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Dreaming of traveling the world? You can get up to 50% bonus on Alaska miles through October 4, 2018. Your exact bonus will be a mystery until you log into your Alaska account. The maximum bonus is 50%.
For a limited time, Alaska Airlines is offering a mystery bonus promotion when you buy miles. You get up to a 50% bonus on Alaska miles through October 4, 2018.
Your bonus will be either 20%, 35%, or 50%. You have to sign into your Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan account to see how much you're offered for a mystery bonus.
There's no limit to how many miles you can buy. You can buy up to 60,000 miles (not counting the bonus) per transaction. This means you can buy 60,000 miles each time. The fine print doesn't state how many transactions are allowed per day. So it could be a daily limit.
If you got the 50% off, buying 60,000 miles gets you 90,000 miles for $1,773.75.
Points generally post in 72 hours. So give yourself at least 3 days for your miles to post before you want to redeem them.
Pro-tip: Purchased miles do not count towards MVP or MVP/Gold status.
Getting a 50% bonus is a good deal but should you buy miles? I've written about the only time you should buy airline miles.
With this promotion, you can buy miles for as little as 1.97 cents per mile. Which is a pretty darn good deal.
Because Bank of America limits how many Alaska Airlines credit cards you can get buying Alaska Airlines miles is a good option.
Pro-tip: Points.com handles the sale you don't earn a travel bonus. So use a card that you need to meet the minimum spending or one that gives you perks for spending like the Hyatt card: 2 elite qualifying nights when you spend $5,000.
I got the 50% bonus offer so I'm buying Alaska miles. There's a First Class award ticket on Emirates with my name on it. 🙂 I'm looking forward to comparing Emirates First Class to the Etihad First Class Apartment and enjoying another mile high shower.
You can use Alaska miles to fly to Singapore.
Normally a one-way First Class ticket on Cathay to Singapore would cost over $9,859. But you can buy 47,000 miles and get 23,500 bonus miles for $1,292.50. That's a savings of over $8,566!
One-way coach flights from the US to Australia only cost 40,000 Alaska miles.
One of the best uses of Alaska miles is on short trips. Alaska Airlines has a distance-based award chart for flights on Alaska Airlines in the US, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Short flights of 700 miles or less on Alaska Airlines are only 5,000 miles.
You can get up to 50% bonus on Alaska miles when you buy points by October 4, 2018.
The exact bonus, 20%, 35%, or 50%, is a mystery and revealed once you log into your Mileage Plan account. You can buy up to 60,000 points per transaction With this offer, your cost per Alaska mile is 1.97 cents per point.
This is a good offer because it's harder to get approved for multiple Alaska Airlines credit cards.
Alaska miles are a great way to visit places like Singapore and Australia.
If you fly short flights of 700 miles or less, it might be cheaper to use miles than buy a ticket.
Where are you going to use your Alaska Airlines miles?