Flying from the East Coast (NYC) and just started looking at flights for Xmas live aboard. Seems like best way to go is United thru Tokyo or Honolulu. Hawaii is an extra flight but get there faster. Looking for some feedback if you have been and which route you used. Thanks!
Glad you ask the question. Me too like to know. I'm going there this coming December & bought the following United Airlines shortest outbound flights from Houston (IAH) to Koror (ROR), via Los Angeles (LAX) and Honolulu (HNL) and GUAM (GUM) and for the inbound flights through San Francisco (SFO) instead of LAX. Here are my itinerary:
Outbound
1. 12/22/17 UA1169 IAH 07:35A - LAX 09:20A
2. 12/22/17 UA1224 LAX 10:00A - HNL 01:45P
3. 12/22/17 UA0201 HNL 02:45P - GUM 06:35P
4. 12/23/17 UA0185 GUM 08:25P - ROR 11:01P
Inbound
1. 01/01/18 UA0158 ROR 01:45A - GUM 04:50A
2. 01/01/18 UA0200 GUM 07:15A - HNL 06:25A
3. 12/31/17 UA0356 HNL 09:55P - SFO 04:53A
4. 01/01/18 UA2405 SFO 06:00A - IAH 11:55A
My buddy will be coming from Fort Lauderdale, Florida end up buying a ticket the day before to meet me in Houston before flying together to Palau.
One of my big corcern is how the heck they transfer my gears in LAX in 40 minutes (see my outbound flight 1 & 2).