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When Alaska and Hawaiian merged, a very cool opportunity presented itself: you could share miles fee free between Alaska and Hawaiian accounts with different account names. This is all made possible via the Hawaiian Airlines World Elite Mastercard which offers that feature as a benefit. Let me explain
- The merger made it possible to combine your Hawaiian and Alaska accounts via this page here.
- The Hawaiian credit eliminates the fees when you combine Hawaiian miles from accounts with different names
Since I book all of my family’s travel, and usually am the one with elite status, it made sense for me to add the Hawaiian personal card to my wallet ( with a sweet 70k offer after a single purchase ), then I would have the ability to move any Hawaiian account holders miles into my account. This would allow me to combine my parents, and my wife’s miles into my account so I can easily book everyone’s travel.
Remember that it’s been announced that the ability to get all of these cards separately will soon go away and it’s highly likely the Hawaiian cards will just convert to Alaska cards. Personally I think these are kind of no brainers since they’ll go away and the offers are basically all time high with very low spend.
Here are the Hawaiian and Alaskan Cards: I don’t have affiliate links
Hawaiian Cards – lemme know if the code still works, it’s been very up and down.
- Both of these cards allow you to combine points fee free
| Hawaiian Airlines Business | $99 | 50k after $4k spend in 3mos |
| The Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite Mastercard® | $99 | 70k after single purchase in 90 days ( use code 015514) |
Alaska Cards
| Alaska Airlines Personal | $95 | 75k after $3k spend in 3 months + $122 BOGO |
| Alaska Airlines Business | $95 | 70k after $4k in 3 months + $122 BOGO |
How to combine Hawaiian Miles
When you log into your account, you want to look at the left side
- 4th down you see Share Miles
Sharing miles – usually it costs a fee
As you can see, if you don’t have an Hawaiian credit card it’ll cost you $25 + a penny per mile you transfer. Not worth it. Just having the card circumvents the fee.
Enter the account you want to combine with
You’ll then be informed that you avoid the fee since points are going into/out of a cardmember’s account
Using this feature to combine Alaska accounts
Here’s what I did, since none of my family members had Hawaiian accounts
- I created Hawaiian accounts for all of them
- Merged all of the Alaska miles into Hawaiian
- Then, individually moved their Hawaiian miles into my Hawaiian account
- Collectively moved all of these miles into Alaska account.
You could also do this with Amex points, if you wanted to created a stockpile of Alaska miles.
- Move Amex to each person’s Hawaiian account
- Combine the Hawaiian miles into a cardmember’s account
- Combine the Hawaiian and Alaska miles into a single account.
Alaska mileage redemptions will count toward status
The reason I will book more flights with Alaska miles, even if a competitor may price it slightly less, is that I’ll earn elite miles on those flights… I could even qualify for Alaska status without ever flying Alaska or purchasing a fare.
Recap
The merger between Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines is a game changer for travelers looking to boost their miles and save on flights by unlocking a way to combine miles, and ultimately seed your Alaska account with multiple Hawaiian/Alaska accounts.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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