FlyerTalk Forums - Which CC to get to fly to Hawaii?

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Originally Posted by tallenwa (Post 19675389)

Thanks Pokee and guv1976.
My main concern is transferring 100k UR points then not getting the seats. But that's park of the process, so I want to make sure I've got it down.
If I go to the AS website and put the dates in (eg. 7/11-7/17), check "use points" and the fare shows "supersaver/choice", how do I know how many supersaver seats are available? The "seats" tab doesn't differentiate.

When I checked availability from SEA-OGG for my family at alaskaair.com, I searched liked I would for booking regular tickets (put in my origin/destination, dates, and for 2 adults and 3 children), but just checked 'use miles', as you did. I did the same when I booked two seats recently from YVR-LAX. It checks availability for all travellers, so if you put in 5 people and there are only 2 super-saver fares yet, the super saver fares won't show up in your search results. So in my searches, sometimes I'd put the 'max' travellers in (which is 7 people) to see which flights had the max amount of availability - and that worked to filter out some flights that only had a few seats left, and may be gone by the time I got around to booking. Hope that makes sense!

Best to do your research first checking availability before transferring the points. Availability looks to be there on Super Saver 11 months in advance, but no direct flights (which means extra segments and a lot more points if using Avios). Hope it works out for you! I am not sure it's going to work out for me, since I will likely be trying to book 5 people (single segment is all I will be able to afford), and they appear to be snapped up the day the seats are released. :( I am convinced single segment, super saver Seattle-Hawaii flights are probably the hardest flight to redeem on points on AS, because they're the best deal going when booking through BA...