The Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan buy miles bonus is back and that bonus is up to 60% more miles until August 16, 2025, This version of the offer is a mystery bonus and will be revealed when you login, personally I was targeted with a 50% bonus.
With a 60% bonus you’ll be buying Mileage Plan miles at 1.85 US cents plus GST/HST, which makes the final price range between 1.94 an 2.13 US cents per mile.
As it can be relatively easy to redeem at over 2 cents per mile (US$) for premium class award flights (including PorterReserve – see below) it can make sense to buy the miles as long as you can find those golden nuggets for redemptions!
The up to 60% bonus
Receive up to 60% Bonus Mileage Plan Miles when you buy or gift miles. This is a mystery bonus and your offer will be revealed when you login. This offer is valid until Aug 16, 25 Buy Alaska Miles Here
The up to 60% bonus offer is broken down as follows:
- Buy 3,000 – 19,000 miles receive a 40% bonus
- Buy 20,000 – 39,000 miles receive a 50% bonus
- Buy 40,000 – 100,000 miles receive a 60% bonus
Does it make sense to buy Mileage Plan miles?
Yes in some cases it does! Those cases tend to be for premium cabin redemptions (business or first class) on Alaska’s partner airlines like JAL, Cathay, Korean and Condor. Although as of late, those best business class redemptions have been really slim pickings via Mileage Plan and have been harder to find. So I would find your award flights first and then buy the miles – not vice versa.
As promised I said I’d look into whether there is value for buying Mileage Plan miles to redeem on Porter Airlines as that option came into effect on July 1 (Read all about that here!)
Let’s take a look at a PorterReserve fare between Toronto and Montreal
If you were to buy miles with a 60% bonus (40,000 miles or more) you would end up paying paying roughly 2.53 cents C$ per mile and say you live in Ontario you’ll have to pay HST on top of that for a total of 2.86 cents per mile. Multiply that by the 12,000 required for the round trip flight and you are at $343. Now we also have to take into account the $89.08 in fees on the Mileage Plan award flight which is roughly C$121. Add that to the $343 and you get $464 as your total cost for this flight which is $110 cheaper than buying the flight directly from Porter!
So it does appear there may be times that buying miles from Alaska Airlines during these sales will even make sense for flights on Porter Airlines!
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Originally posted on June 12, 2024 @ 2:18 pm
