When it introduced its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines, Alaska Airways promised that elite members of every program would have the ability to standing match.
That standing match is now reside, as first flagged by Gary Leff at View from the Wing.
The airways will ultimately have one loyalty program, however within the meantime, reciprocal elite standing is fairly cool.
It is pretty easy. You simply have to go to this particular status match landing 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 may match that to elite standing on the opposite provider.
| In case you have | You will 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 chance right here to mix your earnings in each applications into one degree of standing. For instance, when you’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 might 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 may even ultimately be extra redemption choices and the power to take pleasure in choose elite advantages throughout each airways.
This can 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 glad 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 ready to decide on extra-legroom seats on Alaska flights. Alaska’s partnership with American Airways implies that after I fly on Alaska flights, the provider acknowledges my top-tier American Airlines AAdvantage status. 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 will earn instantaneous standing for 90 days by matching out of your present airline elite standing; there’s a chance to increase that standing by way of the tip of 2025 when you 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 Strains Diamond Medallion standing, I’d contemplate it.
Extra causes Alaska Mileage Plan seems fascinating now
Actually, I’m contemplating going for Alaska standing subsequent yr. There are quite a lot 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 primarily based on precise flight miles. This makes incomes top-tier Mileage Plan standing simpler when you do not buy quite a lot of costly airplane tickets. Alaska additionally made several positive changes on the status-earning entrance. Alaska Mileage Plan members will now earn miles on award redemptions, and there may even be new methods to spend towards standing.
As of Jan. 1, 2025, cardholders with the present Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® credit 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 would 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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Be aware, too, that Alaska is providing waitlist entry for a new premium card that it says will assist holders speed up their path to standing.
One different factor to bear in mind for now: Hawaiian Airways stays a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards. I am contemplating transferring some factors to Hawaiian that might 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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