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A Trick To Save 10,000 – 15,000 Miles Each Way When Booking Business Class Awards

by Gary Leff

May 18 2024

The quirk is that when you book a business class award, and add a connection in economy, sometimes the price of the award drops.

Even better you don’t need to do this as a throwaway ticket without checking bags. Alaska Airlines offers one-way awards with a free stopover. So book your business class ticket to Europe and add a one-way coach flight to another destination for later. You should do this anyway any time you’re booking an award since it’s a free extra trip. Except here it’s negative-priced.

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How Alaska Airlines Is Considering Changing Its Frequent Flyer Program

by Gary Leff

alaska airlines plane
Mar 05 2020

Alaska Airlines is surveying potential changes to their program, including moving to revenue-based earning and offering elite tiers starting at just 5000 qualifying miles.

While programs survey potential changes all of the time, and many of the potential ideas being surveyed never see the light of day, since it’s reasonable to expect to see changes to the program coming as a result of the American and oneworld partnership, changes that Mileage Plan is surveying now become especially interesting.

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More Generous Frequent Flyer Program Drives Profits At Alaska Airlines

by Gary Leff

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Feb 01 2020

Despite being hobbled by a less aggressive co-brand credit card issuer in Bank of America, Alaska reports in their fourth quarter earnings call that they “saw double-digit percentage growth in our revenues” from Mileage Plan and that comes on top of “incredible years of growth in our loyalty program since the acquisition.”

The financial performance of the program demonstrates that charting their own course – investing more in marketing – drives customer loyalty and revenue to the airline and helps them to compete effectively against less generous airlines

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