Alaska Air or American Airlines Buy Miles Promotion?

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Alaska Air or American Airlines Buy Miles Promotion?

by Ben Schlappig Guest December 16, 2015, 6:08 pm

Alaska Air or American Airlines Buy Miles Promotion?

Anonymous Guest
December 16, 2015, 6:08 pm

Currently Alaska & American have mileage buy promotions. For 60,000 miles they are pretty similar prices, AA is a little better. So I am wondering which is the better buy from a redemption perspective – is one easier to redeem than the other or require less points for rewards? In the coming year I will fly mostly from Sydney Australia but normally it would be New York

Many thanks for input & ideas
Anonymous Guest
December 17, 2015, 10:14 am

Hi Jane! Where would you be flying [I]to? [/I] Alaska has a weird award chart, so there are limited zones you can fly between. They have the better award chart in general, so it depends a bit on where you’re looking at going.
janeblogs Member
December 18, 2015, 1:02 am

[QUOTE=”Tiffany, post: 10597, member: 7″]Hi Jane! Where would you be flying [I]to? [/I] Alaska has a weird award chart, so there are limited zones you can fly between. They have the better award chart in general, so it depends a bit on where you’re looking at going.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Tiffany. Since I posted I have had such poor experience with Alaska customer service that I have decided to run with American. I figured if they were so difficult at this point, it would be even more so when I was in the redemption phase. And AA points will probably give me more flexibility despite the difficulty of load and therefore redemption from Australia. Thanks again

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Alaska Air or American Airlines Buy Miles Promotion?