When it introduced its acquisition of Hawaiian Airways, Alaska Airways promised that elite members of every program would be capable to standing match.
That standing match is now reside, as first flagged by Gary Leff at View from the Wing.
The airways will finally have one loyalty program, however within the meantime, reciprocal elite standing is fairly cool.
It is pretty simple. You simply must go to this particular standing match touchdown web page, log in to your Alaska Mileage Plan account, after which log in to your HawaiianMiles account.
In case you have standing with Alaska Mileage Plan or HawaiianMiles, you’ll be able to match that to elite standing on the opposite service.
| In case you have | You may be matched to |
|---|---|
| Alaska Mileage Plan MVP standing | HawaiianMiles Pualani Gold standing |
| Alaska Mileage Plan MVP Gold, MVP Gold 75K or MVP Gold 100K standing | HawaiianMiles Pualani Platinum standing |
| HawaiianMiles Pualani Gold standing | Alaska Mileage Plan MVP standing |
| HawaiianMiles Pualani Platinum standing | Alaska Mileage Plan MVP Gold standing |
Even when you do not have standing with both airline, there’s additionally a possibility right here to mix your earnings in each packages into one stage of standing. For instance, if you happen to’ve earned 20,000 miles with Alaska and 20,000 miles with Hawaiian, you’d have 40,000 miles in a mixed account. That is sufficient to get you Alaska Airways MVP Gold standing.
Do not forget that members will retain their present miles and may now additionally switch their miles between accounts at a 1:1 ratio.
Alaska says members will quickly have the power to earn HawaiianMiles miles on Alaska flights and Mileage Plan miles on Hawaiian Airways flights. There can even finally be extra redemption choices and the power to get pleasure from choose elite advantages throughout each airways.
This will likely be useful because the airways start working flights for one another. For instance, I observed that my upcoming Alaska Airways flight to Hawaii in April had been hit with a schedule change. After I known as Alaska to determine what was up with the flight, the agent advised me that the Bay Space flights presently being flown by Alaska would quickly be operated by Hawaiian Airways.
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I do not presently have elite standing with both airline. But when I did, I might have been blissful to get Hawaiian Airways standing in order that I might choose higher seats on these flights that can now be operated by Hawaiian.
Due to my American Airways standing, I used to be in a position to decide on extra-legroom seats on Alaska flights. Alaska’s partnership with American Airways signifies that after I fly on Alaska flights, the service acknowledges my top-tier American Airways AAdvantage standing. That will not work with Hawaiian.
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You can even nonetheless standing match from different airways to Alaska
One different factor to notice: Alaska remains to be providing a standing problem you probably have elite standing with one other airline. You may earn on the spot standing for 90 days by matching out of your present airline elite standing; there’s a possibility to increase that standing by way of the tip of 2025 if you happen to fly as few as 5,000 miles on Alaska-operated flights (20,000 miles for MVP Gold 75K). Since I’ve top-tier Delta Air Traces Diamond Medallion standing, I would think about it.
Extra causes Alaska Mileage Plan seems fascinating now
The truth is, I’m contemplating going for Alaska standing subsequent 12 months. There are a variety of interesting developments from Alaska Mileage Plan and from the merger.
Alaska is now the one main U.S. airline that allows you to earn elite standing from flights based mostly on precise flight miles. This makes incomes top-tier Mileage Plan standing simpler if you happen to do not buy a variety of costly aircraft tickets. Alaska additionally made a number of constructive adjustments on the status-earning entrance. Alaska Mileage Plan members will now earn miles on award redemptions, and there can even be new methods to spend towards standing.
As of Jan. 1, 2025, cardholders with the present Alaska Airways Visa Signature® bank card will earn 1 elite qualifying mile for each $3 spent, as much as a complete of 30,000 EQMs annually on certified purchases. That might get you a very good a part of the best way towards top-tier 100K standing, which requires 100,000 EQMs.
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Word, too, that Alaska is providing waitlist entry for a brand new premium card that it says will assist holders speed up their path to standing.
One different factor to remember for now: Hawaiian Airways stays a switch associate of American Specific Membership Rewards. I am contemplating transferring some factors to Hawaiian that will flip into Alaska miles.
Within the meantime, you probably have standing in both program, it in all probability is sensible so that you can standing match.
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