# Airfare to Hawaii in the late 1960s: how much? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 28, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475 "2009-10-28T17:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/1 "2009-10-28T17:16:05Z")
I’m a big fan of the old “Hawaii Five-O” series. As a kid, Hawaii was some far-off place that might as well have been the moon. So I wondered. . . how much would it have cost to fly to Hawaii back in the late 1960s? I know in one ep of the old series “The Fugitive,” they mention a plane ticket from New York to Athens costing just under $400. That’s about the same distance from New York to Honolulu. Anyone??? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/2 "2009-10-28T22:36:47Z")
1968, _New York Times_. Pan Am. Round trip from NYC, 6 hotel nights, limos and sightseeing tours. $453. Option 2. Six days in Oahu, 3 with unlimited mileage rent-a-car, airfare, hotel, some meals. $460. Option 3. Four days at Waikiki, then 1 each at Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii. Hotels, sights, airfare, $549. There were many more options. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/3 "2009-10-28T23:00:28Z")
> [@The Inflation Calculator](#): > > What cost $460 in 1968 would cost $2713.58 in 2007. Figured it’d more, actually… ([The Inflation Calculator](http://www.westegg.com/inflation/)) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/4 "2009-10-29T00:37:47Z")
Cool. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/5 "2009-10-29T01:09:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by The Inflation Calculator > What cost $460 in 1968 would cost $2713.58 in 2007. > [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Figured it’d more, actually… ([The Inflation Calculator](http://www.westegg.com/inflation/)) Lot’s of things don’t follow that basic rule–example: Our 12" black and white tv in the Fall of 1948 cost about $350. Sixty years later, that’s the cost of a decent sized color set. ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/6 "2009-10-29T03:36:45Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Our 12" black and white tv in the Fall of 1948 cost about $350. Sixty years later, that’s the cost of a decent sized color set. Using the Inflation Calculator mentioned above, $350 translates to $2064.68. Don’t think of it as a “12” black and white tv". Think of it as a “state-of-the-art tv”. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/7 "2009-10-29T14:55:55Z")
The Google Books search through Life Magazines is great for this kind of thing: > **[LIFE](https://books.google.com/books?id=R1cEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s#all_issues_anchor)** > > LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s... I found one Pan Am ad from 1966 that lists the New York - Hawaii price as $418. (You can also see the great ads from the 50’s where the flight to Hawaii from the West Coast took 12 hours.) ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/8 "2009-10-29T15:03:55Z")
Yes, I would have loved to fly to Hawaii on a **Stratocruiser** I just love that name! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airfare-to-hawaii-in-the-late-1960s-how-much/515475/9 "2009-10-31T02:08:59Z")
> [@SmackFu](#): > > The Google Books search through Life Magazines is great for this kind of thing: > [LIFE - Google Books](http://books.google.com/books?id=R1cEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s#all_issues_anchor) What a great site!! Of course, you have now ruined my weekend as I start to look through these issues and be fascinated with the artwork and ads and photography…but looking at the ads with the prices are great.