Alaska Mileage Plan Raises Delta Redemption Rates

Not a ton of notice, but hard to hate on it. Still a far better deal than booking with Delta directly, and an increase of 10k miles isn't the type of major devaluation you'd really want a lot of notice about...

Any fears this is foreshadowing changes to Alaska's best partner awards? Gotta save up 140k for Cathay to SA ASAP!

I was thinking the same thing as BFrankley. I hope this wasn't some kind of subtle hint towards more catastrophic changes O_O

AS had the same cost as DL but then DL raised the r/t cost (to 125k?). So, I would assume this is more related to that.

If it wasn't for lucky, I wouldn't know anything about Alaska's award program. I think the mileage redemptions are very fair right now, so I'll continue to migrate toward their program. Even if they raised their redemption levels some, I think they have an outstanding program and I love their search engine. They just need to add Cathay and anyone else I'm missing on the list. Kudos Alaska!

Just a heads up- I checked in for a Delta flight out of ORD last week and the Delta agent told me my Alaska MVP Gold status wouldn't be honored on Delta as Delta was no longer going to be a partner with Alaska. He noted the intense competition with Alaska on the west coast and tried to give me the Delta mileage plan number to status match. Reached out to Delta and Alaska on Twitter and both played dumb. It's odd that a desk agent would know more/be so open about it, but it seems plausible given what's been going on.

alaska can raise delta to sky high and most people wouldnt care.

thanks for the update! Hopefully no more devaluations in 2014

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