In short,
when searching for award availability, the cost of interisland and North American round - trip tickets will be 2,500 to 5,000 miles less than HawaiianMiles members who don't have a co-branded card.
Things didn't start well when BA.com refused to offer me ANY Iberia flights
when I searched for award availability on the one day I'm free to do this trip.
Not exact matches
One interesting feature of Aeroplan's website is that you can
search for award availability to multiple destinations at once, similar to how you can enter multiple destinations
when looking
for paid tickets with ITA Matrix.
However, Air France / KLM's ability to
search for SkyTeam partner
award space is better as Delta sometimes doesn't show
availability when it actually exists.
When I
searched for availability from the US to Auckland with United on Aeroplan's website, I found a lot of United
award availability for flights 5 + months out and decent
availability for flights only a couple of months out but it wasn't the kind of
availability I liked.
Award availability can be searched on a calendar view in five week increments, and when you select a day with a particular mileage level, you actually see award flights that can be booked for that p
Award availability can be
searched on a calendar view in five week increments, and
when you select a day with a particular mileage level, you actually see
award flights that can be booked for that p
award flights that can be booked
for that price.
Also, every airline releases
award seats at different times, so it is a little tough to predict
when the best time is to
search for availability.
I was able to use their site
for searching availability earlier right now the site keeps giving an error
when searching award availability.