I believe you can also use ANA miles from West Coast (LAX) to PPT on Hawaiian Airlines for 55K R/T (85K for business class).

How do you get miles transferred to Korean Airlines? Are we talking about Thank You, UR, SPG?

UR

150K gets you two tickets from LAX - PPT.

30K of priority club a night for Moorea intercontinental
50K of PC a night for BOB intercontinental

You can go with Delta/AF miles too from LAX, costs more than 75K per person return though. not sure how much exactly. Also AF's flight doesn't go daily, so you are a bit more limited on dates.
AA (buying air tahiti nui) arrives at night. so you have to stay at Tahiti your first night, but it leaves at night, so you don't have to stay your last night.
AF arrives during day so you can skip your first night and go straight to another island, but leaves at 8am, so you have to stay the night before on Tahiti.. so works out the same.

Sounds like two one-ways would be perfect, if you could only book a one-way for 37,500 on Delta, which you can't.

Thanks but ANA is known to tag on heavy fuel surcharges, can anyone confirm if they attach or make up YQ on Hawaiian Airlines flight from the US to PPT?

Thanks-Tahiti Here We Come (again)
 

Thanks to all. Based upon your suggestion I have just booked my 4 night AXON award at the Hilton on Moorea using points (HHonors Card, 2x Hawaiian Airline Cards with point transfer to Hilton), Business Class from JFK-PPT (Citibank AA 75,000 x4), as well as a pretty expensive interisland flight from PPT-Rangiora paid for with the Chase Sapphire points/dollars (we were targeted for the 70,000 points offer x2).

Still spending a lot as we have a Paul Gauguin 10 night cruise and 6 nights to pay for on Rangiora but this is spectacular.

Congrats medic. How far out did you book? Did you find the 2 business seats open on the 2 flight day?

Flights
 

I used expert flyer to watch for availability booking exactly 330 days out when they opened. It looked like they only released two business class seats per flight. I made the outbound 3 days before I really wanted to travel and kept moving it each day as availability came through. I was on the phone with AA at 4am to do this.

For the return I reserved about 3 days before I really wanted to return and again moved it each day finally settling on one extra day in Tahiti. With 4 nights per cruise on Moorea and 6 post cruise on Rangiora I had some flexibility.

I have flown ATN twice during the past two years. Once in business, not bad, and once in coach. Coach in ATN is one of the worst products in existence. The are rests only go up about 2/3 of the way, leg room is non existent, and the seats are hard as a rock. I spent the overnight flit standing in the aisle and swore I would never do that again. Now I am 6'4" tall so shorter people may not have an issue.

If you plan this right you can easily do 4 nights on Moorea, 4 on Bora Bora, all at the Hilton from the East Coast for less than $1,000 per person including the inter island air fare, ferry and one night as needed on Tahiti (Fare Suisse). This would include breakfast. Excursions, other meals and drinks extra.

Do not forget resort Food and clothing is expensive. Tahiti food trucks at port are a great place to have a cheap meal

Did you happen to notice if the placeholder seats you booked were returned to award inventory by TN after you cancelled them? Some airlines (QF is among the offenders) offer very limited award seat inventory, then, once booked and cancelled, these seats aren't often returned to the award inventory. So booking a placeholder date with no intention of using it can mean that those seats will be wasted and nobody will get to use them.

From my experience, TN award seats cancellations are returned to the award inventory - so no harm done.

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When I cancelled one reservation the seats were available in inventory in approximately 15 minutes.

Looking at heading to Argentina via TYO and PPT heading:

PDX-SFO-TYO-PPT-IPC-SCL-MDZ-SCL-LAX-PDX

150k AA on an explorer ticket.

Anyone know about availability from NRT-PPT via TN? Might be hard as it looks like they only fly that route M and Sat. You can route TYO-HNL-PPT also but neither comes up on the BA/QF website.

I have no clue why anyone would want to spend 4 nights in Bora Bora... Especially for someone who went to FP before...
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