Apr 5, 2014, 3:23 pm
Last edit by: eponymous_coward
Emirates award guide using Alaska Airlines miles
Routing Rules:
All trips must start or end in North America.
One open jaw and one stopover allowed on each one-way award.
No fees for changes/cancellations prior to 60 days from departure.
North American Gateway Cities:
West Coast
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Central
Chicago
Dallas
Houston
East Coast
Boston
New York (JFK)
Orlando (Effective September 1, 2015)
Washington DC (IAD)
Canada
Toronto
Award Chart Links*:
Middle East & Africa
Asia
Europe
*If region is not listed on chart its not available.
Perks
Chauffeur Drive NOT Available
Car service is not available for all Business Class and First Class passengers on Alaska Airlines ticketed award tickets on Emirates flights (as of Jan 2015). The chauffeur will not confirm if you use the EK website for this, though the website makes it look you can make a reservation.
Lounges
Access is available for all passengers traveling in Business and First Class. Not all cities have lounges and many may be operated by a Partner. There have been some reports of people having an issue accessing the Dubai lounges as the tickets may appear in their system as non-revenue employee travel. This is not as much of a problem as it used to be but in case it comes up please advise the lounge attendant that you are on an Alaska Airlines award.
Dubai Connect
AS Awards on EK do not qualify for Dubai Connect, which is the service that offers the free hotel.
Tricks to find Transoceanic availability
Instead of performing a blanket, i.e. SEA-DXB search, perform: SEA-MED.
Madinah is a destination that is only served by EK. Consequently, if there is availability, only EK will show up in the calendar results.
Routing Rules:
All trips must start or end in North America.
One open jaw and one stopover allowed on each one-way award.
No fees for changes/cancellations prior to 60 days from departure.
North American Gateway Cities:
West Coast
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Central
Chicago
Dallas
Houston
East Coast
Boston
New York (JFK)
Orlando (Effective September 1, 2015)
Washington DC (IAD)
Canada
Toronto
Award Chart Links*:
Middle East & Africa
Asia
Europe
*If region is not listed on chart its not available.
Perks
Chauffeur Drive NOT Available
Car service is not available for all Business Class and First Class passengers on Alaska Airlines ticketed award tickets on Emirates flights (as of Jan 2015). The chauffeur will not confirm if you use the EK website for this, though the website makes it look you can make a reservation.
Lounges
Access is available for all passengers traveling in Business and First Class. Not all cities have lounges and many may be operated by a Partner. There have been some reports of people having an issue accessing the Dubai lounges as the tickets may appear in their system as non-revenue employee travel. This is not as much of a problem as it used to be but in case it comes up please advise the lounge attendant that you are on an Alaska Airlines award.
Dubai Connect
AS Awards on EK do not qualify for Dubai Connect, which is the service that offers the free hotel.
Tricks to find Transoceanic availability
Instead of performing a blanket, i.e. SEA-DXB search, perform: SEA-MED.
Madinah is a destination that is only served by EK. Consequently, if there is availability, only EK will show up in the calendar results.
Consolidated Emirates (EK) awards availability/booking/routing thread
Apr 15, 2015, 7:54 am
#1846
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: SEA
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 759
I have no reserve AS miles. How would I go about doing this? The date for the potential return isn't available yet, but the date for the MAD-DXB portion is. Do I have to wait a few days until my DXB-LAX segment opens up to book the flights? When I cancel my current itinerary, I know I'll lose the $12.50 (x2 seats), but will my AS miles immediately become available in my account again? Or does it take a few days before I can use them again? Or is it better to call in to the center and let them do it?
Apr 15, 2015, 9:07 am
#1847
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 4,431
Booked two F tickets IAH-DXB-BKK (stopover) BKK-HKG. I've already changed the itinerary a few times to get dates/times in order and it's been incredibly easy. Another datapoint to confirm what others have posted above...there's no space left on our first two flights, but changing the date of BKK-HKG hasn't been a problem.
Last edited by DaveInLA; Apr 15, 2015 at 9:23 am
Apr 16, 2015, 9:48 am
#1852
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 877
I booked IAH-DXB (22 hour stop-over) then ATH.
IAH-DXB is F
DXB-ATH is J even though Expert Flyer shows Z1. I wasn't able to get the AS site to let me book one seat in F. It always showed mixed-cabin awards. I was hoping to lock this one seat in F & hope another one opened up closer to the departure date.
Thoughts?
IAH-DXB is F
DXB-ATH is J even though Expert Flyer shows Z1. I wasn't able to get the AS site to let me book one seat in F. It always showed mixed-cabin awards. I was hoping to lock this one seat in F & hope another one opened up closer to the departure date.
Thoughts?
Apr 16, 2015, 2:51 pm
#1853
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: New York, NY
Programs: IHG Spire Ambassador, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 456
Any recent problems getting access to F outstation lounges (I'm particularly interested in LA) or at DXB?
Apr 16, 2015, 3:30 pm
#1854
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend, Moderator, Information Desk, Ambassador, Alaska Airlines
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: FAI
Programs: AS MVP Gold100K, AS 1MM, Maika`i Card, AGR, HH Gold, Hertz PC, Marriott Titanium LTG, CO, 7H, BA, 8E
Posts: 42,953
Wirelessly posted (beckoa's BB: Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9810; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.694 Mobile Safari/534.11+)
Was issued an invite in ICN with no prompting at checkin. No issues at DXB either.
Was issued an invite in ICN with no prompting at checkin. No issues at DXB either.
Apr 16, 2015, 7:26 pm
#1855
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 4,431
I've read countless datapoints of no limo, but has anybody successfully gotten the limo ride recently? If so, what did you do to get it? Thanks
Apr 18, 2015, 6:42 pm
#1856
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 589
Same here, was wondering if in DXB you can just flash your F boarding pass, will they let you use the free EK Chauffeur without a reservations?.
Apr 18, 2015, 7:26 pm
#1857
Moderator: Alaska Mileage Plan
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 12,316
In DXB and elsewhere in the Middle East, you won't "flash" your way to anything. EK and its peers have protocols, which are not easily altered.
Apr 18, 2015, 7:33 pm
#1858
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain Time Zone
Programs: AS Million Miler/Marriott Lifetime Titanium/ IGH Ambassador
Posts: 5,990
I would however if you so deem yourself to be respectful and humbly inquire at the desk, 3rd floor first class fourth floor business class
Apr 19, 2015, 6:54 pm
#1859
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 321
Folks quick question.
Let's say I have follow in one way segments lax-dxb-mxp and currently dxb-mxp segment is not available.
1. Can I make lax-dxb reservation now and add the dxb-mxp segment of it get available? How could I do so? Can I add the segement till the very last moment of travel? Is there a change fee?
2. Let's say if I book the full reservation and dxb-map section with lower class. Can I upgrade later if things get availabla?How could I do so? Can I add the segement till the very last moment of travel? Is there a change fee?
Appreciate the help
Let's say I have follow in one way segments lax-dxb-mxp and currently dxb-mxp segment is not available.
1. Can I make lax-dxb reservation now and add the dxb-mxp segment of it get available? How could I do so? Can I add the segement till the very last moment of travel? Is there a change fee?
2. Let's say if I book the full reservation and dxb-map section with lower class. Can I upgrade later if things get availabla?How could I do so? Can I add the segement till the very last moment of travel? Is there a change fee?
Appreciate the help
Apr 20, 2015, 4:08 pm
#1860
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K, AA Plat, AS MVPG
Posts: 287
Had a SFO-DXB in F booked weeks ago and just called in to tack on a DXB-HKG leg, also in F. Was thinking it wouldn't be possible because there is no longer F available on the SFO-DXB leg, but based on the past few pages of this thread I I decided to give it a try. Went through without a hitch.
Maybe my change never implicated the married segment rule to begin with, but in any event I was pleased.
Maybe my change never implicated the married segment rule to begin with, but in any event I was pleased.