Alaska Airline's Exciting Mileage Plan Enhancements | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep277 | 10-18-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Alaska Airlines is making some big changes in 2025! We'll talk about why we think these changes are exciting...(and will share an exciting announcement of our own!)
(01:20) - Greg was recently curious about if the Hawaiian Miles personal card would be getting elevated offers and one reader says the answer is yes! Check your emails for higher offers!
Listen to our episode about the Hawaiian / Alaska merger here: https://frequentmiler.com/podcast-alaska-hawaiian-airlines-wedding-planning-frequent-miler-on-the-air-ep269-8-23-24/
(03:25) - Fly 15 SkyTeam airlines (and credit to SAS or redeem SAS miles) by end of year and get 1 MILLION MILES... you all had ideas for us related to this challenge...
(05:29) - Greg's post "Catching up on 2 weeks of big miles & points news" (Read the post here: https://frequentmiler.com/catching-up-on-2-weeks-of-big-miles-points-news)
(07:04) - For the first time ever, the FM team will do 2nd challenge within 1 year...and we want you to participate!
Read more about our newest challenge here: https://frequentmiler.com/start-your-engines-for-frequent-miler-million-mile-madness/
(19:47) - Alaska / Hawaiian transfers live
(22:28) - Spirit Airlines adds free WiFi and ditches award fees for Free Spirit members.
(23:56) - Virgin Atlantic to go to dynamic award pricing - companion and upgrade vouchers may become more usable
(28:33) - Choice Privileges max award pricing for Preferred Hotels reduced from 118k to 87k. Only 9 out of 310 are currently priced 80K or higher. Meanwhile, 68 properties are priced 30K or lower.
(30:43) - Bilt adds Accor Live Limitless and TAP Air Portugal as transfer partners.
(36:18) - Marriott & Aeroplan launch reciprocal status match opportunity.
(42:42) - Huge mostly positive changes to Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan coming 2025...
Read more about the changes to Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan here: https://frequentmiler.com/alaska-mileage-plan-updates-earn-status-with-award-flights-credit-cards-shopping-portal-spend-more-other-changes/
(43:03) - Earning Elite Status with Alaska Airlines
(53:59) - Mileage Plan Milestones
(1:04:46) - Other changes
(1:13:11) - Some more negative changes
(1:15:14) - Summary of our assessments
(1:17:46) - Someone wrote in asking if the Alaska changes change our mind about whether it makes sense to earn Alaska miles when paying rent through Bilt
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, Alaska's exciting mileage plan enhancements. |
| 0:32.2 | On today's show, we're going to be talking not just about Alaska's announcement about all |
| 0:37.3 | these big changes they're making |
| 0:38.7 | for 2025, but also we have an exciting announcement of our own. So stay tuned for that shortly |
| 0:46.8 | in the show. Very interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited. For once, enhancements actually means |
| 0:53.0 | enhancements. And so we're going to talk about what some of those real enhance. Usually they use their word enhancement in a marketing email. And I'm like, uh-oh. Don't enhance it. Don't simplify it. I don't want those. But this is one of those times where I think maybe some readers will feel differently. All right, but we'll talk about that in a few minutes. |
| 1:11.2 | And if you'd like to skip ahead or come back to a segment, remember, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description of the show and you'll be able to find those timestamps to jump to the segment of the show that you want to jump to. And wherever you're listening to this or watching this, don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up, leave some feedback, leave a review for the show. |
| 1:28.9 | We appreciate all of those things. |
| 1:31.0 | All right. |
| 1:31.3 | Great. watching this. Don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up, leave some feedback, leave a review for |
| 1:28.4 | the show. We appreciate all of those things. All right, Greg, drag out this week's giant mailbag. |
| 1:34.3 | All right, today's giant mail. We've got a lot of mail here. First up is Spencer. Spencer wrote |
| 1:40.3 | in, Greg was recently curious about whether the Hawaiian Miles personal card would be getting elevated offers. |
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