Today Alaska Airlines launched an initiative similar to Air Canada when you can convert Alaska Airlines wallet credit to Mileage Plan miles. Think of it as Air Canada’s option that allows you cancel tickets you have bought and convert them to Aeroplan miles. Aeroplan gives you a 65% bonus on the miles you receive based on their standard buy miles rate which works out to buying those Aeroplan miles for well under 2 cents per mile. This Alaska offer is just as generous if not more – there isn’t a bonus but what they are doing is giving qualifying members 10,000 miles for every $100 in Alaska Airlines wallet credit. This means you are buying those very lucrative Mileage Plan Miles for only 1 cent (US$) each!
Here are the terms of this offer:
Offer valid through October 12, 2020 11:59 pm (PT): Qualifying members who receive this offer directly from Alaska Airlines via email can exchange Alaska
wallet funds in increments of 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% of their current
wallet balance for Mileage Plan bonus miles at an exchange rate of 100
miles per $1. Bonus miles are redeemable
for award travel, but do not count toward elite status
qualification. All wallet exchanges for miles are final, and wallet
credit once redeemed is not refundable. If wallet balance at the time of
debit is below what is needed to cover the exchange, the exchange will
be canceled. Offer cannot be combined with any other offer. All Mileage
Plan terms and conditions apply. Mileage Plan miles do not expire, but
if a Mileage Plan account is inactive for 2 years, Alaska Airlines may
close the account; miles in a closed account can be reinstated for a fee
for up to 1 year after closure. Exchanging wallet credit for Mileage
Plan miles pursuant to this offer does qualify as account activity, so
your Mileage Plan account will remain active for at least 2 years after
the effective date of the exchange.
If you are one who gets this offer in your email you should really consider jumping on it considering Alaska Airlines are flying very few of their Canadian routes! For example if you have $500 in your Alaska Airlines wallet you would get 50,000 Mileage Plan miles. Those miles are worth way more than $500! We value Mileage Plan miles at no less than 1.5 cents (US$) each so you would be coming out well ahead and as long as you keep your Mileage Plan account active you can have those miles banked for as long as you need.