Update 01/18/18. Bonus has been extended until January 31st, 2018.
Reposting on November 20th, 2017 because there is a new working link. This time it’s valid until December 31st, 2017 according to this page. Minimum spend requirement is now $3,000 instead of $1,000. Hat tip to reader Kat
Reposting because there is now a direct link courtesy of Travel is Free.
The Offer
- Receive 50,000 Hawaiian Airline miles when you spend $3,000 or more within the first 90 days of account opening on the Barclaycard Hawaiian Airlines credit card
How To Get The Offer
- Search for a flight on https://www.hawaiianairlines.com
- Make sure you do not log into your account
- Enter any travel dates and click continue
- Fill out the information (doesn’t matter what it is, as the offer doesn’t pre-populate) they request until you get to the payment page
- Click credit/debit as the payment option
- Offer will appear on the right hand side (see above)
Card Benefits & Details
- Annual fee of $89 is not waived the first year
- Card earns at the following rate:
- 2x miles on all Hawaiian Airlines purchase
- 1x miles on all other purchases
- No foreign transaction fees
- ShareMiles, ability to share miles with friends & family HawaiianAirlines.com
- Discounted Award Travel
- Get $100 companion discount off one coach companion ticket for roundtrip travel between Hawaii and North America on Hawaiian Airlines on each account anniversary upon payment of annual fee
- Earn 5,000 annual bonus miles 5,000 bonus miles every anniversary year you make $10,000 or more in purchases with your card
Our Verdict
This offer comes and goes, it was last available up until December of last year. I’m not a massive fan of Hawaiian miles and I also don’t love how the annual fee isn’t waived the first year, but still 50,000 miles for only $1,000 spend is a pretty compelling offer for a lot of people. You can get flights for 35,000 miles round trip with the card from mainland USA to Hawaii, but there isn’t a lot of space available. Another good use of the miles is for inter island flights in Hawaii, they come out at 7,500 miles per one way trip.
You can also transfer the miles to Hilton at a rate of 1:1.5, but I don’t find Hilton points to be particularly useful so I wouldn’t recommend that. Before applying I’d recommend reading these 24 things you should know about Barclaycard credit cards, it should also answer any common questions you might have.
Feel free to share what you think the best use of Hawaiian miles is in the comments below and whether you think this is a good deal or not.
Hat tip to flightmedic on Flyertalk via Lazy Travelers.
I am pulling the 50k offer for $1k spend not $3k!
https://imgur.com/a/eK4b1
Same process as you described to get it.
I applied again and like 2 months ago, got instantly denied. The only difference is there’s no hard inquiry on my Transunion this time.
NO need to do dummy booking it’s right on the main page
Has anyone ever seen JFK-HNL or vv available for an F award for 40k miles one way? like EVER?
Nope !!! Prob their highest load
I haven’t seen it become available ever. It’s hard enough to find 40k for West Coast – Hawaii so I doubt they’ll make it available for less than 80k.
August, 2015. I snagged one and never seen it since. Couldn’t get it on the return.
Anyone been successful in recon a Barclay card for “too many new accounts opened.”
No success in my experience.
My experience when I called to recon, it was done by Bank of Hawaii rep, not Barclay. The rep asked me why I applied for the card. I told him,”I just came back from Oahu, love it, and want to come back” 😀 Which was true, and he agreed with me.
Had the same issue with JetBlue card.
Hey Doc… found this
https://www.boh.com/apps/hawaiian-airlines-mastercard?HID=HAL-40k-1711-CC-special
*Offer subject to credit approval. If at the time of your application you do not meet the credit criteria previously established for this offer, or the income you report is insufficient based on your obligations, we may not be able to open an account for you. This offer is available to new cardmembers only. The annual fee will be waived the first year and then automatically bill to your account every twelve months after account opening. This offer is available through the in-branch application and may not be accessible elsewhere. For information about rates, fees, the annual fee, other costs, the rewards program information and benefits associated with the use of the credit card program, please see in-branch application or branch representative for details.>/b>
Interesting trend of Barclay having increased miles on 3 of their major US airline cards as of now: 60k on AA Aviator Red,60k on JetBlue Plus and 50k on Hawaiian. Plus, their Lufthansa Miles & More is also 50k miles right now.
I applied and was approved. It listed $1,500 over 90 days, not the $1,000 listed above
Shows $1,000 for me? Did you use the link in the post?
It’s now $3,000 for those reading
If it wasnt for that $89 AF, I would bite….Although the card is fully churnable….
I had this card and I was able to waive the initial $89 fee (2015) and the second year fee (2016). I had to write a letter to Barclays in 2015 (but SM and phone call might work) and they credited me $89. In 2016, the annual fee was a retention offer. I ended up closing the card, but that’s another issue.
Per Reddit, you can get Maui Jim shades for 25k miles and they apply to all shades, even prescription, I think.
Never had them, but a friend does and they are pretty pricey. Potentially could get the $400 ones and re-sell or just keep.
can you link to the conversation on reddit? I can’t find it.
I confirmed with a maui jim rep via chat on the maui jim website that the coupon you receive from Hawaiian Airlines is good only for non prescription sunglasses. Here is a link to the Hawaiian Air website detailing how it is 25,000 miles for a pair of sunglasses. You have to go to a certain website…I don’t think you can redeem the coupon for any pair as the most expensive pair was only around $325 or so and Maui Jim has more expensive sunglasses than that.
http://hawaiianair.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13/~/redeem-hawaiianmiles-with-our-partners-%28non-flight%29