Best Way to Use Alaska Miles and Hawaiian Miles 2025 ‍️

Im wondering is it ok to transfer Amex points to Hawaiian airline then transfer to Alaska?

I'm based in HNL with a HA CC and there's a lot of reasons to take advantage of this. Question is when may it be better to keep the miles with HA. Second, is with all these folks buyng 2x points, isnt it likely that reward fares will be snatched up as soon as it is available?

Can you purchase hawaiian miles using CSR? Does it gives 3% cash back considering travel? or straight 1%?

Need to get 4 West-Europe round trip flights for Oct-Dec 2025. Seems like there's no availability right now and probably gotta wait a couple of months, you think it's worth buying the miles?

Don’t forget to use your Alaska cc too and earn on the purchase as well 🙌🏼

My usual is Turkish for United domestic and now Alaska for American domestic. Looking forward to booking something to Oktoberfest next year. Hopeful we get to fly the 747 first class!

Sebby, I got a question… I don’t have the Hawaiian CC. Is it worth applying for it and buying (80k) $2k on miles? At the end including sign up bonus would be around 236k miles for about $2150 including the $99 annual fee. Thanks for your advice!

Just bought 50k miles making it 100k. I have some redemptions in mind that I want to make in the next year with JAL and StarLux. Your video got me to buy some and ultimately making my stash at Alaska quite a big bigger just over 250k Alaska at this time. Thank you and excellent video

Qantas business class is literally impossible to find😢 Trying to look for LAX to Sydney or Melbourne next June.

I was looking at redemptions from JFK to anywhere in Asia business and best I could find was 250k miles?? Seems like a terrible redemption. Are partner airlines the same redemption for business?

is it worth also transferring points to hawaiian if you travel west to europe several times per year?

The most you can buy is 100k miles. You will have 200k miles. If transferred to Alaska airlines, one way businesses ticket to the Middle East from NY is 150k on Quatar Airline. Only NY to Doha is business class. The 2nd leg is an economy class.

Can I use the CSR to purchase these miles and still have the purchase go towards my welcome bonus? 😅 🌴 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

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Does this not work for economy seats on alaska to Japan from LAX? its 70k Miles and costs 889 dollars to buy those 70k miles. The flight itself costs 500-600 Dollars

🏝 hello Sebs. Question, does buying miles count towards SUB or rewards? Say buying a ton of miles to gain rewards??

Thanks

Anyone have experience/luck transfering to Korean Air?

Hi Seb, is it a good strategy to apply for Hawaiian Airlines credit card and flat out buying miles worth $2000? It would give 236,000 miles costing 0.8c per mile which is a good value too. I have some international travel I want to plan but finding award availability is a task with Alaska. So have been thinking about this since couple of days haha.

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Correct me if I’m wrong but when buying miles, cpp doesn’t apply. The value of your money is the points you get divided by the money you spent for it (200,000p/$2540) = 0.79 points per cent spent on it. If you compare this with the rent payment with Bilt/Alaska, you get 3x in Alaska points on rent payments but pay a 3% fee, which is 1.0 points per cent spent (in this case on the fees) which is a better deal than buying points this way. Am I thinking about this correctly?

As a relative newbie to this way of booking, I would’ve really liked to have seen how you would’ve actually booked the flights you discussed using your Alaska miles with the partner airlines.

Bora bora ? 😂

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Good morning, Sebby. I'm a new subscriber 1st, and i would like to thank you for this information. 2nd, my question is, can I buy this Hawaiian miles and transfer them now for my Asia trip in May. We're going to travel around Asia for a few months.

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When do you think Amex will remove Hawaiian as transfer partner?

Taking a year off work next year and traveling to New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Africa, Italy, and South America. Booked JAL business class back from Taiwan for 75k. I also use Alaska for a lot of short haul flights (ex. STL-DFW is only 4.5k). Been tirelessly searching for JAL first with no luck so far. Contemplating Starlux for 75k for PremEcon to try their product. Getting business class to ICN on Korean Air could be a good option for people too. Cathay Pacific would be an awesome redemption, but I've only found Economy with my searches thus far.

I would rather transfer points from American Express to Hawaiian.

Most my Amex points got redeem for cash with Schwab or transferred to Hilton. AS is becoming an easy way to mimic expert mode, especially as we start to travel abroad. Just back from Tokyo, and we're heading back next year for a cruise, Hong Kong to Tokyo, seeing the Philippines and Taiwan for the first time. 🌴

🌴 question for you seb🌴
I have roughly 300k AA miles, located out of Charlotte NC. Trying to fly my family of four (kids ages 3 & 1) somewhere fun. I know this is a loaded question, but how would you best use these AA miles for travel?

(We are pretty flexible on schedule too)
Current status with AA (platinum pro)
Also a Hyatt globalist

Love your channel!

🌴 Thank you for this informative video! We just purchased 400,000! Most we’ve ever purchased! Thank you!!

HA site is down and wont let you apply!

Solid vid as always. Scouting Alaska partners for an Asia trip so appreciate the heads up on the sale !

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Does anyone know to transfer from Hawaiian to alaska do you select “share” miles?

Would you recommend buying Hawaiian points for speculative trip bookable in 8 months?

Just bought 1M miles. Targeting a big family trip to Ireland with a stopover in London on BA. 🌴

I will say that if you try looking up different gateway airports and TPE on Alaska's website, you can find some cheaper Starlux redemptions. I managed to book 80k BOS-SFO-TPE in J.

Oooh, I just spent a lot of my Alaska miles this year so I appreciate this "golden opportunity" to replenish at a decent deal. Thank you! 🌴

Does any one have success with Alaska redemption on Cathay Pacific with layover? I have tired multiple times in the past two years and it never seemed to work (Alaska + Cathay or Cathay + Cathay) I was only looking for economy and I have found award availability in the separate lags before tying to book them as a multi city award

Hey Sebby. I've had problems booking award flights on Alaskan airlines. Often times, I see a great deal from MIA or NYC to Europe on One World Partners. After going through the booking process, I will get a message saying that they can't confirm seats with their partner flights and my booking doesn't go through. I just looked at the "Flexible date" search option that I learned of from your video and it seems more accurate in terms of what is really available on a particular day compared to doing a single day search. Any thoughts on this problem? It can be very frustrating to find a great deal only to find out that it's a mirage!

What airlines or points would you say are best for flying to Hawaii from the west coast?

I saw this pop up, but this is your business channel. Is this not available for the average traveler who has The Alaska program? Or is it not worth it if you're just getting regular seats versus first class?

Third!

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