A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Alaska Airlines will be joining the oneworld alliance in 2021. On the surface this is an exciting development, though I'm also curious about the implications this has on their industry leading Mileage Plan…
For a while, the Alaska Airlines Visa® Business Credit Card has had an increased welcome bonus, and it's an offer seriously worth considering. This is a card that I have and that I applied for under a worse offer, so I sure wish I had applied when this…
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. For the past few weeks Mileage Plan has been offering their first major…
In this post I wanted to take a look at how to access Alaska Lounges. Alaska is unique among US airlines when it comes to their lounge access policies, as they're the only major US airline to allow all paid first class passengers into their lounges.…
Today is a huge day for American, Alaska, and aviation in Seattle. Earlier I wrote about how Alaska Airlines is joining the oneworld alliance, but that isn't the only big development. Thanks to a strengthened partnership between American and Alaska,…
This is huge news. In many ways it feels like the "global alliances" have been dying a little bit, as airlines have instead focused on codeshare agreements and joint ventures as they make sense. That's not the case across the board, though, as the oneworld…
While this is only valid for travel on two days, it still has the potential to be a pretty cool promotion. Alaska Airlines is offering a buy one get one free (BOGO) deal for economy class tickets booked today (February 11, 2020, by 11:59PM PT), and for…
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 for credit card spending. The number of bonus…
I'm a huge fan of the Alaska Mileage Plan program. Even though the airline doesn't belong to any of the global alliances, they have a variety of airline partners across the three alliances, and also have several independent airline partners. Alaska Mileage…
Alaska Airlines faces a big fleet decision this year, which is complicated even further by the carrier's longstanding loyalty to Boeing. During Alaska Airlines' fourth quarter 2019 earnings call earlier this week, the airline revealed a major focus for…
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my favorite programs to buy miles from. They often have promotions on purchased miles, and they have lucrative partner redemption rates, and even allow stopovers on most one-way awards. It's one of my all around favorite…
I had quite a long layover at JFK, as I arrived from Miami at around 10AM, and was continuing to Tokyo on All Nippon Airways at around 5PM. So I headed over to Terminal 7 right away, where I'll be reviewing two lounges -- the Alaska Lounge (which I could…
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs, thanks to the unique array of airline partners that they have. At the moment, Mileage Plan is offering a great promotion for travel on Fiji Airways -- you can either receive up to 50%…
At the moment Alaska Airlines has a pretty good promotion for anyone who is planning travel this winter. Technically this promotion is being run in conjunction with Starbucks as part of their Happy Hour today, and they tell you to download the Starbucks…
Friday, December 20, 2019, is National Ugly Holiday Sweater Day (apparently?). To celebrate, Alaska Airlines is offering priority boarding to those who wear ugly holiday sweaters on that day. This is a promotion they've offered for the past couple of…
Horizon Air is Alaska Airlines' regional airline, and they operate a fleet of Embraer 175 and Bombardier Q400 aircraft. Well, the details of a pretty damning internal memo have been made public this week, and some of the revelations are shocking. The…
For those of you not familiar with Amex Offers, it’s a program available through most American Express cards, where different cards are eligible for different savings and bonus offers. In many cases the offers can be huge, and more than offset the annual…
Alaska Airlines has been known to offer some unique opportunities to get priority boarding, like when before Christmas they sometimes offer priority boarding to those wearing ugly sweaters. Well, the company has now rolled out another promotion for priority…
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my all around favorite frequent flyer programs, though unfortunately it looks like mileage earning has been cut on yet another partner airline (perhaps due to no fault of Alaska). Alaska Cuts Mileage Earning On Qantas Alaska…
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.…
I find Alaska Mileage Plan miles to be incredibly valuable, and in particular appreciate that they allow stopovers even on one-way awards. Well, it looks like the program is changing their policy on this, at least for travel within one region. Alaska…
