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If you're earning HawaiianMiles, it's natural to wonder whether those miles will stick around. The good news: Hawaiian Airlines has one of the most generous policies out there. Whether you're a frequent flyer between islands or just racking up points with a co-branded credit card, here’s what you need to know about HawaiianMiles expiration rules — and how to make the most of them.
Do HawaiianMiles Expire?
HawaiianMiles do not expire as long as your account remains open. Hawaiian changed its policy a few years ago to bring it in line with many other US legacy carriers. per the Hawaiian Airlines terms and conditions:
“Effective April 12, 2021 miles accrued by members do not expire. Should a member close their HawaiianMiles account, the miles in the account will be terminated.”
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How To Earn HawaiianMiles
With no expiration threat, you can focus your efforts on accruing and building up a substantial balance of HawaiianMiles without worrying that your miles might expire anytime soon. You can build up your HawaiianMiles mileage balance in all of the following ways:
- Fly with Hawaiian Airlines.
- Fly with a partner airline, including Japan Airlines, JetBlue, Korean Air, and China Airlines.
- Transfer miles between Alaska Mileage Plan and HawaiianMiles.
- Stay at hotels from partner brands like Marriott Bonvoy, The Twin Fin, and Boyd Rewards.
- Collect miles when you rent a car with Avis, Budget, and Payless.
- Spend on the Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite Mastercard® or Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite Business Mastercard®.
- Spend on the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® credit card or Alaska Airlines Visa® Business card — and then transfer your Alaska miles to HawaiianMiles.
- Purchase HawaiianMiles — up to 30,000 miles per transaction and three transactions per week.
- Buy flowers from Teleflora.
- Earn miles from several services, including mortgage and art purchases.
- Shop or dine at partner stores and restaurants.
- Shop at select supermarket brands in Hawaii.
Boosting Your HawaiianMiles Balance
Even though HawaiianMiles do not expire, and you have plenty of options to earn them, you might find yourself a few miles short of your next redemption. Fortunately, you can use transfer partners to top up your balance — whether directly to HawaiianMiles or via Alaska Mileage Plan:
If you are looking to transfer a large number of points to HawaiianMiles, then transferring Membership Rewards points is likely your top choice thanks to 1:1 transfers.
Use AwardWallet to Track Your HawaiianMiles Expiration
Even though HawaiianMiles do not expire, keeping a close eye on your balances still pays. That way, you will know right away when you have enough miles for a redemption. Keeping track of your HawaiianMiles could not be easier, and all you need to do is add your HawaiianMiles account to AwardWallet, and you will then receive timely email reminders about your balance.
To add your account, log into AwardWallet and then link your HawaiianMiles account, and you are set.
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Our Take
HawaiianMiles offer flexibility that frequent travelers can appreciate — especially since your miles won’t expire as long as you keep your account open. That means you can take your time earning miles through flights, credit card spending, hotel stays, and other everyday purchases.
Now that Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines operate under the same umbrella — and allow 1:1 mileage transfers — travelers have more ways than ever to build a HawaiianMiles balance. That includes spending on an Alaska Visa Card or Alaska Business Card, two excellent options for everyday earners.
Combined with HawaiianMiles’ no-expiration policy and plenty of redemption opportunities, it's easier than ever to take accumulate the miles needed for your next island getaway.
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Just remember that “never expire” is something Southwest advertised. While it’s true now, I wouldn’t hoard anything on the basis that it’ll continue to be that same model for good. For someone that transferred a ton of Chase into Southwest for redemptions, I always valued that they’d be good forever, even if the flight got changed etc. So, just be careful!
I signed up for miles and a credit card and I was told that it was good till 2022 I need clarification on that is there a cost for the flight it was told that I would have a free flight if I got 60 thousand miles and signed up for the card can you help me
Nancy – it depends on what flight(s) you are trying to book. After earning the 60,000 miles (you probably need to spend $2,000 in the first 90 days that you have the card, in order to earn this bonus) you have options. Not all flights can be booked for under 60,000 Hawaiian miles. You can take flights within the islands and also fly to the West Coast of the mainland. East Coast flights cost more points and are harder to come by. Flights to Asia and Oceania cost even more. Once you find a flight you want to book with your miles, you will still need to pay some mandatory fees & taxes when making the booking. If you need some more help on this, you can always ask in our Facebook group for Award Travel 101 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/803614252987794
How much mileage do I have in my account. Also my wife’s mileage accumilated up to date. Thank you.
We do not provide such information.
Nice to know that points do not expire. I was debating in my head whether or not to get a Hawaiian Airlines credit card, but knowing that I can keep my points indefinitely makes getting one pretty much risk-free. I have always wanted to visit Hawaii. Hope this pandemic dies down soon.
Even though the non expiration of the miles is a very good perk.
It’s not an ideal programme for me because it does not belong to any global alliance and usually I don’t use also any of its partner as I’m based in Europe.
This is good news since Hawaii has been a hot mess travel wise and I’m sitting on some miles (130k) to bide my time in booking. I live in CA so the miles needed aren’t to high and I do love Hawaii! I have 2 trips planned (Maui for one) and another for Kauai.
Took a few flights to Hawaii on points over the years, was always worried about miles expiring. Nice to know that HA is following suit. Nice not having to worry about losing miles. Thumbs Up.
As someone who is super forgetful, not having expiration dates is a joy to me! the amount of points i’ve let expire throughout my lifetime is embarrassing!
Is Hawaiian airlines a good option to fly through the US? How much do they offer flights to the 48 continental states?
Hawaiian airlines is often overlooked as a potential opportunity to leverage their partner networks; knowing that their points don’t expire is very helpful.
This policy change is excellent news, especially given Hawaiian Airlines’ network of partners and the numerous ways one can earn miles.
Sounds like an excellent decision to me. Bravo Hawaiian Airlines. Sadly, Hawaii is not a destination to which one travels very often, less in this context of a pandemic. That miles do not expire should be the policy of all airlines.
And in the past it was possible earn one point each three search on their bar. But this stopped some years ago.
I don’t know anything about this program. Thanks.
To answer your question, YES!
I think I will do this one as I have not been to Hawaii and want to travel there. Thank you.
So nice to have this reminder about how to keep HA miles from expiring. I like to use HA miles for interisland flights and try to keep a healthy balance always for that purpose.
Thanks for the info!
I use a survey site called Opinions Take Flight to earn miles which keeps my Hawaiianmiles active.
Wow, great tip, I didn’t realize the MileFinder was still working; thanks!
thanks for the info
Aside from flights, what can you redeem your Hawaiian airline miles for?
Car rental, a few hotels, magazines, etc. We don’t recommend redeeming for anything other than flights as the value isn’t great. If you have a few orphaned miles with Hawaiian, the best bet is to transfer them via Points.com to a program you will use. The transfer ratios aren’t great, but it’s better than your miles expiring.
I’ve just joined the Hawaiian Airlines program due to a large purchase with one of their shopping portal partners. (It didn’t earn points with any other airline). Does transferring points from any one of the flexible points currencies also keep your account active?
Yes, transferring points from flexible rewards currencies will extend the life of your miles.
Thanks for the heads up! Booking a flight to hawaii as we speak!