May Day is Lei Day in Hawai’i Nei, and as has been the case for years now, Hawaiian Airlines is running a sweepstakes! However, this time you can enter to win 200k HawaiianMiles if you live almost anywhere Hawaiian flies! Moreover, each entry region will have multiple grand prize winners!
To my knowledge, this is the first time Hawaiian Airlines has held a contest like this. Usually, contests are region specific, and, lately, have a social media component to them. Not so this time around, as Hawaiian seeks to celebrate Lei Day in a grand way!
Enter to Win 200k HawaiianMiles
As I’ve already mentioned in this post, this Lei Day, and throughout the month of May, you can enter to win 200k HawaiianMiles! However, unlike Lei Day sweepstakes from years past, this year’s contest is open to anyone at least 18 years old living in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, all Australian states and territories except for South Australia, South Korea, Japan, and New Zealand. Better yet, all you have to do to enter this year is to complete and submit the short form at https://www.hawaiianairlines.com/31DaysofLeiSweepstakes
Yep, that’s it! No Instagram or Facebook tie-in this time around! That said, there are multiple entry periods this time around, which are:
- May 1, 2024, at 9 am HST to May 7, 2024, at 11:59 pm HST
- May 8, 2024, at 12 am HST to May 14, 2024 at 11:59 pm HST
- May 15, 2024, at 12 am HST to May 21, 2024 at 11:59 pm HST
- May 22, 2024, at 12 am HST to May 31, 2024 at 11:59 pm HST
Four winners, one from each region, will be drawn every week. Winners will be notified by email and will be listed on the sweepstakes entry page. However, in the likely event that you do not win in the first entry period you enter, you’ll automatically be entered into subsequent entry periods. In fact, you can only enter once. Subsequent entries will not be entered into the weekly drawings, so just do yourself a favor and enter by May 7, and don’t enter again.
Now, it goes without saying that your chances of winning are fairly slim. However, given that 20 winners will be selected, four total from each region, your chance are four times higher than most of Hawaiian’s contest.
What Will 200k HawaiianMiles Get You?
If you enter to win 200k HawaiianMiles and get lucky, what can you do with this number of miles? Well, here are some examples:
- West Coast – Hawaii
- Economy: up to 10 one-way award tickets
- First Class: up to 5 one-way award tickets
- North America Central – Hawaii
- Economy: up to 8 one-way award tickets
- First Class: up to 5 one-way award tickets
- East Coast – Hawaii
- Economy: up to 6 one-way award tickets
- First Class: up to 5 one-way award tickets
- Asia/Oceania – Hawaii
- Economy: up to 5 one-way award tickets
- Business Class: up to 3 one-way award tickets
- South Pacific – Hawaii
- Economy: up to 7 one-way award tickets
- Business Class: up to 4 one-way award tickets
Enter to Win 200k HawaiianMiles, Final Thoughts
Really, 200k HawaiianMiles is a nice chunk of miles. As you can see, provided you can get base redemption fares, you can get some serious travel out of this potential windfall. That said, West Coast one-way award fares can go for nearly 100k miles, so you have to be vigilant when making your booking. Personally, I’d use the miles to get some business class flights on Hawaiian’s new 787s when they get deployed on longer routes.
Of course, what makes this contest a bit more different this year is the looming merger with Alaska Airlines. Should Alaska’s purchase close, those 200k HawaiianMiles will turn into 200k Alaska Mileage Plan miles, which can then be used with any Oneworld partner airline. That opens a whole world of possibilities, and could make these winnings all the more valuable.