Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
That's a pretty old thread, from the time where the only AQ awards were intra-island. There now exist AQ awards from the mainland to Hawaii (35K in Y; 60K in F). So, the award would include UA travel to the gateway (such as OAK).
While you are right at that at that time the only listed ones were inter-island, the mainland-Hawaii partner awards on AQ were in fact available even then. I did two of them a couple of years before the date of that thread. Their availability at that time was never posted on UA afair.
I actually have raised the question more than once in the past (that was just the first thread search brought up) about whether UA would include a flight to the AQ gateway for mainland-Hawaii travel. If so, it would open up Hawaii award redemption options.
Be interesting for someone to try to claim an AQ partner award for, say, HNL-OGG-HNL, and then ask for a UA flight to the HNL "gateway"
