United flights to Honolulu

[Durian Fiend]

Right.  I'm grumpily resigning myself to taking people to and from Kona.  Found a Kona to Raleigh one-stop flight that knocks off 10 hrs. of travel time for my friends.

I've done that Kona trip to pick up and then later drop off visitors several times.  I finally put my foot down a few years ago and started telling people no.  The only exception is my parents.  They are too old to figure out changing planes and taking a bus or whatever.  Now that Southwest pricing in in effect there is no reason for me to waste nearly 10 hours driving back and forth twice for anybody else.  (The costco trip doesn't make it worth it).  

The last time I picked them up the parking at Kona was insane.  There were no spots anywhere, the only one I could find was a mile away from baggage claim and there was no shuttle.  Because it took so long to find a spot I had to jog to the airport under the intense Kona summer sun, barely got there in time to meet up with the parents me all sweaty just to explain to them that I needed to go fetch my car and their luggage would come out before I could meet them at the curb.

You could arrange with Hawaiian to transfer your parents in Honolulu. They wouldn’t have to walk or figure anything out for themselves.