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Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points.

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Today's coffee break, American Airlines versus Alaska miles, which are better.

So recently, Built has gained Alaska Airlines as a transfer partner. That's huge news,

but it was followed right on the heels

of us learning that they're going to be losing American Airlines as a transfer partner

in June. And so a friend asked me, well, is it net even net positive, net negative?

You know, is this good or bad that basically built is replacing American with Alaska?

And so that had me thinking about, well, which airline miles are better?

If you could only have one, Alaska or American, which would you be better off with? And so that's what we're going to discuss in today's coffee break. Very good. And so we should start out, actually, let me start out by reminding everybody. You can always find links to the timestamps in the show notes. So check that out. And don't forget to check out frequent mile around the air, our full length episodes also, because we have a more full-length show.

This is our 20-minute coffee break where we kind of condense things in in a short form. So please check that out. Don't forget to like and subscribe wherever you're watching. All right. So American in Alaska, a little bit of a trade here, one for the other. And they're very similar in a lot of ways because both of them are now one world Airlines. So they have access to some of the same partners, many of the same partners since they're both in the One World Alliance.

They're both U.S. based.

So they're relatively familiar to most of us because they're airlines based here in our country.

And there's no bank points program that transfers to either of them. So, and that's, you know,

you may say, oh, whoa, whoa, we built transfers soon. That's true, but built rewards is a

rewards program, not a bank. And so there's no bank program like, you know, American Express or

city or whatever that transfers to either of these programs. So they're relatively harder to get than other types

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