Two differentairlines have discontinued operations between Hawaii and the US mainland this week. I'm planning a trip to visit my family in Idaho in early June and am trying to find a decent fare between Maui (OGG) and Salt Lake City.
While searching for a flight to Las Vegas (where I can connect fairly cheaply to SLC), I was shown a non-stop flight from OGG to SLC, then connecting to Vegas for ~$575. When I did a search just for the direct flight to SLC, the fare was $650.
I'm tempted to buy the ticket to Vegas and just not make the connection. I'm sure I can convince the folks here to just check my luggage as far as SLC, but my concern is that I might lose my return flight if I don't show up for the Vegas return flight.
Anyone have any experience with this? Should I just tough it out and pay the extra $150 (my daughter is traveling with me)? Or can I safely use only part of a round trip itinerary like this?
[ April 04, 2008, 09:46 PM: Message edited by: maui babe ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
See if you can book it as two one-way trips for the same cost.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
quote:I'm tempted to buy the ticket to Vegas and just not make the connection.
In Europe, you would lose the return flight (as a friend painfully found out recently). I have no idea about the US though.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
quote:Originally posted by maui babe: Two differentairlines have discontinued operations between Hawaii and the US mainland this week.
Hooray for go! airlines and their $9 fares. Aloha had their own problems, don't get me wrong, but there was some seriously unfair competition going on there.
As far as your question, I'd recommend just calling whichever agency you were looking at.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I can't say I haven't been taking advantage of the fare war go! initiated, although I haven't actually flown on go!. We all knew it was just a matter of time until something broke though, and Aloha certainly had issues of their own. It really made no sense that fuel prices were climbing through the roof and interisland fares kept getting lower.
I decided to pay the extra money for the peace of mind that I'll have return flights. I am kind of annoyed that I have to pay more to fly less, but what can you do?
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
Here in the islands, we really pay a lot of attention to this kind of news. Our economy is so dependent on air travel for tourism, not to mention much of our perishable food. This is getting really frightening.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think my mom just flew to Ohio on Skybus from Burbank... Yikes. If she'd taken that trip to see my sister a couple of months later she could have been stranded.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Some airlines honor the tickets from airlines that go under. (Why wouldn't you? It's brilliant PR that just falls into your lap.)
If the new airline charges you a fee or you can't get the ticket honored elsewhere, Visa for sure offers chargeback rights. You can get back the entire ticket if you didn't get to use it, part of a ticket you didn't get to use, or fees from transferring it. Most of the credit cards probably offer similar deals.
So as long as you've got some room on your credit card, there's no reason not to buy a new ticket and do what you need to do. You're not going to have to pay for the old one.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Here in the islands, we really pay a lot of attention to this kind of news. Our economy is so dependent on air travel for tourism, not to mention much of our perishable food. This is getting really frightening.
Eeek. I never thought of that. That really is scary.
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