Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Program Offers Double Miles

Alaska Airlines, the full service carrier of US, has a plan to get on more passengers from California destinations. While the usual ways of providing discounted air fares have not been implemented, the airline is offering double of its loyalty rewards points. The Mileage Plan program of the airline is based on the miles flown. This has been at variance with many of the other US airlines that have moved away from miles flown-based program to actual amount spent programs.

This offer would be available for those passengers who are flying non-stop from California. So, these would be available for passengers who have done Alaska Airlines reservations for following routes:

a)      San Francisco and Baltimore

b)      San Francisco and Boston

c)       San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale

d)      San Francisco and JFK

e)      San Francisco and Newark

f)       San Francisco and Orlando

g)      San Francisco and Philadelphia

h)      San Francisco and Raleigh-Durham

i)        San Francisco and Washington Dulles

j)        San Francisco and Washington Reagan National

k)      San Jose and JFK

l)        San Jose and Newark

m)    Los Angeles and Baltimore

n)      Los Angeles and Boston

o)      Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale

p)      Los Angeles and JFK

q)      Los  Angeles and Newark

r)       Los Angeles and Philadelphia

s)       Los Angeles and Washington Dulles

t)       Los Angeles and Washington Reagan National

u)      San Diego and JFK

v)      San Diego and Newark.

So, in all these are two dozen such routes where this offer would be applicable. The reason for this offer is to attract more customers from California to travel to these destination using the cheap air tickets from the airline.  

Alaska Airline Drops in Airline Quality Ranking

Alaska Airlines is also in news due to its drop in ranking from 1^st to 4^th in the last on year as per the annual survey conducted by AQR. AQR has been conducting these surveys for the last 29 years now. The airlines are judged on the basis of baggage mishandled, complaints by customers, punctuality performance and involuntarily denied boarding.

A decline of 3 points is a sharp and this is bound to make Alaska Airlines sit up and take notice of things that are going wrong.