Seattle -Kona charter on Feb 26, pet in cabin (Honolulu: broker, taxes)

[sonia s]

Charter flight Seattle -Kona on Feb 26, charter, one way, pets in cabin.
If you want to go with pets Kona quarantine people need no less than 2 weeks before your pet's arrival to issue a certificate for direct release at Kona airport, they cannot do faster.
Who wants to share this flight with us please send me PM.
We have one dog.

[sonia s]

Charter flight Seattle -Kona on Feb 26, one way, pets in cabin.
Not with DogTravel.
Who wants to share this flight with us [with your pets, without pets] please send me PM. asap
We have one dog. It was not easy to find one way to Kona flight with 3 weeks before departure. The plane can make a stop in Honolulu. If you depart from CA there is option for that too.
If you want to go with pets Kona quarantine people need no less than 2 weeks before your pet's arrival to issue a certificate for direct release at Kona airport, they cannot do faster.

[mdand3boys]

What kind of cost does this have? I think many people would like to know. Thanks!

[sonia s]

Pricing completely depends on how many passengers share the flight. One member here flew with DogTravel club (shared flight) recently from CA, 2,500 per seat, the lowest LA - Honolulu price I know of. One-way flight costs much less than whole flight ( whole flight: A - B - A; you pay one-way A- B without paying for B-A if somebody else books B - A; another name for one-way is empty leg ) . One more thing with planning a charter flight when you plan to fly to Hawaii with your first-time-enter-Hawaii pets, and you want your pets to be released to you at an airport: you must get permission [certificate/direct release program] from Hawaii Quarantine station; quarantine station needs time to issue the certificate, arrival date will be in the certificate (arrival date is up to you, you tell them when you want to arrive), and if cost of a charter flight is an issue you have to multitask to lower your expenses: find cheaper one way, find enough people to share the cost (one way is expensive too), and have enough time to get the certificate before departure. 3 weeks before departure is rare find for one-way. People to share flight: start looking for them now: dog club, travel blogs, charter companies.

[sonia s]

To get the certificate/direct release program/ - website:
Animal Quarantine Branch — Hawaii Department of Agriculture, http://hawaii.gov/hdoa/ai/aqs

[sonia s]

If you have pets with you:
Direct release at an airport program, direct release at Honolulu airport and neighbor islands: your pets do not need to go to the quarantine facility for quarantine, if you meet all the quarantine laws requirements; it is relatively easy: go on the website Animal Quarantine Branch — Hawaii Department of Agriculture [http://hawaii.gov/hdoa/ai/aqs]
, print the requirement, bring it to your pets' vet, your vet will vaccinate your guys, take blood for lab test, send their blood to one of the mainland's lab, the labs check blood and send result to your vet; if the result is right, you send the papers to Honolulu station (if you plan to fly to Honolulu) or neighbor island designated vet clinics (other HI Islands), their phone numbers on the website, they will issue a certificate for direct release at an airport, read a checklist for a direct release. The blood work takes time, 120 days waiting period.
Regarding pet flights in-cabin, some commercial airlines allow to bring a small pet in-cabin, so, you only need a charter if to fly your pets in cargo is not an option and if you cannot fly them in cabin of commercial flights.

[sonia s]

One more option to lower charter costs for a family: if it is a shared charter flight : one spouse accompanies pets on a charter, another spouse flies a commercial, a commercial is cheaper.

[US-Traveller]

How do you arrange these types of flights on your own? What service do you use?

[PacificFlights]

Originally Posted by US-Traveller

How do you arrange these types of flights on your own? What service do you use?

You contact a jet charter service. They will broker the trip to see what's available and shoot you a price. Hawaii is a bit unusual since unlike the mainland where you can fly from Alaska to Argentina in a single engine airplane, Hawaii has many miles of water with no airports enroute so the aircraft has to be certified to travel that over water distance non-stop.

You are paying for that aircraft for the total time you are using it including any cost to reposition it, return to the mainland, and forced overnight stays. And you pay all landing, departure, ground service, ramp service, taxes and fees.

A strange side effect of the current economic situation is many jets are sitting idle so the cost per hour has become very competitive, but with less flights comes less chances of finding a charter where you're not the sole charterer for the entire roundtrip.

Cost really depends on your ability to fill the capacity of the aircraft. Empty seats are paid for by those with seats. And you have to match the final capacity with the aircraft and cost breakpoint. Although you can get smoking deals on 40 passenger charters, if you only have 12 people paying for the whole thing, they had better be rich. I have some ballpark figures based on various scenarios.