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Help with programs and flights Rome - NYC - HNL

Hi,
I have a trip planned for early June going one way from Rome to NYC and then NYC to HNL one week later.

This is what I have to work with:
55k British Avios
70k United miles
70k Chase UR points

Looking at cash flights, I found $250 for Air Berlin, Rome to NYC with 1 connection - which seems unbeatable. And then $520 for a direct flight from NY to HNL. So the value seems a lot better for using miles on the NY-HNL flight - however, the best I saw for that was 45k UA miles.

I heard it's possible to do layovers with UA award redemptions, is that right? Is it possible for me to get decent value on economy/business/first award redemption from Rome to NY to HNL?

Or are there any transfer partners with Chase for the NY-HNL flight? I was used to paying 17,500 with AA, but have few AA miles left now. 45k for a domestic economy reward with UA seems pretty bad in comparison.

Any help/tips/thoughts on how to plan this would be appreciated. I'm actually starting in Dubai before Rome, if it's possible to do 2 layovers along the way to HNL.

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There are no free stopovers on UA's one-way awards, only on their roundtrip awards.

If you can find SAAver award seats on AA/AS nonstops from JFK/EWR to LAX/PHX/SAN/SEA/SFO, and from there to HNL, then you can get that redemption for 25,000 BA Avios (12,500 per flight), with or without a stopover on the West Coast. AA award flights can be booked directly on ba.com; AS award flights require a call to BAEC.

You can search aa.com for SAAver award seats on both AA and AS; if you find the seats you need, you can then book them via BA.

Wow - thanks for the clarification on how the UA program works, and also for the tip on the AA/BA award!

If you're eventually going to go from HNL to NYC (and Delta decides they want to play nice...) then you could get a roundtrip on KE for 25,000 UR. Out of curiosity I took a quick sweep of the United website too (since they have a nonstop EWR-HNL) and saver availability doesn't look good on any route for all but the first couple days of June.