The direct flight is on Continental (Chase-Master Card/One Pass). This time we flew American with Citibank-Master Card/Advantage FF miles. My sister joined us for 3 weeks (Wed.-Wed.), as we got her a R/T ticket from Newark to Honolulu on United for $260. It was one of those snooze-you lose tickets that appeared on Kayak.com last summer and we grabbed it since our 4 week reservations were already in place from 1/10-2/7/09 (2 weeks in Kauai and 2 weeks in Maui). Since it's such a long flight time, with layovers, we always stay multiple weeks. We will be using FF miles on United (Chase-Visa/Milage Plus) this summer (2 weeks in Kona and 2 weeks in Maui). We open FF charge accounts, get 70,000 miles for 2 R/T tickets to Hawaii, cancel and move on to another FF credit card. We often have 2 airline accounts going at the same time, one in my name and one in DH's name. We are currently using a Delta (American Express/ SkyMiles) card. We also fly out of Philly. if it is cheaper. Can't get enough ALOHA!
Barry...Enjoyed your photo gallaries, also! (Not sorry we missed the Jersey snow!)