Yet Another Incredible Use Of Chase Ultimate Rewards Points: Transfer To Korean For Flights On Alaska, Hawaiian, Or Emirates!

Good job researching. Now we need to know if to book on Korean is as easy as on AA or as difficult as it used to be on Lan.

@al613:
Thanks.

From my phone calls today there was little hold time, and although there was a little bit of a language barrier, they were very accommodating with several requests and quoting miles+taxes without even asking for a Korean mileage number.

Now what will happen tomorrow when hundreds of people start transferring points to Korean and calling to book awards?
Your guess is as good as mine!

Dan!
Going to Dubai?

Hi Dan,

I’m very new to this mileage thing, and I appreciate your posts!.

I have a question, I have almost 60,000 miles on a chase sapphire preferred with the first year almost ending soon (annual fee coming soon…) plus I have about 5000 ultimate rewards points on several chase cards, What would be the best thing to do since I plan to travel NYC to London by the end of August and would like to connect to Israel (5-6 days) or before or after the London trip.

I would appreciate telling me my best options.

Thanks a lot

@Fan of Dan:
Dubai isn’t really on my hit list, but the Maldives are.

@Abe:
You need 80,000 points to go from NYC-London-Israel-NYC on United or one of their partners.
Time to open another card!

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the great post.

Is there any way to get a delta or klm flight using chase ultimate reward points?

I’m looking for tickets to Amsterdam, and United has 10 hour layovers and no direct flights.

Thanks.

@Mordy:
Korean can book you but those flights will likely entail fuel surcharges.
If you find out how much they are through Korean then post a comment here.

jfk – ams 50,00 points and $600 charge.

how many miles from nyc to Tahiti on Hawaiian?

30k?

@Mordy:
On Delta or KLM?

@tt:
Nope, but I already wrote what it would be in the post.

you got a sapphire preferred master card link!?

@Markie:
Yup 😀

How did u select non-stop on aa.com when trink JFK-HNL. I dont see the option even in calendar view.

@Abe: transfer all your chase points to your sapphire card and have them all in one account (its easy just go to combine points) and then if you have 80k and united has availability then transfer them in.

how many points required JFK – TLV with korean??

@JPP:
Looks like it only starts working in September and on.

@Isaac:
Yup.

Or apply for the United card, currently you can match it to 55K plus $50!
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/21130

@Hello:
The fuel surcharges will make it not worthwhile.
Transfer to United and you’ll have no fuel surcharges.

Thanks dan!

Does anyone know whether points transfer from Ultimate rewards to Korean air are instant or not?

Do the non-SkyTeam partners mix with SkyTeam partners? I don’t live in a city served by HA or AS. Would I need to buy a revenue ticket to get to LAX or SEA or wherever?

Dan

Could i do lax-sea(stop)-yvr-lax for 20k rt? Can you do open jaw and stopover with Alaska?

I am flying on Korean in a month. Do I just accept their skypass miles or can I (should I?) give them my Delta # (don’t have many miles).

I expect to pick up the Sapphire Pref card later this year. I am ultimately trying to build up Marriott points for an trip reward (hotel + miles). Can I transfer Korean to Sapphire to Marriott?

Sorry if this is basic stuff. Still learning.

Does Korean Air allow one-ways?

AS flies from DCA to LAX and SEA, connecting to Hawaii.

Hawaiian will start non-stops from NYC to HNL in a couple months on sweet new planes.

At 30K rt either is a great bargain to Hawaii.

@raj:
It’s instant but you can only make 1 transfer per day.

@MJL:
I doubt they’ll mix as they have separate award charts.

@Jo:
It’s not Alaska’s rules, it’s up to Korean. The page says a stopover is permitted but doesn’t mention an open jaw.
I would guess that it’s not permitted, but I’d love to be proven wrong!

@Dave:
You can’t transfer Korean to Sapphire. It’s a one-way street.

@Asen:
No.

@Tassojunior:
Sure is!
Now let’s see who will be able to get Korean to book the craziest Alaska stopover award for the fewest amount of miles!

Very interested in the Korean/Hawaii deal from NY, but naive and confused. You say you found the Hawaiian Airline flight by looking for the only non-stop. But if I’m willing to do stopovers/connections in order to get a 30,000 mile trip, how do I know which Hawaiian Airlines flight have eligible seats available for any particular set of dates? Does Korean Airlines charge to call and just ask about a set of dates? And do they allow a stopover. Thanks so much!

Non-stop Hawaiian JFK-HNL for 60K rt in First Class.

You NY’ers, especially the honeymoon types, should be eating that up.

Awesome..although I’m a little confused if you don’t live in NYC or Houston..so if I am leaving from RDU does it cost more miles to use to go RDU-JFK-HNL? Do most people just buy the ticket to JFK (In this case example I could alsouse 9000 BA miles RT to get to NYC?(lga).. Thanks

Great post Dan!
Two questions:
–can you get a one-way AS award SEA-DCA and what would it cost in economy and first
–I have an aspirational trip to go to Maldives as well. What would be the points and cost for Emirate from the DC area in business and first (assume at least part of trip would be in A380)
Thanks

@jo:
Korean doesn’t allow connections/stopovers on Hawaiian, nor are there even any connections available from JFK to HNL on Hawaiian.
If you want to book a partial AA and partial Hawaiian ticket it would need to be with AA miles.

@ILoveURPoints:
Correct, you have to get a Hawaiian or Alaska air gateway city.
Using BA miles to get to a city that they serve (which you can find on their route map) is a great idea.

@silver springer:
One-ways are not allowed by Korean.
If you want a one-way you should use AA miles.

You would need to add the cost to fly from the US-UAE (70/140/210) and then UAE-Maldives (35/70/105).
If you have a lot of Starpoints it would be more cost effective to use those to transfer to Emirates where you wouldn’t need as many miles.

Dan – I want to do LAX-SEA(stop few days)-YVR(Destination)-LAX
Is that possible?? Thanks.

@joseph:
Absolutely!
Check for nonstop availability on each of those routes separately on AA.com and then call Korean to book.

i found about these redemptions last year and made some posts on FT but had no response to anyone who had actually attempted these redemptions. when i read the Korean website i recall it said you had to go into a Korean Air service center to book partner flights. that seemed ridiculous to me, so im glad to see you can book over the phone. i am most interested in Alaska from west coast to Hawaii. i rec’d a fairly decent targeted cc offer from Korean last year and that is when I started lookin around for more info.

Is the Chase Sapphire preferred MasterCard made of metal now? I saw somewhere you said they converted your card but it was lacking the Metal that the preferred Visa was made out of. Let me know weather I should convert the card. I just got both the regular sapphire and sapphire preferred both as Visa’s.

@Daniel:
It is made of metal.
They had mistakenly downgraded me to the non-preferred version which isn’t metal and then they upgraded me to the preferred metal version again.

@Dan: Alsome so I will be converting to the preferred World MasterCard now I assume I should wait till I reach my 3,000 in spend first and my 50k bonus comes thru because I am half way there already. I am so happy this summer I will be renting a Car in Israel B”H” now I don’t have to pay F.T? fees on my rental car while taking advantage of the World M.C. Insurance. Which insurance can I decline and which one will they charge me for? fYI its at Budget or Thrifty I have reservations at both the same prices this way I’m covered.

@Daniel: You can decline CDW but they will force you to buy liability at about $15 per day.
Did you ask Noach if he can beat your quote?

I want to travel on Korean using Hawaiian points. Does Hawaiian’s business class (only first class option) translate to Korean’s prestige class or first class? These are code shared flights on Hawaiian’s website, but operated by Korean Air.

Want to accrue miles to get to airline tickets from CLE or CAK exclusively, focusing on tickets to Israel. Which credit card or combination of cards is the best to get?

Dan, is there a good way to check availability of Alaskan award tickets? I attempted to call Korean and they stated there was no availability for my requested dates. However, when I check on the Alaskan site their lowest fare shows available.

@Joshua:
AA.com

Hey @Dan:

Sorry if it s a dumb question. Are you saying I transfer my UR points to Korean and then buy an award ticket from Korean while the actual flight is on Alaska for example?

I have ~55K UR points and ~5K starwood points and would like to buy round trip tickets from San Diego to Hawaii for me and my wife. Do you think it’s possible? I plan to travel in March which is the cheapest time I think.

Thanks.

@Mohammad:
Correct, call Korean to book.

Though from SAN you would be better off transferring to BA as they charge only 25K round-trip on Alaska to Hawaii.
Call BA to book that.

@Dan: Do I need to created to BA rewards accounts and transfer 25K to each? and buy two tickets separately?

@Mohammad:
You can transfer 50K to one BA account and book them both from there.

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Hi There –

I recently flew Business with Emirate and got 40k Skyward miles, I have about 65k miles with Chase Sapphire Preferred. How can I transfer those to Emirates ? Do I have to xfer them to Korean ? in that case would Korean will be away of my 40k miles currently in Skyward with Emirate ?

Thanks!!!