What’s up with the new partnership with SQ, EI, and AY?
Jun 13, 2018, 11:18 pm
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What’s up with the new partnership with SQ, EI, and AY?
Why is it taking Alaska airlines so long to roll out partnership redemptions on these new Airlines? Especially when on the other airlines you can use their miles to redeem on Alaska! Does anyone have any idea what the award chart is going to look like to redeem on these airlines? I know what the the “planned” dates are suppose to be for us to be able to redeem but I just don’t understand why it took these airline partners mere weeks for their members to be able to redeem on AS, but for AS mileageplan members it’s taking over a year? Something doesn’t sound right. Alaska is not that incompetent. Especially after we lost Air France and KLM we have no options to redeem or earn to Europe now.
Jun 14, 2018, 12:22 am
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I was wondering the same thing. I also noticed that on the partner page for each of these airlines, it used to say "Coming soon." but now it says "Not available at this time." I'm hoping that doesn't mean that we won't be able to redeem on these airlines. That would be a buzz kill.
Jun 14, 2018, 12:23 am
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Jun 14, 2018, 12:27 am
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I'm just curious how this works out in negotiations, SQ has their award chart for AS but somehow they can't convert a similar chart relative to some metric they use to the AS redemption chart. Isn't this back tactics as SQ could say, you need 50k AS miles for a Y ticket, since they already have a solid redemption contract for themselves.
Jun 14, 2018, 12:31 am
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I'm just curious how this works out in negotiations, SQ has their award chart for AS but somehow they can't convert a similar chart relative to some metric they use to the AS redemption chart. Isn't this back tactics as SQ could say, you need 50k AS miles for a Y ticket, since they already have a solid redemption contract for themselves.
Jun 14, 2018, 12:33 am
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As originally mentioned by safari ari, BA's fuel surcharges are a completely different story. You get what you pay for, quite literally, when comparing those three.
Jun 14, 2018, 12:46 am
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Of course not talking about BA. Yes they have an extensive route network, and aren’t terrible about availability and getting to Europe and beyond. But as you said, those “fuel surcharges” are quite ridiculous. You end up having to pay 1-2k for J and about 2k for first. Sort of takes the “award” out of award redemption.
Jun 14, 2018, 6:11 am
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Jun 14, 2018, 8:01 am
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Of course not talking about BA. Yes they have an extensive route network, and aren’t terrible about availability and getting to Europe and beyond. But as you said, those “fuel surcharges” are quite ridiculous. You end up having to pay 1-2k for J and about 2k for first. Sort of takes the “award” out of award redemption.
Jun 14, 2018, 8:59 am
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Jun 14, 2018, 9:03 am
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