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  • strickers 933 posts

    @zapato1060 It depends on the carrier as far as I know? The BA website said no baggage included when I booked.

    NorthernLass 9,483 posts

    @zapato1060 – most US carriers don’t include baggage economy, including award bookings. This is another area where OW status can be helpful as you get one free checked bag for Bronze/Ruby and two for Silver/Sapphire on OW airlines.

    LindyLoo 39 posts

    Just booked Kahului (OGG) to San Diego (SAN) on Alaska Air using Avios. 16000 & £4.40 each in economy.

    OK I take this on board… flying to West Coast on the Wednesday, fly to Hawaii the Thursday ship doesn’t sail ‘til Saturday night so that will give me wriggle room, and like you say, flying back, no big deal…
    Ooops sorry wrong reply…

    LindyLoo 39 posts

    Thank you so much tiriavpo, as you advised, I will be staying in San Diego and taking a flight the next day to Honolulu, probably with Alaska Airlines, there is only one flight daily and it will have left well before we are due to land. It is quite a wee mini adventure for us and at our age, will be the last long journey we will take.

    A Pleasure. My comment about separate tickets is that you need to build in redundancy. If you are connecting somewhere where there is only one flight per day (in or out) and your first flight is cancelled, or excessively delayed, or goes tech (etc) and you end up missing your onward flight, even if it is the next day, you have no come back. You will lose the onward flight and, by implication, the return leg from HNL as well. And, potentially, the cruise.

    I might be inclined to build in more than one night outbound at the staging base – especially if you are aiming to make the start of a cruise – and you clearly can’t afford to miss the sailing time. Equally, and depending on your appetite for risk, you could build in a night in HNL before the ships sails. I tend to build in a bit of fat outbound but am prepared to be a bit more blasé on the return.

    I has assumed from your original comment that San Diego was a specific requirement. If it is just somewhere to use the 241, and to stopover before the HNL leg, then be ready to book to wherever there is availability when the flights go on sale. Obviously research the options for suitable places to connect to HNL and remember that you don’t have to stopover in the same place each way – eg you could fly out to SAN (or wherever there is availability) and back through LAX (or vice versa etc). A single 241 can be used for a ticket going out to one place and returning from another. Research all of the options so that you are ready at the 355 days-to-go point when you should be a coiled spring ready to book.

    OK I take this on board… flying to West Coast on the Wednesday, fly to Hawaii the Thursday ship doesn’t sail ‘til Saturday night so that will give me wriggle room, and like you say, flying back, no big deal…

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