Boyd Gaming, Hawaiian Airlines Connect Loyalty Programs

Boyd Gaming and Hawaiian Airlines are tapping into customers’ affinity for frequent flier miles and points, with the deuce companies announcing a reciprocity allot involving their trueness programs.

Under the terms of the agreement, Boyd Gaming’s type B Connected Points can buoy garner points with the common carrier and those enrolled in the HawaiianMiles programme put up add together to their rewards at Boyd properties.

The partnership provides customers with greater approach to B Connected’s exciting selection of reinforcement tiers, scoop participant benefits and memorable entertainment experiences, as easily as more shipway to garner and usage HawaiianMiles,” according to a financial statement issued by the companies.

Las Vegas-based Boyd runs 28 gaming venues crosswise 10 states, including 11 in its rest home city. Its Sin City venues include the Aliante, Gold Coast, Main Street Station, Sam’s Town, and the Orleans.

Practical Partnership

Owing to Hawaiian’s phylogenetic relation for the largest US cassino hub, Las Vegas is often referred to as the “ninth island.” That sentiment carries duplicate exercising weight for Boyd, because Hawaiian tourists are especially fond of downtown Las Vegas, where Boyd is the largest operator.

Boyd’s CA Hotel, although named for another state, features an open Hawaiian flare, as well as cocktails and food pop in the island state. It’s estimated that 10 percent of HI residents follow to Las Vegas every year, many puddle multiple trips to the gaming mecca, and nearly all of them detain at Boyd properties.

The relationship 'tween the gaming companionship and gamblers from the Aloha State is so important that when Boyd laid turned 300 workers in conclusion twelvemonth because of the coronavirus pandemic, slackness visitation from Hawai'i was cited as i of the reasons.

Hawaiian Airlines holds upwards its cease of the bargain, offering multiple flights per day betwixt Honolulu and Maui Island to Las Vegas. The toter offers bundled flight and hotel packages, the bulk of which feature article Strip venues. It’s not in time open if those offerings will follow reconfigured as a final result of the points arrangement with Boyd.

For Boyd and Hawaiian, Good Timing

The type B Connected Points/HawaiianMiles concord arrives as Las Vegas is showing signs of an solemn retrieval that’s excited analysts, investors, and, most importantly, tourists.

Perhaps as as important to getting the points partnership cancelled to a solidness start up — and to the top side and bottom lines of Boyd and Hawaiian Air — is that Hawaii’s economic system is on the mend.

“Total airwave seats to Hawai'i in May recovered 78.2 percent from the same month inwards 2019, and the June airway schedule testament recoup o'er 89 percent of the seats. Seats from domesticated flights in May are 3.2 percent to a greater extent than those inward May 2019, and seats scheduled for June will be 14.3 percent to a greater extent than June 2019,” according to the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT).

DBEDT also boosted its 2021 country GDP forecast to 3.5 percent, up from a 2.7 percent guess issued inward February.