They discontinued the daily Newark-Honolulu nonstop in April of last year. It came back as a seasonal winter flight, haven't checked if they're doing it again this coming winter.
UA’s EWR-HNL flights are six days a week in Jan/Feb 2026. No idea about the rest of the year.
My memory is the direct flight service stopped starting 2023. I booked a direct flight for August 2023 and was rescheduled automatically into one stop at SFO almost last minute and I wasn’t happy. I had to book a JFK-HNL direct last minute. At that time, the insider information said they were repurposing long haul aircrafts for other Asian routes which were more profitable…
Historically they have stopped/restarted a few times, but generally when it returned it was meant to resume as year-round service. The last time year-round service was canceled there was an announcement in October 2023 that they would discontinue the route in mid-April of 2024. There were a few articles online about that announcement, including this one from The Points Guy and this one from Beat of Hawaii.
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But good for sales.
Not at all. HGV makes a big deal about how special the bHC properties are…that only owners can use the lounge plays into that message.
I don't want non owners in the lounge - that would raise my MFs.
The cost of operating the owners lounges is paid for by the HOAs at the individual resorts rather than by HGVC. It might be possible for resort HOAs to agree to reciprocal access, but there could be legal barriers to that sort of thing based on limitations in the CC&Rs, etc. if they were open to anyone staying there, on the other hand, it would be a cost of operation of the resort an HOA could pay for, but much further out of alignment with marketing needs.
Well, it gets to the question of who is an owner.
An owner at The Quin is someone that owns at The Quin and pays MFs there that pay for operation of the owners lounges.
In HGVC, the rules for the system have been set up so that individual resorts may have certain amenities such as an owners' lounge that may be limited to use by owners at that resort. I couldn't comment on arrival/departure lounges, as I don't really know of any at HGVC resorts, though they could be set up similarly if a specific resort wanted to do so. This has been a provision of the rules for at least the last 6 years and was likely included when they started developing resorts like W 57th that have owners' lounges. HGVC is a system with rules that govern its use that are disclosed to all purchasers of resorts in the system and are also made publicly available by the State authorities that regulate timeshare developers/operators.
It's not really a question at all. If you own HGVC you own a particular unit type, season, and property (and/or perhaps fixed unit/week). Most (all?) ownerships in the US are deeded, most (all?) outside the US are not.
Actually, the question @Wexflyer2 should have asked is “Who is an owner for the purpose of accessing an owners lounge at a resort for which there is a restriction making access exclusive to owners?” Without the identification of the purpose, it’s too ambiguous.
Does anyone know if you buy resale at Hilton Liberty Place would you get access to the club room with your deeded week or even hilton points?
Here's what it says about it for Liberty Place on the HGVC website:
Deeded Liberty Place Owners would include resale purchasers of a deed there. If they manage it as they do at other bHC resorts, such an owner would get access to the Owners' Lounge when booking a room there with other points or exchanging in via RCI. It's not clear from the description of the restrictions whether the Evening food and beverage service provided in the Muddle Cocktail Bar & Lounge is restricted to deeded Liberty Place Owners; I haven't been there and couldn't tell anyone whether that area is divided somehow to prevent non-owners from partaking of the food and beverage service. It's also not really clear whether the Evening food and beverage service is "free" to deeded Liberty Place Owners. (I include the scare quotes around "free" because it's paid for by the HOA using the maintenance fees the deeded owners pay; TANSTAAFEFABS, to misquote the acronym on the subject. I'll bet no one ever uses this acronym again, though it does roll off the tongue nicely!)
The owners’ lounge is completely separate from the onsite cocktail bar and lounge.
I think the question is whether a deeded owner would get access if they booked a reservation using regular HGVC points vs. Hilton Club points. For W. 57th the answer is yes, and I assume it would be the same here.