Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Members Can Now Earn & Redeem For El Al Flights

Alaska Airways Mileage Plan & El Al Israel Airways have simply enhanced their pre-existing partnership and this system now permits mileage redemptions for choose flights of the provider.

Members can redeem Alaska Airways Mileage Plan miles for awards from the U.S. to the Center East and Europe (different routes will not be accessible).

Route and regional restrictions for awards with their airline companions, and that is no exception as the choice to redeem for El Al solely appears to be accessible from North America to the Center East and Europe (vice versa).

This implies for instance, that I couldn’t e-book Bangkok-Tel Aviv if I wished to even when there are common flights scheduled every day.

El Al and Alaska Mileage Plan had a partnership for fairly a while, however to this point, that solely prolonged to incomes miles, and now you all of a sudden have the choice to redeem as nicely.

Mileage Plan hasn’t revealed any award chart at this level, unusual sufficient. The awards simply all of a sudden popped up on the web site when looking:

To journey from New York JFK/EWR to Tel Aviv the next charges apply:

• Economic system Class: 50,000 Miles a method
• Premium Economic system: 80,000 Miles a method
• Enterprise Class: 100,000 Miles a method

The extra surcharges are minimal, simply the airport taxes and authorities charges however no gas surcharges.

Right here is the right way to earn miles on Mileage Plan with El Al:

The incomes charges are literally fairly engaging. There’s additionally a reference to redeeming miles on the identical web page however as I discussed earlier than, no award charts or references to precise routes or awards.

Charges for redemptions aren’t precisely low cost however no surcharges imply that it’s nonetheless attainable to have a worthwhile award when you generate Alaska miles cheaply sufficient.

Conclusion

Alaska Airways Mileage Plan and El Al Israel Airways have upgraded their frequent flyer partnership and now it’s attainable to redeem Mileage Plan miles to e-book award tickets on El Al.

Availability was fairly good at any time when I appeared however possibly that’s the case as a result of it has simply been opened, though I’d think about that Alaska doesn’t use a separate/personal award stock for MP redemptions however that it’s based mostly on what El Al makes accessible even to their very own members.

Pals instructed me that tickets on El Al are normally fairly costly as demand is excessive however today there are such a lot of carriers that fly from the U.S. to Tel Aviv that it may need change into extra reasonable. I used to be somewhat shocked by the excessive redemption charges.