Finding the right Airfare

[Meemoo]

Hello everyone,

I've been quiet of late but I still pop in to read all your posts! Now, I need some advice from all you bargain airfare experts We have 2 scenarios planned for next years trip, which we will be leaving around mid-October. We are thinking to #1 find one of those great Jetstar Airfares that go to Hawaii around $299 each way. Last time we managed to get all 4 of us return to Hawaii from Sydney with our luggage for an amount short of $2800, which was pretty awesome BUT this time we are going to Disneyland too. We are happy to cut the lengthy flight by stopping in Hawaii both directions if it cuts costs but if we can save money to go directly home from LA - SYD this would be ok too (people do survive the long haul!) somehow I heard Qantas was putting on more flights from early next year to Hawaii so I had a fiddle around with their multi-stop flights on the website. We can't get our dates yet but I played with similar off peak dates in Feb - May next year and it always came back with a price around $6000 for the 4 of us. 2 adults and 2 children. SYD-HNL, HNL-LAX, LAX-SYD.
Does anyone know if this sort of price could get any better? If we opt for the Jetstar option and get one of their great fares SYD-HNL return, and pay the domestic flights from Hawaii to LAX we could save around $800 at least.

I guess I am really talking circles here, but if anyone could offer insight on how to stalk the airlines for the best fare and when I should expect to get something good for October next year, how early I need to be or do I need to sort of wait until closer to get a good price?

 

[newkie]

We ended up with pretty cheap flights for the 6 of us and we are stopping in Hawaii on the way back, I think it was in the vicinity of $7800? I can't get to my computer right now to confirm that, but it was super cheap. We looked all through Kayak to find the cheapest, and then showed our travel agent and she booked it for us.

 

[aussie shaz]

Adding Hawaii as a stopover will always make it more expensive. We looked to do it for our trip last year, but the difference was ridiculous.

 

[mellyB]

I've started looking at airfares again. We were planning on going xmas next year but over the weekend decided to move it forward to sept/oct next year. I used expedia over the weekend and I was searching for this october to see what I could get and they had $1165 per person which covered San Fran, Hawaii & LA then home to sydney. Im hoping I can get something similar for next year when the time comes to booking our flights. By the way this was flying united.

 

[Meemoo]

I've started looking at airfares again. We were planning on going xmas next year but over the weekend decided to move it forward to sept/oct next year. I used expedia over the weekend and I was searching for this october to see what I could get and they had $1165 per person which covered San Fran, Hawaii & LA then home to sydney. Im hoping I can get something similar for next year when the time comes to booking our flights. By the way this was flying united.

I noticed United were not badly priced also, the problem with them though was they take you to LA then Hawaii, then back to LA to get home from Sydney, defeats the purpose of cutting a long flight unfortunately. The price you had sounds good though with all those stops. Are you planning to go to Halloween at DL?

 

[Meemoo]

We ended up with pretty cheap flights for the 6 of us and we are stopping in Hawaii on the way back, I think it was in the vicinity of $7800? I can't get to my computer right now to confirm that, but it was super cheap. We looked all through Kayak to find the cheapest, and then showed our travel agent and she booked it for us.

Kayak looks like a good site, thank you

 

[mellyB]

I noticed United were not badly priced also, the problem with them though was they take you to LA then Hawaii, then back to LA to get home from Sydney, defeats the purpose of cutting a long flight unfortunately. The price you had sounds good though with all those stops. Are you planning to go to Halloween at DL?

This airfare was syd-san fran-hawaii-la-sydney which suits us with what we want to do, and doesn't seem as pricey as some of the other fares I've found.

We won't be there for halloween. Thinking we'll be in the us from mid sept-mid october (4 weeks in total)

 

[Tashinwdw]

Let us know if you find cheap flights to Hawaii like that again, it might be enough to tempt DH for a quick holiday over there just the two of us.

 

[Meemoo]

Let us know if you find cheap flights to Hawaii like that again, it might be enough to tempt DH for a quick holiday over there just the two of us.

Will do The best way is to sign up for Jet Stars e-newsletters as they come up every so often but you need to jump on it fast! We were up at midnight when the sale started to get that last price!