Hello,

I know that the AS website indicates "late 2012" for EK awards for AS MP members, and I was curious if anyone on the AS side had any new insight. The last status posts here from April indicating still in negotiations. I figure the moment that AS is ready to go with EK awards the vice-versa will be true too. I believe it was supposed to be June 2012 from original communications, but that has passed us by quite some time ago.

http://www.alaskaair.com/content/mil.../emirates.aspx

After all, there needs to be some EK members who want AS awards to balance out the demand for EK awards from AS members who are not as interested in CX...

My inquiry response from EK Skywards was that it is not available, but ignored the question of the future. Worse, the Skywards website appears to have removed references for redemption to be coming soon on AS partner pages.

Regards,
Rasheed