Several churners jumped on the opportunity to earn Hawaiian miles after their merger with Alaska Airlines. I decided to apply for the Hawaiian Airlines credit card which earns 70K miles bonus after spending $2000 USD in 3 months. We have 3 players in our household and luckily all of us got instant approval from Barclay. I just Googled for the Hawaiian credit card offer and 70K bonus came up without any referral links.
My goal with the Hawaiian & Alaska household accounts
I wanted to merge all our miles into a single account to make it easier for redemptions. Before the merger, it would have cost me money to move Alaskan miles from one account to the other. The Hawaiian account makes it very easy to merge and transfer miles to the Alaskan account and there are no fees involved as long as you hold their credit card (see images below).
Moving Hawaiian miles from other members’ accounts to your account
Once the miles are posted to your account, you can go to this webpage (link) and initiate transfers from your account to another account.
I repeated the above process again for the second household account.
Transferring my wife’s Alaska miles to her Hawaiian account and then to mine
You must visit this page (link), choose the program you want, and log-in to the program to initiate the transfer (see images below).
Transferring my Hawaiian Miles to my Alaska account
I finally moved all my newly accumulated Hawaiian miles to my Alaska account (see image below).
My Hawaiian account activity
Conclusion
Hawaiian and Alaska merger brings some interesting aspects to the points game like the ability to move Amex MR points to Hawaiian (must pay excise tax offset fee) and transfer them as Alaska miles. If you’re a credit card holder, Hawaiian’s allows you to share miles freely between accounts. I encourage interested readers to make use of this easy 70K Hawaiian miles earning opportunity by opening a Hawaiian Airlines credit card while the offer is still available.