Originally Posted by themicah
Just to be clear, you're saying that AS is more restrictive in letting you redeem miles, right? You're not saying that AS is more restrictive in letting you earn miles, are you?
Either way, this is new info to me, and definitely interesting.
Correct in one sense: You have to stay with one airline for your entire trip. But in another sense, they do have quite a few airlines from which to choose, and it appears that it will get much better. They say that soon we will be able to use Alaska miles to get tickets on Air France and KLM. That business class Air France ticket non-stop from San Francisco to Paris is really nice, and from there you can go to most anywhere in Europe. I believe that
so far that ticket is available only via Delta miles from U.S. Airlines miles programs.
I have found that availability on Alaska partners with Alaska miles is quite good. Usually they can get me to where I want to go.
I collect most of my miles on both American and Alaska. Next choices are United and Delta.