You’ll be able to redeem Qantas Points for Hawaiian Airlines flights from tomorrow, as Qantas and Hawaiian Airlines commence their much-anticipated partnership earlier than expected.
It comes as Qantas’ budget carrier Jetstar prepares to end its services to Hawaii after 19 years.
Here’s what you can expect from the new partnership between Qantas and Hawaiian Airlines…
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Classic Reward seats available to book online
Qantas says that its frequent flyers will be able to redeem their points for Classic Reward seats across the Hawaiian Airlines network from Thursday. We’ve confirmed with Qantas that these seats will be available to book on the Qantas website.
Hawaiian Airlines operates from Honolulu to Sydney and Auckland. It also has many intra-island flights and services from Hawaii to the US mainland, Cook Islands, Tahiti, American Samoa, Japan and South Korea.
It offers two cabin classes on all flights, with Economy and Business on international flights. On domestic routes, Hawaiian sells its premium cabin as “First Class” – but there’s no difference in the actual seats.
It remains to be seen how much Classic Reward availability there really is for Qantas Frequent Flyer members to book on the key routes between Sydney, Auckland and Honolulu. In our experience, Hawaiian tends to release reward seats on its long-haul routes only a few months out from departure. There tends to be more reward seats available to Honolulu from Auckland than from Sydney.
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Bilateral codeshare partnership
Qantas and Hawaiian Airlines have already launched a bilateral codeshare partnership as well. You can now book Hawaiian Airlines flights with a “QF” flight number on selected services within the Hawaiian islands, as well as from Honolulu to mainland USA.
These flights are only available to book in conjunction with a Qantas flight between Australia and Honolulu. Qantas is not codesharing on Hawaiian’s Sydney-Honolulu or Auckland-Honolulu routes.
Booking a QF codeshare allows Qantas Frequent Flyer members to earn points and status credits at the same rate that would normally apply to Qantas’ own flights.
Hawaiian Airlines has also placed its “HA” code on various Qantas domestic routes to/from Sydney.
Hawaiian Airlines preparing to join Oneworld alliance
The Hawaiian airline is preparing to join the Oneworld alliance in 2026. Once this happens, Qantas Frequent Flyer members will be able to earn points and status credits on all Hawaiian Airlines flights (even when not booking a QF codeshare).
Qantas Silver, Gold, Platinum and Platinum One members can also look forward to receiving reciprocal Oneworld status benefits once Hawaiian Airlines is a full Oneworld member.
Hawaiian Airlines is currently in the final stages of merging with Alaska Airlines, which is already a Oneworld member. The Alaska Air Group will retain Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines as distinct, separate brands.
Velocity’s partnership with Hawaiian Airlines ends on 30 June
Velocity Frequent Flyer has previously advised its members that Virgin Australia will terminate its existing partnership with Hawaiian Airlines on 30 June 2025. This means you still have a few weeks left to redeem Velocity Points for Hawaiian flights.
Overall, it seems that Hawaiian’s new partnership will be more rewarding for Qantas Frequent Flyer members than it has been for Velocity members.
Currently, Velocity’s partnership with Hawaiian is really only limited to earning points, earning status credits and redeeming points – something that cannot even be done online. Virgin Australia no longer codeshares on Hawaiian Airlines flights. In fact, there are no additional benefits at all for Velocity Gold or Platinum members flying Hawaiian.
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