in private
browsing enabled Safari and just for an
example going over to Chrome if I do
command shift and again I go into
incognito mode which is a whole another
window so what's so great about
incognito mode is that resets all your
cookies the cookies are the way the
airline's track you so you're not being
paranoid the airline is actually
increasing the ticket price every time
you keep looking so if you're looking
for tickets over a period of hours days
or weeks the airline is knowing that
you're looking they know they're getting
close to booking so they're gonna
continue to increase that so that's why
step number one is going to incognito
mode in your browser so onto Safari
we're gonna look United Airlines is our
example for our baseline ticket price
and we're going to be looking at dates
of April 18th
26 so for example just leaving from a
West Coast City San Francisco and
heading over to Honolulu
that's gonna be April 18th and then
going until the 26 sick and I economy
you can use this you steps also for
finding a first-class ticket to so
restriction for flight saying United the
more we're finding United is a round
trip for 378 that's really not too bad
right I like 378 that's pretty good deal
for round trip so I need me give you the
recommended Airlines for so without
selecting all of them I'm just gonna
leave that United all right so step
number two while we're still incognito
mode is looking at flight search engines
this is how you really good idea of what
the cheapest airlines are out there so
my favorite is sky scanner sky scanner
is great because looks at a lot of the
airlines but it also puts flights
together different airlines together to
find the cheapest routes so once again
we're gonna go Honolulu San Francisco
Honolulu departing on April 18th and
then come back on the 26 this will keep
it consistent still looking at economy
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so we fine right here on Skyscanner
the price has come down a lot from 378
so Skyscanner has brought up Alaskan
airlines in Hawaiian the United still in
the mix right but Laskin is showing 349
dollars this is great right so we just
knocked off 30 dollars from the price
not bad what I like is Skyscanner is
showing two separate airlines with
different segments to try give you the
lowest price possible which is really
nice all right
so if you notice Southwest doesn't come
up here or hey kind of surprising I love
it that they're advertising up here at
the top corner yes so Southwest doesn't
put their flights on the search engine
so no big deal we just go ahead over to
Southwest to see what they have when
we're coming to Hawaii so once again
we're gonna punch in heading from
San Francisco San Francisco to Honolulu
and heading out once again on April 18th
and then come back on the 26th all right
so let's see what Southwest has for us
Southwest usually has the best deals to
compare the other airlines especially
Alaska and Hawaii ah
so no flights available so that's one of
the problems with Southwest is they
don't fly all the time out of the major
airports which brings me on to my next
one right is step number three is fly
from the cheapest city this is what's so
nice is being have the flexibility to
look at cheapest cities in your
surrounding area and these regional
airports is where a lot of these cheaper
carriers fly out of we just look at the
bay area south of us flies off San
Francisco San Jose Oakland and even up
from up to Sacramento which is a little
bit of a drive but hey it's okay so you
don't always have this luxury based on
where you live but give this a shot to
see what works best for you
so to do that on Skyscanner we go back
to our search and we just click the box
and nearby airports right super simple
see what comes up on that one so by
looking at nearby airports on Skyscanner
let's see we see if we can beat 349 and
it looks like we can write so Alaskan is
no longer the cheapest if we fly out of
Auckland we get a ticket down to 319 so
319 compare
$378 with United Airlines right and
we're flying
only on Hawaiian which makes it a little
simpler Alaskan Sully mix also at 3:19
so you know you have the choice of what
your line you want to go with so once
again Southwest is a non Skyscanner so
we'll hop back to Southwest and let's
see what they have for Oakland because
Oakland popped up as a cheapest place to
fly out
so looking at Southwest out of Oakland
flights are a lot cheaper they come down
and really the nonstop once so this is
the misery index the cheapest one isn't
too bad because a lot of these budget
carries have so many flights so Hawaii a
day that it's not it's not that bad
right you're not gonna get some crazy
schedules coming out so Southwest is 327
so that's 327 for Southwest compared to
319 for Hawaiian and Alaskan airlines so
in this example of April 18 to 26
it looks like Hawaiian Airlines in
Alaskan airlines one so I don't book out
of Skyscanner or other websites because
they usually have a little fat in there
in the price so I go directly to the
website to book my ticket and usually
you can save a few bucks so I did this
before with wine Airlines and I was able
to save a dollar so not big in this
example but hey also booking directly
with the airline helps you with your
reservation if you have problems it's
best not that have booked your ticket
through a third-party site like
Skyscanner or Expedia or Google flights
with you so we got down to let's just
say 319 with Hawaiian Airlines but we're
not done on our steps yet right I talked
about being flexible with your vacation
if you have the ability to move your
dates around that is great so if we go
back to Southwest at Southwest has this
great feature called the low fare
calendar and this is a great place to
look at dates when you're starting to
plan your trip so right here you can put
in your cities that you want let me just
put it in Oakland here on it but then
click the box too low for your calendar
or up here on the flight menu flight
option on the menu you can check low
fare calendar and this gives you a
visual bind off of ticket prices so once
again we'll just look at how to Oakland
to Honolulu and let's just start looking
at March for it so low fare counter is
great right you can actually look by
date to see what's the cheapest options
out there especially we have that
flexibility so flexibility this brings
me to step number five book when
airlines offer the cheapest ticket right
Kavanaugh brainer but I see this
three major parts three parts of booking
the cheapest ticket number one day of
the week you depart number two time of
year that you go and then number three
is actually physically when you booked
your ticket how far in advance right so
let's look at part number one is Dave
the week to the park so looking at
Southwest slow for your calendar and the
day of the week to the part so if we
just changed our days for April so the
18th we go on the 20th and then come
back in like the 29th so it's the park
and come back on the 29th
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so now the flights come down quite a bit
right so by booking on the cheapest time
of time to fly we're down to 277 right
so now we're at 277 compared to 378 for
United
so that's $100 savings on one ticket
that's pretty good I like that right
there
so part number two I'm booking the
cheapest ticket is booking during that
they're going to Hawaii during the
cheapest time of year so Hawaii the
weather here is perfect all the time
right but we still have our low seasons
we call them the shoulder seasons the
shoulder season is in spring time from
mid April to early June and then also
again in the fall from September to
November excluding Thanksgiving right
times you want to avoid is Christmas in
New Year's and then also the summer high
season but those low seasons you can
find some really good deals on tickets
and then also January in February is
also a great time to come to why so
those are the cheapest times to actually
come visit why so the second part of
booking the airlines when they offer the
cheapest flights is in looking at the
time of year to go alright so back to
the low for your calendar for self West
we still have Auckland we saw Honolulu
in there but let's play around with the
time of year to figure out if we can get
some good deals so if we look at March
you see a lot of 139th but still mostly
164 is in 219 up to 259 so what I like
to do is this check out Southwest for
each a month to see where the cheapest
one is so I like this at the end of
April cuz now you're coming down to the
139 range and then leading it to May
you're mostly on 139 144 which makes
sense because you're in the spring
shoulder season Hawaii where demands the
lowest it's a great time to come to
Hawaii as you get into June you can
already see a May there the price we're
increasing and that's what you see in
June right you're up to 184 now is your
cheapest option going into the summer
months you're into the $200 range now
for tickets so it gets up there in price
so a Southwest only lets you booked six
months in advance so if you want to look
out farther you have to look at the
other airline's
so let's go back to Skyscanner so back
here in Skyscanner we set up Oakland to
Honolulu with our specific dates let's
try changing up the dates you open up
the specific date area and then you
click and spend instead of a specific
date you click the whole month then I
love this feature you look at the
cheapest month and then let's search
flights there so this looking at the
whole year figure out the cheapest
months off and fly and what comes up
December so it's looking like for 2020
so far December's your cheapest time to
fly so you look at here you get two
flights outta 166
even this 135 right here and then you
can come back in a little less than a
week for a 134 ticket right there so
that's two hundred sixty-nine dollars
compared to two hundred seventy eight
dollars that United had for us so of
course is having the ability to change
up your dates and being flexible but
also just points out is when you want
booked your ticket and that's part three
of finding the cheapest one is booking
well in advance of your trip you're
going to set yourself up for again the
cheapest ticket by booking at least what
we like to say is four months out you
get the best deals also it's nice you
can sign up for these newsletters then
they come that the airlines have and
this is how you find their flash sales
so Southwest the click and safe
newsletter wine Airlines newsletter you
can even sign up for Skyscanner price
alerts I love the price alert because I
actually look at your itinerary and then
track it over time and they email you
when the flights going down and that's
what we always want right is try to get
the cheapest flight to make sure that
the guy instead Nix you probably paid
more for a sticker than you do so that's
our five steps we started off with
United Airlines at three hundred seventy
eight dollars and we got it down to
three hundred nineteen dollars by
keeping our same dates but by being
flexible with their time we got down to
two hundred sixty nine dollars for it so
$100 savings for about ten minutes of
work following these five steps that's a
pretty good deal I'll take that any time
now well Hawaii flights get cheaper in
2020 and beyond we think they will
because Southwest is continuing to
expand to the Hawaii market so you
continue to see the other
here's offer some really good deals so
as the year goes on like we saw on this
thing October November are the cheapest
I bet those flights will continue to
come down so hopefully we see you out
here in Hawaii in the late part of 2020
because you'll get some good deals on
flights to get all these steps written
down for you might be a little easier to
understand head to the Hawaii vacation
guy comm slash cheap flights
that's the Hawaii vacation guide comm
slash cheap flights and you'll see our
full article on all of our five steps
plus some additional tips on booking the
cheapest ticket to Hawaii and even we
share the cheapest month to fly to Maui
so take a look and we'll see you next
time thanks so much
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