Originally Posted by deelmakur

If it is a revenue ticket, you should be able to request an "involuntary reroute", or a FIM (flight interruption manifest). Unless they have done away with them, the FIM acts like a full fare ticket, and all the majors take them. Assuming those forms are still around, they normally won't issue them against an E ticket, meaning you have to go to a counter, and get a paper ticket in exchange for the electronic one. That can be challenging, and they normally charge somethiing for the conversion. As well, they don't like these to begin with, since, if you actually get a FIM, and then use it, the issuing carrrier (in this thread, that would be Alaska) has to pay the carrier who accepts it in the first place