I just got off the phone with an agent, as I am trying this exact route (either in two chunks, SFO-HNL or JFK-HNL... or the same, SFO-NAR or JFK-NAR), and it was useless. There was nothing.

I haven't used points before, except as gifts from family members, and somewhat chalked it up to my having done something wrong. But I just posted a while thread about this and joined this forum to try to figure it out.

This isn't normal, right? It cost me $90+ to sign up for this card, it says there are no "blackout dates," but there are also none available that I can see, at all, and I started looking online last December for June flights?

Is this pointless? How can I use my miles?

Here is the thread I just posted before seeing that there was a forum just for Hawaiian that really lays it out: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...mine-what.html

Help, if anyone has any ideas! I am flexible and willing to backtrack a bit or do weird travel things to redeem my miles.