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Originally Posted by kipperiggy
We flew Saskatoon --> Calgary --> Vancouver --> Oahu when we went. Went with Westjet - this is going to sound like a completely random comment, but I would be wary of any airline having two flights leaving to two different Hawaiian Islands (other was Maui) within ten minutes of each other. We left Friday, and Westjet flew my mom's luggage to Maui instead. Although we ended up with a $500 voucher to compensate for the inconvenience, Westjet was pathetic at handling the situation. They found the luggage to be in Maui sometime Saturday but didn't get it to our hotel in Oahu until late Tuesday. When you're only there for a week, half of it without your luggage hurts. Like I said they tried to please my mom with a voucher - but better customer service would have been to get that suitcase on the first flight to Oahu!
Pack a lot in your carry-on luggage! A good practice in case they lose it.
Any flight I have ever looked up to Hawaii has gone through both Calgary and Vancouver.. but maybe that it just Westjet. It's been a while so I don't quite remember.
I don't know if you've ever flown over the ocean but I found that there was more turbelence (sp?) than I have ever experienced. We flew back in the middle of the night and I couldn't sleep because the ride was so bumpy. If anybody in your party is nervous of turbelence I would make sure to pack some Gravol or something for them!
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I can't remember who we flew with back in 2004, but they lost our luggage coming back to Calgary. I think we figured out it was because we caught an earlier flight from Kauai to Oahu, but couldn't take an earlier flight from Oahu to Calgary, however our luggage did. So when we got to Calgary and our luggage didn't come off of the plane we filled in a missing luggage claim. Got a call a couple hours later (just as we arrived home in Lethbridge) that they found the luggage and it was enroute to the airport in Lethbridge.
As I said, I don't remember the airline, but back in 2004 we took a flight that connected in Salt Lake City. There was also an option to stop at LAX. We figured LAX was huge and more likely to have delays so we chose Salt Lake.
I somewhat remember turbulence, but I don't remember it being much so that we couldn't sleep or anything like that. It was a long time ago so my memory is muddy, but I do remember on my next flight, which was in 2007 to Vegas that I was pleased with how little turbulence we had compared to the Hawaii flight.