Hawaiian Airlines, Virgin America forge frequent flyer partnership, code share pact 

Hawaiian Airlines, Virgin America forge frequent flyer partnership, code share pact

Nov 15, 2012 (Menafn - AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX) --US carriers Hawaiian Airlines HA and Virgin America said they have inked a new cooperative marketing agreements covering frequent flyer programme partnering and a code share agreement.

Under the deal, members of HawaiianMiles, the Hawaiian Airlines loyalty program, are able to redeem their miles for award travel on all Virgin America routes, and members of Virgin America's Elevate frequent flyer program can now redeem Elevate points for flights on all routes flown by Hawaiian.

The two airlines also announced that Hawaiian Airlines has placed its two-letter booking code on Virgin America flights to Boston, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Washington D.C.(IAD); New York (JFK); Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Chicago; Philadelphia; Portland, Oregon; Seattle and San Francisco.

This agreement, only the second code share agreement for California-based Virgin America, now offers seamless booking and one-stop check-in on a single ticket for guests traveling between Hawai'i and multiple Virgin America destinations in the U.S.

Both Hawaiian Airlines and Virgin America will check bags through to guests' final destinations and will issue boarding passes at initial check in for connecting flights on Virgin America and Hawaiian.

HawaiianMiles members are able to earn mileage on all code share flights covered by the agreement. Hawaiian is the third airline partner added to join Virgin America's Elevate program and the first Elevate airline partner outside the Virgin airline family Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia were already Elevate partners.

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