The combination of Alaska Airways and Hawaiian Airways is heating up. Alaska’s loyalty program — Alaska Airways Mileage Plan — introduced Thursday that it is making some modifications to its mileage award ranges between Alaska Mileage Plan and HawaiianMiles.
Flyers might be completely satisfied to know the modifications are pretty minor and do not signify an enormous devaluation. Actually, there are some brilliant spots.
These modifications come because the airways proceed to work towards combining the Mileage Plan and HawaiianMiles applications right into a single loyalty program this summer time.
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“We’re introducing two new award ranges, permitting HawaiianMiles members to redeem on high-demand flights by reserving the ‘final seat out there,’ a preferred Mileage Plan profit that was beforehand not out there for HawaiianMiles redemptions,” Alaska informed TPG in an e mail. “So long as there’s a seat out there on the market, members could have a chance to redeem.”
There might be no modifications to Important Cabin awards nor first-class entry-level awards, with award journey beginning as little as 40,000 miles.
Actually, there’s excellent news right here from Alaska.
“For a majority of the seats, award journey will both keep the identical or be lowered by 10,000 miles throughout all routes, with extra beneficiant availability,” the airline stated.
Alaska did word {that a} small portion of higher-end award ranges elevated to align with Mileage Plan.
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Here’s a fast take a look at the brand new award charge ranges:
| Area | Mileage charges from introductory to anytime |
|---|---|
| Pago Pago, Papeete, Rarotonga | 47,500 to 175,000 |
| Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand | 65,000 to 250,000 |
| U.S. West Coast (Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington) | 40,000 to 150,000 |
| U.S. East Coast (Massachusetts, New York) | 40,000 to 250,000 |
The modifications will deliver parity between the 2 award charts, and the modifications solely apply to Hawaiian-operated flights — like these between San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO) and Maui’s Kahului Airport (OGG) — that was once operated by Alaska Airways.
A fast search reveals that flights between Honolulu and Seattle on Hawaiian-operated planes price 61,250 to 78,750 Hawaiian miles for Important Cabin and 265,000 for first-class.
The information comes only a month after we realized that Alaska Airways Mileage Plan members will quickly be capable of use their Alaska Airways Companion Fare certificates on any Hawaiian Airways flight inside North America. The Companion Fare that comes with some Alaska playing cards permits you to deliver one journey companion on a round-trip Alaska Airways flight (which can now embody Hawaiian Airways) for simply $99 (plus taxes and charges from $23). Be aware that the certificates is simply legitimate for journey within the economic system cabin; nonetheless, Companion Fares are eligible for upgrades.
You may earn the Companion Fare every account anniversary (after spending $6,000 on purchases in your earlier anniversary yr) with the next cobranded bank cards: the Alaska Airways Visa Signature® bank card and the Alaska Airways Visa® Enterprise card.
Backside line
I am excited to see Hawaiian Airways and Alaska Airways proceed to combine, and I look ahead to this system’s full implementation.
Whereas it is by no means enjoyable to see greater award costs, these will increase appear reasonable by right this moment’s requirements. Actually, some redemptions will lower in price by 10,000 miles. These with HawaiianMiles can even get the final seat availability, which is a real enhancement.
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