Alaska announced a pretty big improvement to their Mileage Plan program today, which will be great news for those that credit partner flights to Alaska. While Alaska has over a dozen airline partners across the alliances, they're not all eligible for elite qualifying mileage accrual. As of now, only the following partner airlines are eligible…
Continue reading: Alaska Mileage Plan Adds EQMs For All International Partner Airlines
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Can you utilize Alaska FF benefits on oneworld and sky alliance airlines..for example lounge access, baggage?
@ Kumar -- That's the one downside to Alaska, they don't belong to an alliance so you don't get lounge access based on your status when flying partner airlines.
I think the Alaska flyers can thank Delta for this. It makes the Alaska program look pretty good to Seattle based flyers especially those that do some overseas travel.
Offering EQM's on Cathay and Korean when Delta is starting to fly competitive routes from Seattle pretty much signals their partnership is over.
Seattle residents should benefit greatly as this plays out.
As a Delta flyer with 100K EQMs this year. Does it make sense to hit Platinum 75K and bank the rest to Alaska? Elite on two airlines, allows flexibility.
@ Andy -- Well the issue is you wouldn't have the same upgrade priority, so if it's a Delta flight where you're hoping to upgrade you're probably better off continuing to credit to them.
Hey, Lucky, EVA is finally changing their Seattle route to 777-300ER starting Aug 6th, 2014!!! God has finally answered my prayer,lol.......
This is probably a topic for another day, but as an Execplat on AA who is not going to requalify, I was wondering what you think is the best strategy for a status match as of July 1, 2014.
Alaska? Delta? United?
I figure if I status match on July 1, I'd be X through Feb 2016 with the new airline. Just wondering which of the three would match American Executive Platinum the best for an LAX-bound flyer. Thanks!
Which
Help!! I try to check on using alaska miles for traveling sfo to han on cathay pacific but alaska rep said it can't be done because they do not partner with dragonair which will fly out of hong kong. They can only get me to hong kong? Thanks in advance
@ leslie -- Unfortunately that's correct, as they don't partner with DragonAir. Kind of ridiculous, I know.
While not ideal, Cathay Pacific does fly to Ho Chi Minh City.