Maximizing trip miles
 

I will be traveling R/T from San Diego to Hawaii (HA) and Japan (NWA) in March. I am a member in NWA and HA's FF programs (zero miles each), Silver in Delta's, and member in HHonors. How would you get the best bang for the miles?

If you're elite in any program, you'd want to credit to that program. So you can credit your NW flight to DL. These may be the same airline sometime in the future too, if the merger happens. I don't know anything about who you can credit HA miles to, other than their own program. Perhaps Slippahs or other HI folk can help out on that one.

Unfortunately...
 

You can't credit HA mainland flights to any of their partners (NW, AA, CO) because the partners have their own flights that compete on those routes. HA inter-island flights can be credited to the partners, and HA flights to the South Pacific (Tahiti, Samoa, Sydney) can be credited to NW.

cvn74n2,

Welcome to FT.

To the rest of FT,

Does this mean that cvn could credit the HNL to Japan NWA flight to Delta?

Of Course...all revenue paying NW domestic and Internationally operated flights can be credited to Skymiles or Onepass or a myriad of other international frequent flier programs....thats the whole reason why NW is a part of the SkyTeam alliance.