Alaska Ski Free. Who benefits? Alaska? Resort? Both?
Jan 29, 2022, 10:48 pm
#1
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Alaska Ski Free. Who benefits? Alaska? Resort? Both?
We’ve taken advantage of Alaska Ski Free deals for several years at different resorts. (Generally if you fly Alaska, you get a free lift ticket on day of arrival or departure). We always speculate about what the financial arrangement is between Alaska and these resorts around this deal.
Anyone know??
Anyone know??
Jan 29, 2022, 11:06 pm
#2
Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: ANC
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We’ve taken advantage of Alaska Ski Free deals for several years at different resorts. (Generally if you fly Alaska, you get a free lift ticket on day of arrival or departure). We always speculate about what the financial arrangement is between Alaska and these resorts around this deal.
Anyone know??
Anyone know??
For reference here is the current offer page for Alyeska on the Alaska Air site: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/explore/ski/alyeska
Jan 30, 2022, 10:29 am
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Join Date: Jan 2022
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We’ve taken advantage of Alaska Ski Free deals for several years at different resorts. (Generally if you fly Alaska, you get a free lift ticket on day of arrival or departure). We always speculate about what the financial arrangement is between Alaska and these resorts around this deal.
Anyone know??
Anyone know??
Jan 30, 2022, 11:46 am
#4
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Nobody, since the rules are you must use it on the day of arrival. So for those who are flying from the continental US to most of alaska will probably be arriving later in the day. So your skiing would be quite limited.
I talked to an aleyaska employee the day after our arrival, saying how we landed at 9PM the day before and if there’s anything she could do. She replied “yeah I know it’s stupid, cuz alaska only pays us if it’s the day of, we’ve had multiple people bring this up to us”
I talked to an aleyaska employee the day after our arrival, saying how we landed at 9PM the day before and if there’s anything she could do. She replied “yeah I know it’s stupid, cuz alaska only pays us if it’s the day of, we’ve had multiple people bring this up to us”
Jan 30, 2022, 11:57 am
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Jan 30, 2022, 1:16 pm
#6
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: USA
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Nobody, since the rules are you must use it on the day of arrival. So for those who are flying from the continental US to most of alaska will probably be arriving later in the day. So your skiing would be quite limited.
I talked to an aleyaska employee the day after our arrival, saying how we landed at 9PM the day before and if there’s anything she could do. She replied “yeah I know it’s stupid, cuz alaska only pays us if it’s the day of, we’ve had multiple people bring this up to us”
I talked to an aleyaska employee the day after our arrival, saying how we landed at 9PM the day before and if there’s anything she could do. She replied “yeah I know it’s stupid, cuz alaska only pays us if it’s the day of, we’ve had multiple people bring this up to us”
Jan 30, 2022, 3:51 pm
#7
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: TPA, MCO
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Does this apply for ski tickets only or also for ski lessons as well ie. Alyeska? As a Floridian I am not exactly an experienced skier but never turn down the opportunity to do it, even it means taking lessons until I get better.
Jan 30, 2022, 9:47 pm
#8
Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: ANC
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Tip at Alyeska if you're on the beginner side and if you are able to ski during the week: buy a lower mountain lift ticket, it's the bargain of the century. Even less for military, students, seniors, etc. And if you'll ski more than one day then buy the lower mountain Choice pass -- a one-time payment of $20 for the RFID card gets you a 20% discount on your daily lift ticket for the rest of the season.
Jan 30, 2022, 11:09 pm
#9
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No idea about the financial arrangements but I'll *guess* the ski resort is sending marketing cash to Alaska Air rather than the other way around. They can both benefit, Alaska Air sells some tickets and the resort gets some likely multi-day customers.
For reference here is the current offer page for Alyeska on the Alaska Air site: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/explore/ski/alyeska
For reference here is the current offer page for Alyeska on the Alaska Air site: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/explore/ski/alyeska
Jan 31, 2022, 9:00 am
#10
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This program has always struck me as difficult to use -- given the day of arrival/departure requirement -- and based on the generally declining number of resorts in this program I have to think that if the resort doesn't NEED more marketing help then this is an easy one to get out of. But then yesterday a buddy texted me that they flew PDX-GEG on an early flight, drove up to Schweitzer and were skiing for free that afternoon in dumping snow so -- clearly it's useful for some people!