Very good Hawaii business class fares are back – with huge BA tier point potential

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• Paul says:

  8 Aug8 August 12:39

  When searching on AA< I cant seem to find anything that doesnt go to LAX.
  Would love to do the HNL bit from DFW so I get the lay flat bed.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    8 Aug8 August 13:51

    Are you seeing all the options? They usually go upto 40.

    They usually only show 10 so you need to scroll down and then click “more” (or similar working)

• Richard Peters says:

  8 Aug8 August 12:46

  Interesting find but 33 hours! Think I’d sooner do 241 to PHX, chill there for a few days then on to Hawaii

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    8 Aug8 August 13:04

    You could always try to price it up with stopovers.

    • Richard Peters says:

      8 Aug8 August 13:42

      Will have a look as Hawaii is on our list for 2024: I’m not as young as I used to be when I’d have happily done 32 hours in economy but now even with business that’s a tough ask 🙂

      • BJ says:

        8 Aug8 August 15:57

        Especially when it’s possinle one-stop from most major UK airports. Unless you have a really strong desire to visit Hawaii I’d ditch it for some other more interesting place.

        • Colin MacKinnon says:

          8 Aug8 August 18:41

          Hawaii was interesting – but really just an American Canary Islands!

          (and I have been to La Gomera and El Hierro in the Canaries and Lanai in Hawaii – so not just comparing the glitz and glamour of resorts!)

          Oh, and very very expensive. The only place where I have not bought something in a restaurant because of the price. (It was a small beer at 17 bucks, 10 years ago).

        • Anna says:

          8 Aug8 August 20:19

          @Colin, I am so glad someone else thinks this! (Though the Canaries are massively cheaper to visit). I get weary of trying to explain to folk that there is so much more to them than Playa de las Americas and Costa Teguise.

• Peter says:

  8 Aug8 August 13:12

  Leaving for one of these runs in 3 weeks booked in January GOT-LHR-JFK-LAX-HNL and back 920 TPs found the routing on ITA Matrix booked with AA with Atlantic legs on BA cost around 2300 USD

  • Toilet Paper Man says:

    8 Aug8 August 14:28

    Question, how do you find someone willing to ticket/book an itinerary from ITA Matrix ??

    I’ve found some incredible deals with weird stop overs by playing around on there… but obviously trying to find the same thing on skyscanner/google flights is a no-go.

    • pauldb says:

      8 Aug8 August 14:57

      Expedia stretched to a 16 flight multi city before I gave up clicking “add another”.

      • @mkcol says:

        8 Aug8 August 17:12

        I thought 16 sectors was the maximum that could be booked.

    • Mike says:

      8 Aug8 August 16:48

      Not sure they are still around
      They were involved in a BA ticketing scandal few years back werent they?
      The name sounds familiar.

      • Rob says:

        8 Aug8 August 16:56

        Still there I believe.

        The ‘scandal’ was that Daniel was ticketing fares for FTers and people were skipping the last leg. This was an open goal to BA who went after the agent (as they are legally entitled to do) for the fare difference which was huge.

        You now have to sign a contract allowing Daniel to come after you if you skip a leg and he is surcharged, IIRC.

    • Mike says:

      8 Aug8 August 17:02

      Ok fair enough
      Anyway, good i raised the point then, cause i would imagine a large percentage of people booking these fares will be finishing in london rather than bothering to go back to amsterdam etc.
      So buyer be warned.

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

        8 Aug8 August 17:13

        You can always book these fares but actually booking to end the trip in the UK.

        It might not be as cheap as ending in e,g, AMS but will still be cheaper than a London start / finish.

        Plus if your doing a tier point run then why wouldn’t you do the last leg and (separate) return?

• Robert Brooks says:

  8 Aug8 August 13:20

  I have been looking at going to Puerto Rico recently in June next year and flights were almost £3,000 in business. Now, they’re almost half that. Thanks so much for the information!

• Marcin says:

  8 Aug8 August 13:49

  What would happen if one of the connection is missed and I’m re-routed on more direct route? Would i still be able to request original routing tier points credit even if the ticekts is booked with AA (rather than BA)?

  • Gin and Tonic Please says:

    8 Aug8 August 13:57

    Yes. I’ve done this a couple of times. There’s a good thread on FlyerTalk that explains how, and even gives an email template to use (which I did).

• His Holyness says:

  8 Aug8 August 14:07

  Think of all the fish cakes and Bourbon biscuits you can enjoy in Galleries First when you make Gold…positively salivating 😋.

  • Track says:

    9 Aug9 August 02:18

    Fishcakes are particularly dry, one needs a lot of saliva!

• GordyUK says:

  8 Aug8 August 14:17

  How can you price this up on Google flights? There is a max number of legs you can enter so out of fields. Same with AA.com. I tried a straight AMS-HNL but it brought up much shorter routes (3, not 4)

• Paul says:

  8 Aug8 August 15:03

  all booked, does this type of ticket allow changes, I woudlnt mind adding on a couple of days in LA.

  • SamG says:

    8 Aug8 August 17:02

    AA will almost certainly have multiple schedule changes which will give you some flexibility to optimise. though probably not to add stopovers but you can try asking

  • Andy says:

    9 Aug9 August 08:03

    Would you not check the fare conditions before booking? Agree with the below though – AA likely to make several frustrating schedule changes before departure. Good luck!

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