Mileage Requirement for Alaska Segment on Partner Award
Feb 22, 2023, 12:24 pm
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Mileage Requirement for Alaska Segment on Partner Award
Recently i have had issue with getting space appearing on the website on my PDX-SEA SEA-PDX flights for connecting flights to my Aer Lingus and BA flights on AS awards.
I see Alaska flights available for 9k and 11k for Y and 15k for F but i cannot book them online and agents refuse in most cases to add them to flights. This started happening when the 9k and 11k buckets started appearing on that route.
What is the mileage requirement for the Alaska segment to be added to a partner booking? In the past my rule of thumb was that it was available for 12.5k in Y and 25K in F i should be able to add those to for an example a BA itinerary, is that still the case?
I see Alaska flights available for 9k and 11k for Y and 15k for F but i cannot book them online and agents refuse in most cases to add them to flights. This started happening when the 9k and 11k buckets started appearing on that route.
What is the mileage requirement for the Alaska segment to be added to a partner booking? In the past my rule of thumb was that it was available for 12.5k in Y and 25K in F i should be able to add those to for an example a BA itinerary, is that still the case?
Feb 22, 2023, 12:38 pm
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T class. Or E for First Class.
Feb 22, 2023, 12:49 pm
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I use this as my rule of thumb. So you are looking for 5,000/15,000 mile awards, but they still have to be in T/E class.
Or a similar chart from the AS site. https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...ID:MileagePlan
Or a similar chart from the AS site. https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...ID:MileagePlan
Feb 22, 2023, 1:13 pm
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Feb 22, 2023, 1:50 pm
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This is becoming a huge problem with AS international awards. No available space to get to an international hub.
Feb 22, 2023, 2:29 pm
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This is what I encountered when looking for AS segment to get to DEN for international award.
Cannot see fare class for AS domestic award segment. Even when I did dummy booking, no fare class noted.
Finally, got trial Expertflyer subscription to research T and E for for those days. T0 and E0 for those days.
I ended up buying SEA / DEN . Could change down the road….
Interesting side note…
Had to do emergency next day travel , fares were super high. Used miles to book Award F. Fare class for ticket was D.
No miles in account but curious why D fare.
Cannot see fare class for AS domestic award segment. Even when I did dummy booking, no fare class noted.
Finally, got trial Expertflyer subscription to research T and E for for those days. T0 and E0 for those days.
I ended up buying SEA / DEN . Could change down the road….
Interesting side note…
Had to do emergency next day travel , fares were super high. Used miles to book Award F. Fare class for ticket was D.
No miles in account but curious why D fare.
Feb 23, 2023, 12:40 pm
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Feb 23, 2023, 12:54 pm
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I did have a situation with an Alaska award on AA that was interesting. Trying to book American EZE-DFW-SEA but there was never any DFW-SEA space. I went ahead and booked an award ticket for EZE-DFW and put an expert flyer alert on T space for DFW-SEA. A few days later I got an EF notification that T space had opened on American, but it did not show up on the Alaska site as available. I called in and they were manually able to see the open space and added it to my reservation.
Feb 23, 2023, 2:44 pm
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I did have a situation with an Alaska award on AA that was interesting. Trying to book American EZE-DFW-SEA but there was never any DFW-SEA space. I went ahead and booked an award ticket for EZE-DFW and put an expert flyer alert on T space for DFW-SEA. A few days later I got an EF notification that T space had opened on American, but it did not show up on the Alaska site as available. I called in and they were manually able to see the open space and added it to my reservation.
Apr 17, 2023, 12:33 pm
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so, has anyone score any of the nonstop 'saver' domestic these days (T class for economy, E class for first) as a tagged on to / from AS award international flights?
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev
Apr 17, 2023, 1:43 pm
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so, has anyone score any of the nonstop 'saver' domestic these days (T class for economy, E class for first) as a tagged on to / from AS award international flights?
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev
I was recently looking at HNL-SEA-JFK and F awards were 75K per segment; 150K total. Yet, looking at JFK-TYO later in the year there are options with an AS transcon to the Western gateway in AS F.
I would be looking at a seperate award or revenue ticket this late in the game if you haven't already secured something.
James
Last edited by Flying for Fun; Apr 17, 2023 at 11:41 pm
Apr 17, 2023, 5:33 pm
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[QUOTE=Flying for Fun;35178100]
yeah I am also thinking of purchasing it as rev flights. still abt 4 months away for me though since it is tail end of summer but saver rev is good price now
the AS agent told me to check in again on the saver domestic award at 10 weeks before flight
decisions decisions
so, has anyone score any of the nonstop 'saver' domestic these days (T class for economy, E class for first) as a tagged on to / from AS award international flights?
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev[/QUOTE]
Too far out? Summer is two month away! AS is likely selling awards on any flight that will get you to the gateway, just not at the saver level that can be combined; those will have been booked many months ago it there was any availability. The dynamic prices on any awards won't be getting any cheaper as it gets closer to summer.
I was recently looking at HNL-SEA-JFK and F awards were 75K per segment; 150K total. Yet, looking at JFK-TYO later in the year there are options with an AS transcon to the Western gateway in AS F.
I would be looking at a seperate award or revenue ticket this late in the game if you haven't already secured something.
James
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev[/QUOTE]
Too far out? Summer is two month away! AS is likely selling awards on any flight that will get you to the gateway, just not at the saver level that can be combined; those will have been booked many months ago it there was any availability. The dynamic prices on any awards won't be getting any cheaper as it gets closer to summer.
I was recently looking at HNL-SEA-JFK and F awards were 75K per segment; 150K total. Yet, looking at JFK-TYO later in the year there are options with an AS transcon to the Western gateway in AS F.
I would be looking at a seperate award or revenue ticket this late in the game if you haven't already secured something.
James
the AS agent told me to check in again on the saver domestic award at 10 weeks before flight
decisions decisions
May 19, 2023, 5:07 pm
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so, has anyone score any of the nonstop 'saver' domestic these days (T class for economy, E class for first) as a tagged on to / from AS award international flights?
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev
having difficulty getting one for the summer months (fri/sat/sun)
maybe it's too far out so AS still trying to sell them as rev
AS refuses to add this domestic leg to my existing international award flight
according to the agent i spoke to, in order to do an update like that, i need both my international legs and domestic legs to be available at this moment in time as a contiguous award ticket. all of us know that is unlikely since the international award seat is long gone. but my question is is the agent right for saying this? is this the new AS policy?
May 20, 2023, 9:54 am
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i called up AS today, bc i found a 'saver' domestic fare today
AS refuses to add this domestic leg to my existing international award flight
according to the agent i spoke to, in order to do an update like that, i need both my international legs and domestic legs to be available at this moment in time as a contiguous award ticket. all of us know that is unlikely since the international award seat is long gone. but my question is is the agent right for saying this? is this the new AS policy?
AS refuses to add this domestic leg to my existing international award flight
according to the agent i spoke to, in order to do an update like that, i need both my international legs and domestic legs to be available at this moment in time as a contiguous award ticket. all of us know that is unlikely since the international award seat is long gone. but my question is is the agent right for saying this? is this the new AS policy?