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Starting in January of 2011 Hawaiian Airlines will offer flights to Seoul’s Incheon International Airport. Hawaii’s largest airline since its establishment in 1929 will continue even further in their efforts to serve more and more destinations in the Pacific region.

While Hawaiian already specializes in bringing visitors to and from the islands from the mainland, it also serves travelers looking to travel to other South Pacific destinations. While already offering flights to Tahiti, American Samoa, and Sydney, Australia, the Seoul route will help to further expand its international flight service. It also offers a strategic route to the many travelers going to and from Southeast Asia’ Philippine’s Islands.

This new route is also a great step toward opening up more planned service to other South Pacific destinations.

Hawaiian will not use the new incoming Airbus’s on the route at first, but will integrate them in as time goes by. Instead it will employ the 264-seater Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. Hawaiian plans on running the flight 4-times per week, which will add more than 54,000 new air seats annually between Honolulu and Seoul.

Incheon International Airport is a major hub for international travel and is acknowledged as one of the largest air traffic hubs in Asia. It is also recognized by the Airports Council International as the Best Airport Worldwide for five consecutive years.

For those of you inter-island travelers, you probably kept tabs on the merger between Go! and Mokulele Airlines. And you’ve probably wondered if it was going to mean higher fares for your weekend trips to the outer islands or back to Oahu. Well, it looks like for now, Go! Airlines is sticking by their $39 one-way tickets by offering the cheapest flights to the island of Lanai we’ve seen in a while.

It looks like the newly merged airline will offer ticket prices between Honolulu and Lana’i for $39 if you travel between May 20th and August 31st. The only blackout dates are Fridays, so if you’re going for the weekend, you gotta start earlier it looks like. Nice! Aloha Thursdays. Tickets must be purchased by April 16th.

The airline will be offering two flights daily roundtrip from Honolulu to Lanai. A great boost for those that thought the added ticket price, to the already pricey stay at the Four Seasons Hotels on Lanai was just too much.

Hawaii residents delight: The trade winds are blowing in low fares! United Airlines is offering some unbeatable travel deals to the mainland, but you only have November 15 to purchase your tickets!

Here are the details:

• A 7-day advance purchase is required.
• Eastbound travel must occur between December 7, 2009 and December 26, 2009.
• Westbound travel must occur between December 28, 2009 and January 14, 2010.
• Travel is valid Monday through Thursday.
• Fares for travel on other days of the week will be higher.
• A 3-night, Friday night or Saturday night minimum stay is required and a 60-day maximum stay is permitted.
• Additional checked baggage fees may apply. See U.S./Canada baggage information for details.

Fares do not include a $3.60 per flight segment tax. A flight segment is defined as one takeoff and one landing. Fares do not include the September 11th Security Fee of $2.50 per enplanement at a U.S. airport or Passenger Facility Charges of up to $18, which may be collected depending on the itinerary. Fares for Hawaii and Alaska do not include an $8 (each way) departure tax.

Visit United Airlines’s website to book your ticket now!

I never thought I’d see the day where interisland travel was affordable again.  Hawaiian Airlines, Go! Airlines, and newest airline Mokulele are offering web only fares starting at $27 (Mokulele is offering $28) one way fares between Honolulu, Kona, Kahului, and Lihue.

To get this fare you must book your travel from now to February 28 and travel between February 1st thru 28th.  Fare rates are based on availability and some restrictions may apply, so check the airlines details via their websites… Hawaiian airlines: www.hawaiianair.com , Go! Airlines: www.iflygo.com , and Mokulele Airlines: www.mokuleleairlines.com.

When Go! Airlines came in they were offering cheap flights all the time. $29 and $39 fares to all the Hawaiian islands. It was finally cheap to get out of town for a weekend and explore.

But with rising gas prices and lawsuits all the Hawaii based airlines began to raise their prices. Soon we were back paying over $150 to take the 20 minute flight from Honolulu to Maui. Prices have even been observed over $200 depending on when you fly.

However, we may finally be seeing prices come back to the price wars that showed Hawaii $2 ticket prices. The price for a gallon of gas is coming down, consumer prices are dropping everywhere and Go! Airlines is finally giving us one-way tickets at less than $30 again.

That’s right, you can get a ticket from Honolulu to Maui, Honolulu to Kauai, or Honolulu to The Big Island for $27. Of course you have to fly at select times, and the prices are only valid for Tags: Air Travel, Airfare, go! Airlines, Plane Tickets
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