ukguy78

Under the partner award section of united.com, it shows that you can get a roundtrip inter-island ticket on Aloha for 5,000 miles. However, does anyone know if they will allow you to get two, one-way tix instead of one roundtrip for the 5000 miles?

UnitedSkies

AFAIK, all awards are for roundtrip/open jaw travel only at the published rate.

TMAYER

I recall a previous post from someone who took a 1-way ticket and was charged the full 5,000 miles so I suspect they would charge you 10,000 miles for two 1-way tickets

cblaisd

No, sorry. No can do.

CPRich

(just doing some researc on old threads and had to reply here for future researchers)

Actually, I believe you can. On my last trip to the islands I booked 3 one-way flights on different days - HNL-KOA-OGG-HNL. The agent told me I could take 2 legs for 5K, but 3 or 4 legs would be 10K. Other threads have indicated tickets such as HNL-LIH-KOA being ticketed for 5K.

nbseer

I've tried twice in the last few weeks to use 15,000 Mileage Plus miles for three one-way OGG to LIH tix on Aloha for next June.

Each time, when I call back the next day for confirmation, United tells me Aloha has denied the free flights.

Maybe it's because they want to wait and see how fares sell closer to flight date?

I'm giving up trying.

Mrp Alert

Interisland flights are going for as low $50 r/t. I value my miles at $0.01 each. $52 vs. $50 worth of miles + award ticketing fees & headaches = buy the ticket

Go! by Mesa has a FF program and may start awarding reciprocal interisland credit by the time June rolls around. If not, Hawaiian offers FF credit for many different airlines excluding UA.

djlndc

I did three one-ways on separate days in August for only 10k miles.

HNL-LIH
LIH-OGG
OGG-HNL

I had an easy time booking the flights... and flying them.

cruxader

I redeemed SIN-NRT-HNL-NRT-SIN before. Then I also redeemed HNL-ITO-HNL for another 5K miles.

I guess I should have asked if I could do SIN-NRT-HNL, HNL-ITO, ITO-HNL-NRT-SIN on one single award. Probably not as it will involve an additional stopover!

CPRich

I can confirm that I just booked LIH-OGG-HNL for 5k miles/person for next August. The rules explicitly state one open jaw allowed.

I also noticed that, despite the UA award chart changing to 10K "within Hawaii", the Aloha partner flights are still only 5K. I hurried to book mine last Saturday to beat the point increase, and it turns out there wasn't one (unless you are trying to fly in Island Air via UA codeshare).

If you are flying to/from HNL, the low fares (driven by Go! and Island Air competition, iirc) make even a 5K award not a good use of miles. But trying to fly between the other islands it's still a good deal. Mine were 5K for a $140 ticket.

AtlantaAl

After three calls to convince the offshored CSRs that such an award was possible and physically talking the third step-by-step through the process (thanks FT!), I called daily for two weeks trying to get two seats HNL-LIH released from Aloha earlier this summer. No dice. I got the feeling any status whatsoever - 2P and up - would have helped, but YMMV.

The interisland price wars come and go. If you have time, watch and wait. It's a battle to the death.

JustinCredible

We've successfully completed two years ago two first class award tickets on United to Hawaii. It was a hassle to get it done especially with only a three day hold maximum when booking a 10 day trip.

Now wanting to go back for a honeymoon in December, we're trying again. But this time we're seeing that getting two first class seats on the same plane over the pacific into Hawaii is virtually non-existant. It appears as if only one award seat is being loaded 331 days out.

Returning out of Honolulu, there appears to be two seats available.

Has anyone noticed this? And I wonder if they will release another seat on the outbound leading up to our trip?

We're tempted to book two tickets on back-to-back flights on the LAX-Maui and worst case see if we one of us can fly standby.

Any advice?

Thanks for your time.

cblaisd

December 15 through January 2 is probably the worst time of the year for award availability.

If you've not already tried these: a) check for any Hawaii airport (OGG/LIH/KOA); if you can do an open jaw over the water then getting an interisland one-way is cheap, b) ask United to check for a partner award on Aloha. Aloha's first class product is very nice and they fly from SNA, OAK, plus some I'm not remembering. (It might even be possible -- although this is just a guess -- to ask them to check award availability on AC)

Pat89339

I have been successful booking two standard coach awards and waitlisting for the saver first award. It was the same amount of miles (I don't know about now though) and you should be right in line if the waitlist clears. With a long lead time, it shouldn't prove too much of an issue.

You didn't mention what period of time in December. If it's early in the month it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

UNITED959

Do you have UA status? You could always see about booking Y on a flight and waitlisting for F.