Round Trip Honolulu to Osaka Japan for $258 or to Kuala Lumpur for $358

Airasia the budget carrier based in Kuala Lumpur will begin flights to and from Kuala Lumpur and Osaka to Honolulu. There promo rates are starting at just $129 one way to and from Osaka. And $179 from Kuala Lumpur. It is actually the same flight that stops in Osaka for 1.5 hours either direction. From Osaka, you can use high speed trains to travel around Japan. Once you reach Kuala Lumpur Airasia offers an extensive networks of flights to every major Asian destination, for cheap. Flights to Bangkok or Singapore, or Hanoi regularly cost on $50. This represents a great deal for those of us from Alaska.  We have direct flights from Anchorage to HNL.  You could vacation in Hawaii as long as you wanted then fly on to Japan or Malaysia. This opens up the opportunity for Alaskans to get to Asia more direct than flying through Seattle or another gateway city.