The integration of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines is heating up. Alaska’s loyalty program — Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan — introduced Thursday that it is making some adjustments to its mileage award ranges between Alaska Mileage Plan and HawaiianMiles.
Flyers will likely be completely satisfied to know the adjustments are pretty minor and do not signify an enormous devaluation. In truth, there are some vivid spots.
These adjustments come because the airways proceed to work towards combining the Mileage Plan and HawaiianMiles packages right into a single loyalty program this summer season.
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“We are introducing two new award levels, allowing HawaiianMiles members to redeem on high-demand flights by booking the ‘last seat available,’ a popular Mileage Plan benefit that was previously not available for HawaiianMiles redemptions,” Alaska instructed TPG in an e mail. “As long as there is a seat available for sale, members will have an opportunity to redeem.”
There will likely be no adjustments to Main Cabin awards nor first-class entry-level awards, with award journey beginning as little as 40,000 miles.
In truth, there’s excellent news right here from Alaska.
“For a majority of the seats, award travel will either stay the same or be reduced by 10,000 miles across all routes, with more generous availability,” the airline mentioned.
Alaska did be aware {that a} small portion of higher-end award ranges elevated to align with Mileage Plan.
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Here is a fast take a look at the brand new award charge ranges:
| Region | 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 adjustments will deliver parity between the 2 award charts, and the adjustments solely apply to Hawaiian-operated flights — like these between San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Maui’s Kahului Airport (OGG) — that was once operated by Alaska Airlines.
A fast search reveals that flights between Honolulu and Seattle on Hawaiian-operated planes value 61,250 to 78,750 Hawaiian miles for Main Cabin and 265,000 for firstclass.
The information comes only a month after we realized that Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members will quickly be capable of use their Alaska Airlines Companion Fare certificates on any Hawaiian Airlines flight inside North America. The Companion Fare that comes with some Alaska playing cards allows you to deliver one journey companion on a round-trip Alaska Airlines flight (which is able to now embody Hawaiian Airlines) for simply $99 (plus taxes and costs from $23). Note that the certificates is simply legitimate for journey within the economic system cabin; nevertheless, Companion Fares are eligible for upgrades.
You can 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 Airlines Visa Signature® bank card and the Alaska Airlines Visa® Business card.
Bottom line
I’m excited to see Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines proceed to combine, and I look ahead to this system’s full implementation.
While it is by no means enjoyable to see larger award costs, these will increase appear reasonable by at the moment’s requirements. In truth, some redemptions will lower in value by 10,000 miles. Those with HawaiianMiles can even get the final seat availability, which is a real enhancement.
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