I have tried out the free Hawaiian air miles program for three days now and wanted to give you some feedback. The program works pretty good. My only gripe was that i had to restart my computer after installing their tool bar, other than that it works and it’s the only free miles program i know of. While other companies are discontinuing their rewards program Hawaiian Airlines is making it easier for you to earn and fly.

To use the free Hawaiian air miles program you need to install their toolbar so they can track you searches and spending. You get miles for both but i only want to talk about the search program because if you were going to get miles for spending you should jest get their credit card and get the miles bonus for applying.

After you install the tool bar you will notice a counter next to the search button. This allows you to see if you are getting credit for your searches and how many miles you have earned. Here’s how it works, you will get 1 mile for every 3 searches. So far after 3 days of searching i have earned 15 miles.

You’re limited to earning 5000 miles a month and the counter resets at the end of the month. The miles you earned are banked and you can log into your account to see them.

With a one way coach ticket for a continental US to or from Hawaii costing 30,000 miles, it would take 6 month to earn a free one way ticket, or 12 months for round trip. With 500 miles costing only $13.44 (as of this post) one begins to wonder if its worth it.

The answer depends on you. If you only need an extra 500 mile and you have the time why not user the search program. If time is not on your side then you will need to buy them. Even though 500 miles for $13.44 doesn’t sound expensive, if you were to buy a one way ticked it would coast you $806.40. If you shop around you can get a round trip ticket for $500 so buying miles instead of tickets isn’t smart.

In summary if you have free time on the interned and can do 500 searches a day (500 x 30 = 15,000 searches) you can earn 5000 miles a month and be on your way to 1 free round trip ticket a year.

Here is the link to the, free Hawaiian air miles.