United and Continental published a round of super cheap fares mostly originating from Newark and into Honolulu last night for travel starting this fall into early next year.
I’m pulling up prices under 300$ total for multiple itineraries on Travelocity. Most weekends and holidays are blocked out, but if you’re going to Hawaii you’re going to want to take a couple of extra days off anyway, aren’t you?
To find the fare, go to Travelocity.com and plug in EWR or LAX and HNL or LIH for your departure and arrival airports. Then select “flexible dates” and select May – December.
The search engine will return a variety of prices and availabilities therein; you can try the lowest fare to find dates that might work, or if availability is too tight try something more expensive.
It helps to consider the flex search as more of a general than a precise tool. If you find ballpark dates that might work for you, scoot over to Kayak or Mobissimo to do another search and do your booking — that way you don’t have to deal with going back and forth between cheapest fares and dates, making yourself all frustrated and cursing my name.
Availability for the cheapest fares from Los Angeles are harder to come by, but are there. Try tinkering around with the lowest few fares in the Travelocity search to find dates that work for you or if necessary, turn off the flex search option and just do +/- 3 day searches to work around your schedule; the first few searches I tried failed, but I ended up eventually finding midweek travel in September for 344$ total.
No telling how long this secret sale will work, so book soon and ask questions later.
Aloha!