mtofell

No miles earned on flights paid with miles. I'm not sure about fare class for award tickets (it may be it's own class). As MVPG I don't think you should have been able to book directly into PC unless you were in the normal upgrade window (T-48hr?) but it's definitely not far outside of the norm for there to be some IT glitch.

remyjette

MVPG can book directly into PC on N fares or higher. Even MVP can book directly into PC, for free, but only on Y, B, or H fares. https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...class-upgrades

To answer the previous question, award travel on AS does not have a dedicated fare class. Award travel on AS is dynamic and depends on available fare inventory, just like paying cash does.

When you book award travel on AS, you book into the same fare classes that are used as when you pay with cash, and the price of your ticket in miles depends on the city pair and fare class chosen just like a cash ticket. The AS checkout flow for either cash or miles will also show you the cost for that fare class in the other form of payment, as well as some miles+cash options. Just note that if *any* miles are used, it's considered award travel and illegible for earning.

s0ssos

Is it common that Alaska disables or changes the fare if you are booking for more than 1?

I saw a fare of $129 when looking at saver for a route, but when I increased the passengers to 2 it disappeared. And so I booked one person, and then booked another person, both at the $129 rate.

samosa

this is common with all airlines. They have limited fare buckets.

czpdx

And what it also implies is that the system immediately reopens that bucket once the first ticket is sold. So, in a way, there are more seats, but it only doles them out in groups of one. I've seen this with award seats, too, and have snagged multiple lowest-tier award seats the same way.

tobikosan

Not sure if this is the forum so move/strike if not but I have two AA upgrades, have flown little this year and would love some kind of mileage accruing trip to use them and rack up miles. Maybe buy PE or whatever the strategy for most AS miles. I can literally go anywhere for any length of time . Would appreciate any guidance.

s0ssos

The point is they do not have limited buckets.
I mean, on Delta you can book the lowest one and when you try to do the next the fare goes up. Whereas somehow on AS they put another fare in the bucket.
But I also see a disconnect cause main fares and saver seem to have no correlation, as in saver is still there when main has gone up tremendously. And sometimes main is cheap but saver is gone. But this time after I booked up the savers the main fare went up.

BallardFlyer

Is it worth up-faring my ticket to B or Y less then 48 hours but more then 24 hours before departure to try to stay in #1 position for 1 seat? Afraid it will reset my date stamp on the UG list. I'm 100k but just don't want to sit in the middle seat i have right now. F is $1499. Which I might do, but Y is only $800 ish.

anteater

Upfaring should not reset your WL position.

Have you checked the WL already? If you’re #1 no need to give AS more $$.

BallardFlyer

I'm still T-30 so I don't think i can see the list yet. I don't usually sweat this kind of stuff but its been a long time since i've been in a middle seat in coach

SeaLuggageLover

You can see the waitlist ahead of time here: https://www.alaskaair.com/flightstatus

seacarl

I have an upcoming flight and I noticed that the aircraft has been performing quite a few flights numbered in the 7000 flight range, eg today operating as AS7006 SEA-JNU-ANC. The flight doesn't show up in the schedule search and doesn't seem to be bookable.

I'm curious. Are these cruise-related charters? Some kind of test or training flights? Cargo flights (it's a passenger aircraft based on the aircraft info on Flightaware.

ETA: Here is a link the shows the flights performed by N306AS N306AS Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware Currently operating AS7006. Yesterday it flew AS7096 ANC-JNU-CDV-SEA

samosa

seatmap looks empty. Could it be a ferry flight? However doesn’t explain the stops.
https://www.alaskaair.com/status/7006/2022-09-07

seacarl

Right? I can't figure it out. Not on the schedule, can't be booked, empty seat map, flights in that number range multiple days this week on the same aircraft. Seems a bit odd. Check out the link for the aircraft: N306AS Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

PABE

ASA 7xxx flight numbers are Alaska Air Cargo. 7006, specifically, is the cargo milkrun.

https://www.alaskacargo.com/shipping/freighter-schedule

Perhaps they're just cycling a passenger airframe through the cargo run since one of the -700 freighters is in OKC for mx (per the fleet status page).