2021 Alaska Airlines *FLAME-FREE* Q&A Thread: All Welcome, New and Old!
Jan 3, 21, 12:45 am
#1
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I asked the Mods to make it a sticky. 
Jan 3, 21, 1:26 am
#2
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Jan 3, 21, 6:36 pm
#3
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Jan 4, 21, 6:17 pm
#4
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Im not sure where else to offer this, but this thread seems best.
Ill have the opportunity to pass along feedback to management in a week or two. DM me if you have any particular feedback or comments for Alaska regarding their operations or loyalty program.
Once I get an official reply to everything Ill post a single thread with the Q / Feedback and Responses.
Hope everyone had a good NYE!
Ill have the opportunity to pass along feedback to management in a week or two. DM me if you have any particular feedback or comments for Alaska regarding their operations or loyalty program.
Once I get an official reply to everything Ill post a single thread with the Q / Feedback and Responses.
Hope everyone had a good NYE!
Jan 4, 21, 8:19 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2009
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I am looking to book a mileage ticket from LIH-DUB that looks like this LIH-SEA stopover SEA-EWR/JFK-DUB. I had a phone agent do her best but could not make the stop in SEA only in Hub of Aer Lingus. Any thioughts? Hang up call again?
Jan 4, 21, 9:21 pm
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Last edited by rustykettel; Jan 4, 21 at 9:27 pm
Jan 4, 21, 11:18 pm
#7
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Would it make a difference that I was looking to book the same routing in coach but the one that costs 35K not 65K?
Jan 5, 21, 8:02 am
#8
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Im not sure where else to offer this, but this thread seems best.
Ill have the opportunity to pass along feedback to management in a week or two. DM me if you have any particular feedback or comments for Alaska regarding their operations or loyalty program.
Once I get an official reply to everything Ill post a single thread with the Q / Feedback and Responses.
Hope everyone had a good NYE!
Ill have the opportunity to pass along feedback to management in a week or two. DM me if you have any particular feedback or comments for Alaska regarding their operations or loyalty program.
Once I get an official reply to everything Ill post a single thread with the Q / Feedback and Responses.
Hope everyone had a good NYE!
PLEASE bring back spirits, at least for the F cabin at a minimum. AA, UA & B6 have no issue with this, it can be easily done.
And increase the catering menu rotation! Or here's a novel idea, implement what they used to do where there was a Northbound/Westbound menu and a Southbound/Eastbound menu so that you don't have to eat the same thing on a roundtrip.
Jan 5, 21, 8:14 am
#9
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I don't think it should, but does it at least appear with the higher mileage price if you try multi city search and put in LIH-SEA//SEA-DUB on your dates? Have you checked award availability for all segments on your preferred stopover dates? The AS segments need to be in saver to pair with a partner award.
Jan 5, 21, 12:10 pm
#10
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I don't think it should, but does it at least appear with the higher mileage price if you try multi city search and put in LIH-SEA//SEA-DUB on your dates? Have you checked award availability for all segments on your preferred stopover dates? The AS segments need to be in saver to pair with a partner award.
Jan 5, 21, 12:28 pm
#11
Join Date: Mar 2016
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Between January and April of 2020 I flew 41,000 miles on Alaska and partner airlines with more than four segments on Alaska. I earned MVP last year. Alaska stated that the EQMs from that four month period would be rolled over to 2021 to earn status for 2022. Given the partner mileage reduction requirements for 2021- it looks like I should be automatically MVP Gold starting in January 2021. Looking at my account page- it still has me as an MVP.
So am I right that I should be MVP Gold or am I missing something? Also what's the best way to contact Alaska to rectify this?
So am I right that I should be MVP Gold or am I missing something? Also what's the best way to contact Alaska to rectify this?
Jan 5, 21, 12:36 pm
#12
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I'm not the best at this to be sure but I think so. The agents tell me that the problem is with Aer Lingus that they will not allow the stopover to be in anything but the "gateway city" meaning EWR or JFK. When I ask if I can book the mileage ticket which shows for 30K SEA to DUB which flies SEA-EWR-DUB and add on a connecting flight from LIH-SEA I am told I cannot. There is a non stop Aer Lingus SEA-DUB but for way more miles and my thinking anyway is to break up the flight and do the first half SEA-EWR in a likely upgraded becasue of status AS metal seat. Thank for your help
And anything EWR-DUB goes via SEA or SFO so you are backtracking big time. Where did you see SEA-EWR-DUB?
Last edited by Finkface; Jan 5, 21 at 12:45 pm
Jan 5, 21, 12:42 pm
#13
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Between January and April of 2020 I flew 41,000 miles on Alaska and partner airlines with more than four segments on Alaska. I earned MVP last year. Alaska stated that the EQMs from that four month period would be rolled over to 2021 to earn status for 2022. Given the partner mileage reduction requirements for 2021- it looks like I should be automatically MVP Gold starting in January 2021. Looking at my account page- it still has me as an MVP.
So am I right that I should be MVP Gold or am I missing something? Also what's the best way to contact Alaska to rectify this?
So am I right that I should be MVP Gold or am I missing something? Also what's the best way to contact Alaska to rectify this?
There's been some discussion about the new 2022 qualification requirements along with 2020 miles not having rolled over yet over in 2021 Carryover miles
Jan 5, 21, 11:02 pm
#14
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I think the problem might be that the SEA-EWR flight arrives at 1555 and the JFK-DUB flight leaves at 1815. Not enough time to do it on the same day (and below MCT) so it means the connection is +24 hours, which turns it into a second stopover. You can have the stopover in SEA provided you then fly into and out of JFK to DUB. So the problem isnt where the stopover is but the fact that you are trying to have two of them on a one way ticket.
And anything EWR-DUB goes via SEA or SFO so you are backtracking big time. Where did you see SEA-EWR-DUB?
And anything EWR-DUB goes via SEA or SFO so you are backtracking big time. Where did you see SEA-EWR-DUB?
Jan 5, 21, 11:53 pm
#15
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Thank you for your response. I misspoke. I was trying to get the 35K miles and $19 LIH-SEA-JFK-DUB with a stop in SEA. That was the itinerary that the agent kept going back and forth with her superior and the Aer Lingus desk as to why it could not be done. Looking at that flight alone on say June 4th, do you think there is a way to do a stop over in SEA then fly on the scheduled flight SEA-JFK-DUB? THX
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