I was out there back in April and got a decent bit of inter-island flying in myself. It’s so cheap, easy, and above all fun to do you’d be made not to!
The four main inter-island carriers are:
Hawaiian with 717s
Aloha with 737-200s
Go! with CRJs and a few Caravans
Island Air with Dash 8s
Single fares start from £10 one way including tax, up to a maximum of about £25 one way unless you pick a busy flight.
You have so many different options its hard to know where to start. I assume you’re starting in HNL, in which case you’ve got it easy. The best thing to do is to fly a circular route, so I would suggest something like HNL-OGG-LIH-HNL. You can easily fit in 4 or 5 segments into a day though!
I personally arrived onto the island LAX-OGG with AA, then connected onto HNL with Hawaiian on the 717. A few days later I flew HNL-JHM (Kapalua, Maui) in a Go! Caravan. I’d strongly reccomend trying to get into Kapalua in the Caravan if you can, the STOL approach puts London City to shame 😀
After that I flew the short 5 minute sector to OGG, followed by a connection to Aloha on the 732. I then flew back from HNL to LAX.
At the end of the day just book a route and stick to it. There is so much to see that you won’t get to do it all, but at the same time anything you do do is guaranteed to be a fantastic day of flying. 😎
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