Early in the year Emirates was added as an Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan partner, with the immediate ability to earn miles for travel on Emirates. Unfortunately the ability to redeem miles for travel on Emirates wasn't immediately available, though they said it should be available in late 2012. Well, the wording on the Alaska website…
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I hope they have a redemption between HKG and BKK. I know others have paid for that segment but to get on the flight for only 2-3hrs would be awesome with an award...sadly Korean Airlines doesn't have that as a segment
It was known for sometime that it would not happen this year, so this did not come as a surprise.
However, I think this timeline will stick as they know where they stand and what needs to be done as opposed to being in the very beginning of the project when they first announced the anticipated release date.
As for when, in AS's definition early 2013 means before June, so I will say sometime in March. I hope the chart will look something similar to JL's chart not KE's, but I fear it will be the latter.
@Ryan - But KE does have the Australia to New Zealand segment it looks like, which is an A380 as well (as I recall), and that's just a 3-4 hour flight. I think a first class ticket one way for that flight was in the $1875 range when I looked earlier in the year.
Should we start accumulating Alaska points in anticipation of the Emirates redemption?
@ Dave Op -- Well there are other great uses of Alaska miles so I'm generally all for collecting Alaska miles, though I wouldn't do it specifically in anticipation of Emirates redemption opportunities since we have no clue what the chart will look like.