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Tonight's interesting booking exercise - We're headed to the Big Island next spring, followed by a week on Kauai. I booked our mainland<->island flights last week but hadn't booked our interisland flights yet. On the way home from work, I remembered that I had about 11,500 United miles that I've had to top off more than once to keep from expiring and wondered if I could use them for our interisland flights. Lo and behold, I could - and they were only 6,000 miles each on Hawaiian using the United miles. For comparison, they were about 9,500-11,500 miles on the Chase Ultimate rewards site or 7,500-8,500 on the Hawaiian site.
I transferred 1,000 miles from Chase UR to United, they posted immediately, then I booked the flights. I couldn't select seats, but I don't care for the short flights. It was a great way to finally use up those orphan miles since we rarely fly United. I'm still surprised that it was fewer miles to use United than either Hawaiian or Ultimate Rewards.
I transferred 1,000 miles from Chase UR to United, they posted immediately, then I booked the flights. I couldn't select seats, but I don't care for the short flights. It was a great way to finally use up those orphan miles since we rarely fly United. I'm still surprised that it was fewer miles to use United than either Hawaiian or Ultimate Rewards.