Last week, Alaska Airlines’ takeover of Hawaiian Airlines closed. While the two airlines now belong to the same company, there’s a lot of work to be done with the integration, and the company has provided a roadmap of how this will all play out.
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The reports of failures to transfer MR points to Hawaiian are all over r/awardtravel, but there are also reports of recent successes.
I utilized this yesterday. For Hawaii residents, first class mainland flights via Hawaiian (operated by the a330), are far superior options than Alaska at a lower cost(4 cents per point for Amex points for Hawaiian)
I made a transfer(Alaska to Hawaiian), Monday afternoon. Pop up said may take 48 hours to process. The miles were transferred within 60 seconds. Based in Hawaii, Hawaiian has been the main option for great first class flights to the west coast/asia. Can’t wait to fly the 787 again. Flew in business class from SFO-HNL-OGG. Best domestic flight ever.
Likewise, I was able to transfer now as well. It took me several tries to get past the error message, though.
This is affecting other transfer partners too. I tried transferring to BA before the bonus ends this month and kept getting error messages. Online chat was able to do it for me.
I had this happen to me but I only got an error message once or twice, it went through eventually. (Didn't think about how the online chat could help, though, that's great to know.)
I also moved my MR points to Hawaiian without difficulty. It certainly wasn’t instant but it worked.
I did get the Hawaiian credit card and transferred a bunch of Amex points but am seriously wondering if the right move. With the recent devaluation for Alaska, I just haven't seen much of anything useful. I flew Sea-Fra with Condor for 70K in business in August (was great!), but now there's NOTHING remotely useful available -- everything starts at 250K+ one-way for months and months out. Is it becoming Skymiles for premium redemptions?!
Rumors online that MR to Hawaiian to AS is not allowed per some verbiage on the HA homepage. I would not make this transfer speculatively expecting it to go through anytime soon.
You don't address if you think this is a good deal because the value of both currencies was not 1:1 before but now you can transfer interchangeably 1:1.
Won't let me transfer from Hawaiian to AS, keeps giving me error "You are not eligible for this exchange. Please check the FAQ section for more details or contact your Loyalty provider.".
Can't find any information as to why I would not be "eligible".
Will try to reach out to support later but luckily I only purchased the minimum 3,000 to test it out first.
Could you do a reverse transfer to combine points into one account? For example, my wife transfers all of her Alaska Air Miles into her Hawaiian Account, transfers all Hawaiian miles to my Hawaiian account, then I transfer all miles to my Alaska account?
Saw that Hawaiian accounts can transfer FOR FREE to friends and family. Could be a great opportunity to combine ALL the points into one account?
Worked like a charm! AMEX to Hawaiian to Alaska. Thanks for the info and link!