Originally Posted by
guv1976
I'd suggest looking to see whether there are low-tier award seats available for the XNA-PDX trip. If there are, then you should be able to just buy the necessary miles directly from the carrier for about $250-300, if you can catch one of the frequent miles sales.
I'll look into that. All our miles are on Alaskan but we can usually book AA flights through the Alaska mileage program. I have about 200,000 miles waiting to be used.