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The priceline scenario isn't the common reason to have separate tickets.
I want to go to Maui. Flying on a single ticket the price might be $900 either non-stop or connecting in HNL. Advantage - bags are interlined. Price is expensive.
There are often fare sales direct to Honolulu (except there aren't any right now). Your trip can only terminate in HNL for the sale. So, you buy the $400 ticket roundtrip on United to get the sale price and a separate Hawaiian roundtrip ticket to get you to OGG for lets say $160. Total price: $560. In this secenario you have to pick up your bags in HNL and recheck them. It is very common the single ticket price is much higher than breaking it into separate tickets.
True, but the decission to use two seperate tickets without the industry requirments to inetrline was soley the passengers. It's the passenger, who gave up the baggage handling to save some money. You buy two seperate tickets, you get no baggage transfer, you buy a single ticket, you get baggage transfers.
The priceline scenario isn't the common reason to have separate tickets.
I want to go to Maui. Flying on a single ticket the price might be $900 either non-stop or connecting in HNL. Advantage - bags are interlined. Price is expensive.
There are often fare sales direct to Honolulu (except there aren't any right now). Your trip can only terminate in HNL for the sale. So, you buy the $400 ticket roundtrip on United to get the sale price and a separate Hawaiian roundtrip ticket to get you to OGG for lets say $160. Total price: $560. In this secenario you have to pick up your bags in HNL and recheck them. It is very common the single ticket price is much higher than breaking it into separate tickets.
Yes..this is my exact thought being that I live in Hilo. Another thing I thought of is I'm a frequent flier. I cash in my Hawaiian Airlines reward ticket on Hawaiian to get to say San Diego. But my final destination is Denver. Normally I would just pay for a short flight from San Diego to Denver on a different airline. If Hawaiian went to more cities it would be a smaller issue for me because I would prefer to support a local business, however their mainland umbrella is quite small leaving me no choice but to at some point catch a different flight to where I need to go. You cannot book to connecting cities on other airlines via Hawaiian's website. If they are going to take this stance they should at the least allow this feature that other airlines have. I miss Aloha at least they kept each other in check.
If I were to tell potential customers that I would not provide a service that all of my competitors were, they would laugh in my face and head out the door to the next guy.
I used to be an elite frequent flyer with Hawaiian Airlines. Last year, when United/Continental started direct flights to Hilo from LAX and SFO, I asked the "powers-that-be" at Hawaiian Airlines if they were ever going to have direct flights to Hilo from the U.S. West Coast. Unfortunately, their response was to create a "Maui hub" instead. I'm now an elite frequent flyer with United Airlines and I haven't been on one of Hawaiian's A330s or 767s in about a year.
When all the airlines start doing it and TSA figures out that they are screening the same bags twice for no real reason maybe the regulators will have something to say about it. There is already a house bill out there proposing a minimum of 1 checked bag be free with ticket fare because all the extra carry-on bags costs the gov't more to screen at the checkpoints.
Nope the TSA or FAA nor DOT will EVER force the airline to interline baggage when they have no interest in the travel. This is not the same as interlining when travel is on their own airline or through a single ticket, those wil still be interlined. Basically you are having a meal at a resturant and when finished you decide to go across the street to the coffee shop for drinks but you expect the resturant to bring you your desert to that coffee shop for free. Yeah right! You want the bags interlined, buy a single ticket where the baggage fees and conditions can be monitored and transfered. As a FYI, the regulations actually calls for the bags to not be interlined because if they transfer it to the other airline and you never check in for that airline, guess who is on the hook for any issues, yep the first airline even though you were the rreason for the issue. So the first airline gets whapped and fined for your mess up. You want to blame someone, look at the passenegers who screwedd it up for all.
Basically you are having a meal at a resturant and when finished you decide to go across the street to the coffee shop for drinks but you expect the resturant to bring you your desert to that coffee shop for free. Yeah right!
Great analogy!
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