May 28, 2025
Round-Trip Tickets to Hawaii for 20K Miles
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Booking round-trip tickets to Hawaii for 20K miles might seem too good to be true, but it’s not! It can be a little trickier to book these flights than most other award flights, but if you’re up to the challenge, your effort can pay off with a lot of miles saved. Are you up for it?
We’re talking about booking United flights on Turkish Airlines. Turkish Airlines has a sweet spot in its award chart that means flights from the US mainland to Hawaii only cost 10K Turkish miles one-way. You have to book the tickets with Turkish miles, but you actually fly on a United plane. Both United and Turkish are members of of the Star Alliance, which makes this possible.
Luckily, two banks—Capital One and Citi—have Turkish Airlines as a travel partner! So if you have the card_name, the card_name, or the Citi Strata Premier℠, you’re all set. Once you find award availability, you can transfer those points to Turkish Airlines.
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Step One
Look on United Airlines for a saver award from the airport you are departing from to Hawaii. I am looking at Denver to Maui. You can see that 3/9 and 3/10 have saver flights. (Search tip: Be sure not to log in to your United MileagePlus account while you’re searching if you have one of the United cards that shows you increased award-flight availability. Any flights that you can see only because of your cardholder status won’t be available to book through Turkish’s program, so it can give you a false positive.)
Step Two
Sign in to your Turkish account or set up one now. Be sure to pick the tab for Star Award Ticket in the top-left corner and put in your search info.
Step Three
This is the screen I saw after I hit the “Search Flights” button.
Note that on the United site, it didn’t show the direct flight as a saver flight but it appeared on Turkish!
Step Four
Complete steps one and three for your return flights. To book for other people you’re traveling with, it isn’t as straightforward. You will want to add them to your Turkish Miles&Smiles account as your companions before booking your ticket, and you will need to call Turkish Airlines to complete the booking.
Transfer points and miles ONLY when you have verified that there are enough seats for everyone traveling. Remember, once they are transferred, they remain in Turkish Airlines’ program. Transfers are a one-way transaction; you cannot move them back to your credit-card account once they’re with an airline.
Book the tickets and pat yourself on the back—you just got one of the best deals there is for a trip to Hawaii!🎉
Turkish miles got us to Maui from Denver.
Bottom Line
The very best redemption to Hawaii has got to be using Turkish miles to fly a United flight for 20,000 miles round-trip. A round-trip ticket to Hawaii for 20K miles—unbelievable! It takes a little time to search for dates that will work, and you definitely need to be flexible or have good luck, but it is an amazing redemption if you can find it. Let us know how successful you are booking those round-trip tickets to Hawaii for 20K miles.
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Hi there! Thank you so much for your post it’s very helpful! I am currently trying to book a Hawaii trip through Turkish air but I’m having a hard time distinguishing if a united flight is a saver seat and of course Google is no help! Can you shed any insight? I’ve checked the united site and filtered by mileage rewards and found lots of options but I don’t know if they qualify as a saver seat? They don’t come up when I search on Turkish air. I am trying to fly from the East coast (VA) so most flights have a stop!
I found no availability flying from Newark to OGG no matter what dates I put in. The flight was available on United.
I found no availability from Newark to OGG no matter what day I put in.
This last year I was able to do it twice. I have tried to duplicate it for two trips coming up and have had no luck. I am wondering if it is harder to do now – we will have to ask our readers!
Could you not just transfer the points from your city thank you and book online? Or do you have to have Turkish do it?
Turkish is hard – impossible to book online. You have to work through Turkish on the phone or through email.
So did you transfer the Cap One miles to Turkish air first? Or contacted them and they took the directly out of your Cap One account? Thanks!
No, they have to be in Turkish Air. But NEVER transfer until you have found the flights – they are one-way transfers! Once in Turkish, they stay in Turkish!
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It looks like just a one way (not round trip) was booked for 15,000. I ask because they are telling me the same thing when I contact them
We booked roundtrip for 15K. I am having a harder time finding it this year.
Can you use points for minor tickets too?? I want to fly my and my husband and 2 children using my points. Is this possible?