The Different Tiers Of Alaska Airlines’ Mileage Plan Program

Elite standing affords free upgrades and extra advantages with Alaska Airways, and baggage and lounge entry with oneworld companions.

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Elite standing with an airline program is the way you achieve advantages and preferential remedy when flying. With Mileage Plan, elite standing is earned solely from frequent flying, and advantages apply on Alaska Airways flights, in addition to all oneworld companion airways. Upgrades are a giant a part of this system, however alliance membership has introduced way more.

Mileage Plan elite standing ranges

There are 4 ranges inside Mileage Plan, earned with rising flying (measured utilizing “elite qualifying miles”). The highest degree was simply added in 2022 and is designed to reward essentially the most frequent flyers, primarily with the next likelihood of upgrades.

These ranges are:

• MVP. Earned after 20,000 elite qualifying miles.
• MVP Gold. Earned after 40,000 elite qualifying miles.
• MVP Gold 75K. Earned after 75,000 elite qualifying miles.
• MVP Gold 100K. Earned after 100,000 elite qualifying miles.

Now that Alaska Airways is a part of the oneworld alliance, these elite ranges give a corresponding standing inside the alliance. MVP offers oneworld Ruby; MVP Gold offers oneworld Sapphire; MVP 75K, and MVP 100K give oneworld Emerald.

Advantages with Alaska Airways

Every of the 4 elite ranges brings rising advantages with Alaska Airways.

MVP degree advantages embody:

• Free upgrades to top notch (processed 24 hours earlier than departure).
• Free upgrades to premium class at time of reserving (just for tickets in greater reserving courses Y, B, or H).
• Mileage bonus of fifty% on Alaska Airways and most companion airways.
• Precedence examine in and boarding.
• Two free checked baggage.
• Free most well-liked seat choice.
• Low cost on Alaska annual lounge membership of $100.

MVP Gold provides advantages together with:

• Free upgrades to top notch (processed 72 hours previous to departure).
• Free upgrades to premium class at time of reserving (for tickets in reserving courses Y, B, H, Okay, M, L, V, S, or N).
• Companion complimentary upgrades to premium class and top notch (for passengers on the identical reserving).
• 4 one-way visitor improve certificates (legitimate for passengers not touring with you, for tickets in reserving courses Y, B, H, Okay, M, L, V, S, or N).
• Complimentary similar day flight change.
• Mileage bonus of 100% on Alaska Airways and most companion airways.
• A complimentary beverage in most important cabin.

MVP Gold 75K provides:

• A bonus of fifty,000 miles upon qualification.
• Free upgrades to top notch (processed 120 hours previous to departure).
• Free upgrades to premium class at time of reserving (for tickets in all reserving courses besides X)
• One worldwide improve certificates annually for an American Airways flights (one-way, one cabin improve for any printed fare class).
• Mileage bonus of 125% on Alaska Airways and most companion airways.
• Three free checked baggage on all flights.
• 4 Alaska lounge passes.
• Reward Mileage Plan MVP standing to at least one individual.

MVP Gold 100K provides:

• Highest precedence on free upgrades to top notch.
• Two worldwide improve certificates annually for American Airways.
• Mileage bonus of 150% on Alaska Airways and most companion airline.
• A complimentary beverage and snack in most important cabin.
• From January 2023, MVP Gold 100K will add an extra advantage of a 100K Alternative. You possibly can select considered one of 50,000 bonus miles, Lounge membership, the flexibility to present MVP Gold, or complimentary onboard WiFi.

Advantages with oneworld airways and different companions

Now that Alaska Airways has joined the oneworld alliance, elite standing affords advantages on all alliance member airways. This consists of American Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airways, Malaysia Airways, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, and SriLankan Airways.

This standing brings advantages, together with:

• Lounge entry when flying any oneworld airline. Sapphire standing offers enterprise class lounge entry, and Emerald standing offers top notch lounge entry.
• Use of enterprise class or top notch check-in.
• Extra baggage allowance.
• Precedence baggage dealing with.
• Free seat reservation. This varies by airline and will embody exit row seating for Emerald members.

Learn how to earn standing

Elite standing with Mileage Plan is awarded purely based mostly on the extent of flying inside every calendar yr. Many different US applications (together with these of American Airways, Delta Air Traces, and United Airways) now embody a income requirement together with (or as a substitute of) a journey requirement. With these applications, you can not earn elite standing except you meet a minimal quantity of spending with the airline (or probably on related bank cards). This isn’t the case with Mileage Plan.

Standing is earned based mostly on elite qualifying miles. These are the identical as the bottom miles earned from flying, with Alaska Airways, all oneworld airways, and different Mileage Plan companion airways. This consists of the category of service bonus, however not any elite standing bonus. For Alaska Airways flights, this shall be no less than 100% of the miles flown. For companion airways, it may drop to 25% for the bottom fare courses.

These charges are all printed in tables on the Mileage Plan web site. An instance for British Airways is proven under.

Alternatively, you possibly can qualify based mostly on the entire variety of qualifying flight segments flown. These segments could be on Alaska Airways or any companion airline (mainly, any flight which qualifies to earn base miles shall be a qualifying section).

As well as, there’s a minimal variety of segments that have to be flown on Alaska Airways flights to qualify for standing. This is a vital standards to concentrate on, and prevents anybody who can’t / doesn’t fly Alaska Airways from incomes standing (they’ll nonetheless earn and redeem miles, nonetheless).

The complete necessities are:

• MVP. Earned after 20,000 elite qualifying miles OR 30 eligible segments. As well as, 2 eligible segments have to be flown on Alaska Airways.
• MVP Gold. Earned after 40,000 elite qualifying miles OR 60 eligible segments. As well as, 6 eligible segments have to be flown on Alaska Airways.
• MVP Gold 75K. Earned after 75,000 elite qualifying miles OR 90 eligible segments. As well as, 12 eligible segments have to be flown on Alaska Airways.
• MVP Gold 100K. Earned after 100,000 elite qualifying miles OR 140 eligible segments. As well as, 24 eligible segments have to be flown on Alaska Airways.

Do you might have elite standing with Alaska Airways Mileage Plan, or are you working in direction of it? What are the principle advantages you see in this system? Be at liberty to debate this, and examine with different airline applications, within the feedback.