Is Alaska Airlines Partners with American

When Alaska acquired Virgin America, I wondered what that would mean for their relationship with the Americans. Finally, there are many overlaps between the routes of America and Virgin America. Now, Alaska and American have just heralded some important changes in their FFP that will begin on January 1, 2018.

From January 1, 2018, Alaska Members will no longer accumulate air miles on American Airlines home travel that is not commercialized by Alaska, and U.S. members will no longer accumulate air miles on all Alaska Airlines travel that is not commercialized by American Airlines. Luckily, you can still collect Alaska Flight Points for your U.S. flight as this is an area where Alaska cannot really rival.

So, if you fly from Dallas to Los Angeles to Shanghai, you can get your Los Angeles to Shanghai to Alaska money, but not your Dallas to Los Angeles money. Since 1 January 2018, airlines have no longer offered each other prioritised embarkation, free baggage allowance, preferential seats, etc. to members of the opposite airline's élite.

Finally, the Alaska Mileage Plan will devalue the premium fares for American Airlines trips. It' not a big deal, because Americans seldom provide room for savings-level awards. Here is the shift in allotment levels that we can anticipate from 1 January 2018: You can see that Alaska is adapting its awards charts to fit more tightly with American awards cost.

A number of awards cost less (such as a US First to Asia 2 First to Asia 2 Awards from 32,500 to 25,000 miles), while others cost more (such as a US to Asia 2 First to Asia 2 Awards from 67,500 to 110,000 miles). It is only Alaska that makes these changes, as there are no adaptations to the American AAdvantage Awards on Alaska.

This is probably due in part to the fact that Americans charge the same number of mileage regardless of which affiliate carrier you choose to travel, while Alaska has individual reward tables for each other. As Alaska has acquired Virgin America, airlines have more overlapping and competing marketplaces. It' no wonder Americans don't want to give you mileage when you take Virgin America between Los Angeles and New York, for example.

I' m active this caretaker stupid, though, assumption what a achiever system is Alaska Mileage Plan. An Alaska is one of the few surviving legacy airline programmes in the US as they still allocate mileage on the basis of flying distances rather than dollar spend. Is this Alaska & American downgrade going to alter your élite rank strategies?

Traveling about 400,000 mph a year, mainly with mileage and points, he is able to gain his first-rate experience.