Alaska Airlines has made some significant improvements to their lounges over the past couple of years, including adding new locations, renovating existing locations, and mixing up their food & drink selection. Historically the Alaska Lounges in Seattle…
We're now over halfway into 2019 (I'd say "where has time gone?" but I feel like I'm always wondering that), so I wanted to provide an update on how 2019 is looking for me status-wise at the halfway point. At the very beginning of 2019 I wrote a post…
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan is one of my favorite programs to buy miles from, both thanks to the frequency with which they sell miles, and what a good deal their redemptions can be. About a week ago Alaska Mileage Plan launched their latest promotion…
Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles & points for purchases you’d make anyway. Just for following a specific link you can earn bonus points in addition to the ones you’d earn anyway for credit card spend. Whenever I…
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles are among my favorite mileage currencies out there. On a per mile basis, I value Alaska miles more than any other airline miles. In this post I wanted to talk a bit more about actually redeeming Alaska miles -- the…
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs, thanks to the fact that they continue to award miles based on distance flown, have unique airline partners, have low award redemption rates, allow stopovers on one-way awards,…
One of the things that I love about Alaska Airlines is that they partner with a unique array of airlines. They're not part of any global alliance, and have plenty of airline partners that belong to alliances, and also partners that don't belong to alliances.…
The Alaska Airlines Visa® Credit Card is one of my favorite co-branded airline credit cards. It's a card I've had for years (along with the business version of the card, the Alaska Airlines Visa® Business Credit Card), and one I generally think is great.…
There are various airline credit cards that offer some sort of a companion ticket for spending a certain amount. To me the single most valuable companion ticket is the one offered by Alaska Airlines, so in this post I wanted to look at that in more detail,…
Here's an interesting situation that I'd like to share my take on, and I'm also curious what you guys think. Generally speaking, loyalty programs have rules against selling or bartering your points. It's not generally illegal, but rather violates the…
Well this is a bit of a surprise. As of July 1st 2019, El Al passengers will have the option to credit flown miles to Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, rather than El Al's own Matmid frequent flyer program.
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs, given their unique array of airline partners, combined with their generous mileage earning rates. Alaska Airlines sometimes has promotions offering bonus miles for travel on their partners,…
It goes without saying that everyone has different preferences for flight times. For example, some people are morning people, while others are night owls. Some people can sleep on a plane without issue, while others struggle to sleep without the perfect…
Recently we saw an increased new welcome bonus launched on the Alaska Airlines Visa® Business Credit Card, and it's an offer seriously worth considering. I applied for this card when it had a worse offer, so I'm jealous of those of you who can get this…
Back in August 2017, Alaska Airlines and Singapore Airlines announced a partnership, which would offer reciprocal mileage earning and redemption opportunities for members of both programs. While I appreciate Alaska's unique array of airline partners,…
As far as I'm concerned, the Alaska Airlines Visa® Credit Card is one of the most underrated airline credit cards out there. Alaska and Bank of America have also significantly improved the bonuses on these cards over the years, so if you don't yet have…
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs, given their unique array of airline partners, combined with their generous mileage earning rates. At the moment Alaska has quite a few promotions for flying. They're offering double miles…
I recently picked up the Alaska Airlines Visa® Business Credit Card (given that I think it's a worthwhile card), though the card now has an even better welcome bonus that should make the card even more interesting for many. So let's take a look at what…
One of the things that I love about Alaska Mileage Plan is that they have such a unique array of airline partners, and they even allow stopovers on one-way award tickets. One of Alaska's cool airline partners is Icelandair. The airlines partnered until…
Nowadays it's quite rare to see frequent flyer programs actually offer promotions that incentivize flying. A vast majority of promotions nowadays seem to be for non-flying activities. Personally I'd pose the question if someone should be running a loyalty…
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs, given their unique array of airline partners, combined with their generous mileage earning rates. It's an exciting year for transpacific flights out of Seattle, as next month both Cathay…
