Hawaiian makes changes to Amazon mileage earning in their shopping mall

By: Ben Schlappig

Updated: July 19, 2013
Published: January 23, 2013

26 comments

Hawaiian’s online shopping mall has been the only way I know of to consistently earn bonus miles for Amazon purchases. While it was only one extra mile per dollar, they can add up if you make a lot of purchases through Amazon anyway. And the fact that you can transfer those points at a 1:2 ratio to Hilton helps as well, for those not interested in building up Hawaiian miles.

Well, they’ve changed the earnings structure as of today, with the most epic way of delivering bad news ever:

“With this enhancement you will no longer earn miles on purchases in all categories?” Awesome!

Instead you earn bonus miles in select, rotating categories. Right now that includes the following:

Kudos to Hawaiian on this huge ~~devaluation~~ enhancement!

(Tip of the hat to Scott)

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Robert Hanson Diamond

January 24, 2013, 2:05 pm

@Scott Thanks for "enhancing" my Amazon shopping. I've been using the HA portal to get a mere 2 HHonors points per dollar of spend. Your gift card method will be a bit more work, but get me 6 points per dollar. In Hawaiian's sense of the word, I've just "enhanced" all of my shopping thru Hawaiian's portal to zero. :D

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Eric Guest

January 24, 2013, 1:25 pm

Don't forget you can earn Hawaiian miles on Delta and JetBlue flights to top off those orphan accounts. You get Hawaiian credit of one mile per mile flown on JB vs. the 6 points per dollar spent that you get on JB itself. So it can be a much better deal to credit your cheap JB flights to Hawaiian.

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Robert Hanson Diamond

January 24, 2013, 1:01 pm

@Kevin Keep those miles and "enhance" your total with Hawaiian miles from B of A Hawaiian Airlines, and Bank of Hawaii {FIA}, credit card bonuses. One of each and you've got 70K more miles. Rinse and repeat, and Bob's Your Uncle :D

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Kevin Guest

January 24, 2013, 7:32 am

This is sad for me. I do a lot of shopping on Amazon, and I always used the Hawaiian referral link. My logic was that at some point, I'd have enough points to fly US to Australia via HNL or something like that. I have about 10K Hawaiian miles right now. Now that there is no more Amazon, I think I'll probably just transfer all of my Hawaiian miles to my wife's Hilton account and close it up.

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Joe C. Guest

January 24, 2013, 7:13 am

To me, this kind of "enhancement" is the same kind of enhancement that a root canal does to a bad tooth. At least at the end of the root canal, you alleviate some of the pain. In this case, I'm sure some of the pain was alleviated for the mall provider or HA. Very dissapointing. Here's hoping the bonus category is with you someday soon!

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