Travel Briefs Star-Bulletin Staff

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Flight of your own

Island Air is now offering private charter flights, with the slogan: "Forget first class. This is a class all its own."

The new charter option allows travelers to customize a flight, with departures at any time, on any day, from any airport in Hawaii and travel to any destination that Island Air serves. Travelers can also customize in-flight amenities, which include arranging for anything from pizza and beer to lobster and champagne. Sky's the limit for busy executives or bridal and reunion parties. The flights can accommodate up to 37 passengers per flight in all-leather seats.

Even if you're traveling the old-fashioned way, Island Air continues to offer 88 daily flights to Honolulu, the islands of Molokai, Lanai, Maui (Kahului and Kapalua), Kauai (Lihue), and the Big Island (Kona and Hilo).

Call 1-800-255-7198 or visit islandair.com.

Earn extra credit

Kauai Beach Hotel & Resort (formerly the Radisson Kauai Beach Resort) is offering a special reward for guests through Jan. 10, 2006.

Stay three nights and receive a $50 resort credit (a $100 resort credit offered for stays of four nights or longer). The credits can be used at any of the resort's facilities, including restaurants and lounges, spa services, the luau, South Pacific dinner show, or other activities offered by the hotel.

Guests receive free transportation to and from Lihue airport and the Kauai Lagoons Golf Course, admission to nightly Manager's Cocktail Party and Polynesian dance show, plus tennis on the hotel's four courts, and a gift certificate for a complimentary one-night stay on a return visit.

The 25-acre deluxe beachfront property is located on a three-mile stretch of beach on Kauai's eastern "Coconut Coast." Call (888)-805-3843 or (808) 245-1955, or visit www.kauaibeachhotelandresort.com.