If you want to stopover someplace else, consider booking
separate award tickets.
You must take the next connecting flight onwards or your award will be priced as two
separate award tickets, but this can buy you an overnight stop in Fiji before heading onwards.
Then, the only remaining challenge is the flight home from Honolulu, which could be paid for or redeemed as
a separate award ticket.
Not exact matches
It's a
separate site where you can trade in your points for
award travel, pre-sale
tickets to games and concerts, as well as merchandise both digital (audiobooks or music) and tangible (e-readers or electronic accessories).
In this case, both directions were cash (just
separate reservations), but they could also include things like mixing a one - way
award and a one - way cash
ticket.
BA considers these charges to be
separate from the
ticket price, so they'll be added on to
award tickets as well.
Unlike airlines like British Airways, American Airlines has
separate fare codes for upgrades and
award tickets.
Remember, you may find it worthwhile to book a
separate ticket from Seattle, Portland, or elsewhere to begin your
award trip in Vancouver.
Though Air Canada spun off its frequent flyer program Aeroplan years ago, making it a
separate for - profit entity, it is still one of the most valuable ways to travel on
award tickets in the Star Alliance, the largest global airline alliance.
You can get a
separate and more expensive
award ticket rather than the cheaper saver fares, but that may require you to pay standard rates or even buy two
tickets.
Buy a cash
ticket or book a
separate award to the Caribbean, book a Flying Blue
award with a stopover in the U.S. on your way to Hawaii, on your return from Hawaii you'll still be flying on your Flying Blue
award back to the Caribbean (and through the U.S.).
But Iberia Plus still has a
separate award chart for American Airlines, which can save you Amex points should you need a domestic short - haul
ticket.
There was another great suggestion that if American's website is showing 2 seats availability, you can open
separate browsers and book those
award tickets on both American AND US Airways site (and possibly British Airways site also), due to the latency in how the websites talk to each other.
For an
award itinerary taken on 2 or more airlines, of which at least one is a non-oneworld airline partner, please note that a
separate redemption
ticket is required of non-oneworld airline partner (s).
Getting to Los Angeles using Delta miles can be a challenge, but once you reach that gateway (by
award or
separate ticket) I find that more often than not it's possible to put together a premium cabin
award using Delta miles on China Southern.
If there is no Alaska
award space or Alaska doesn't fly to your city, you need a
separate ticket to get to a city where Cathay flies.
Then make a
separate reservation with miles for the 3rd
ticket, provided there is
award availability on the flight.