Stopover in Fiji on the way to New Zealand. It’s basically two stopovers on a roundtrip. This is usable in so many ways and is useful for finding more award availability. The good news that outweighs the bad 9 times out of 10 is that they allow stopovers on oneways. Well, you’d have to fly on Alaska to connect to a hub or not be able to book the ticket. And let’s say you live nowhere near an airport that Cathay serves but want to fly to Hong Kong. There aren’t really any Alaska flights to a hub. So you could fly LA to Seattle on Alaska and then Seattle to Paris on AA and that will still be on the AA price.īut the big disadvantage is when you live on the east coast. However, they will allow you to connect with Alaska Airlines.
But adding in Paris could get closer to triple digits. Like a direct flight on AA will have very small airport taxes, like $20.
#How many points are on my license alaska full#
See, with AA’s OneWorld award chart, I can book an off-peak price to Europe on airlines like Air Berlin, Iberia, Niki, or Finnair and still get the 20,000 mile price.īut when using Alaska miles I have to fly AA to get the off-peak price, and AA doesn’t fly very far east. They fly to Milan, Dusseldorf, etc… But they don’t fly to places like Budapest, Prague, etc… You don’t have a full reach of Europe.Īnd routing with KLM or Air France has its disadvantages besides higher mileage prices. This is the biggest disadvantage to practically using their miles. It’s the only thing that’s a slight drawback from the sweet spots of AA’s off-peak or other great partner prices I’ll talk about. Since Alaska isn’t part of an alliance, and since they just kind of price out depending on which partner you’re flying… they don’t do bookings on multiple partners. Then I can explain a trick and the disadvantages. However, I need to take a minute and explain 2 things about Alaska.
This is different than my recent post on the Lesser Known AA Off-Peak Routes. One big distinction is that they don’t match all of AA’s off-peak prices, just the ones seen above. But I can think of at least one better deal: AA’s off-peak when using Alaska Miles. For example they completely match AA’s off-peak award chart.įor us economy flyers there are few better deals than AA’s off-peak. Instead it kind of just picks partners that make sense and matches some of what they do. Therefore, pretty much any price you see is a good use except for BA flights.Īlaska is unique, because it hasn’t joined an alliance. Note that British Airways is the only one that gets fuel surcharges passed on. However, as far as I know, the award chart I made recently is the only award chart in one place. This will be used a ton for this post. I normally don’t put in the entire award chart, especially when it’s this long. We earned over 36,000 AA miles on a roundtrip to Beijing because of the class of service bonus and the 125% elite status bonus. We got our status from status matching but the 125% bonus was huge on the last AA flight I mentioned. 125% bonus + 50,000 mile bonus is awesome. Plus, if you requalify the hard way for top tier status, you get a bonus 50,000 miles.
Enough for 5 roundtrips to Europe (with the off-peak trick) each.Īlaska has one of the best top tier status bonuses of all the mileage programs. You earn 125% bonus miles on all flights. Next time the bonus is back we should go for 200,000 miles. And when it comes back, I do plan on getting a few. The Alaska card is with Bank of America and is going to fall under the same overly generous rules that Frequent Miler experienced with the Virgin card. This credit card periodically comes around with a 50,000 miles bonus. This is a post on “best uses” of Alaska Miles, it’s not about earning them, but there are two things I’ll briefly mention. If this post doesn’t teach you at least two things awesome and new, then you’ll get your money back. There are huge benefits to Alaska for someone like myself. On our latest AA business class mistake fare to Beijing, I chose to credit all my miles to Alaska instead of crediting to AA. Seriously my love for Alaska is ever growing. From economy to First class the redemptions are the cheapest, and it’s one of the few airlines left allowing stopovers on oneways. Some of the cheapest international flights (like 20k to Europe) and some of most luxurious flights (Emirates First Class with showers) can all be had with Alaska miles. Alaska Miles are not only super easy to earn, they are also some of the most valuable miles around.
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