There’s more news on the recently announced premium credit card coming in 2025 from Alaska Airlines. The Alaska team confirmed details about what the card’s new add-on certificate feature will benefit, as first reported by Gary Leff in View from the wing Based on a conversation with Brett Catlin, vice president of loyalty, alliances and sales for Alaska.
As we inform On Tuesday, Alaska made some big announcements about its future, including adding flights to Asia from its Seattle hub, realigning its route network now that it has merged with Hawaiian, and adding new lounges. It also confirmed that it would be adding a premium product to its line of credit cards next summer.
Alaska said the new premium card will include an upgraded version of its current Alaska Companion Fee Benefit That comes as an advantage of Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Credit Card and the Alaska Airlines Visa® Commercial Card.
Alaska calls the enhanced version of the companion benefit a “Global Companion Award Certificate” that will be valid on international flights, including some partner airlines.
Alaska now confirms that the companion certificate will be valid for any class of service (including first class or business class), on any Alaska mileage redemption, including partner mileage awards.
Cardholders will earn a certificate just for having the card and will receive a second certificate if they meet certain spending requirements on the card, although we don’t know what the spending requirement will be.
The certificates will also reportedly come with different mileage limits, something we also don’t know yet. The mileage limit on the certificate you earn through spending will be higher. Caitlin said customers will also be able to “top-up” supplemental certificates. This sounds similar to how Marriott Bonvoy credit card holders can add up to 15,000 additional points to the value of free night certificates that come with select marriott credit cards. Alaska’s new certificates could work similarly.
We’ll have to wait to find out how valuable the new Global Companion Award Certificates really are, but it’s certainly an exciting development.
Here are some other things we know about the new premium card. The annual fee will be $395. The card will also earn 3 miles per dollar spent on all eligible foreign purchases and dining, which is pretty attractive.
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Alaska confirmed that the card will allow customers to waive the $12.50 award ticket booking fee that Alaska applies to members’ mileage award bookings. Will not give up fuel surcharges partners like British Airways to charge taxes on award redemptions.
Finally, the new card will allow its holders to accelerate their path to Alaska Mileage Plan Statusalthough there are no public details yet.
Earn 500 free Alaska Mileage miles just for joining the waitlist
There is a fun opportunity to Alaska Mileage Plan members right now to earn 500 Alaska Mileage Plan miles just for getting on a waitlist for Alaska’s newly announced premium card, and another 5,000 bonus miles for being one of the first approved for the fancy new card, plus the welcome bonus. he finally offers.
To earn the Alaska Mileage Plan 500 bonus miles, you must join the waiting list before December 31.
Once card applications are open, you will be able to use a unique link that Alaska will send you. Then, if your application is approved, you’ll receive 5,000 bonus miles on top of the card’s welcome bonus (which we hope is lucrative).
Registration is easy and you will receive a confirmation notification after registering.
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“I think when we looked at our credit card portfolio, we saw that niche was missing, so we talked about it a lot and wanted to have a credit card offering that was attractive and had attractive benefits for our customers,” said Ben Minicucci, Alaska CEO, in an interview with The Air Show Podcast.
“It will add significant value to our loyalty program,” he added.
As soon as we get more details on the new card and its benefits, we’ll have a full TPG analysis of the pros and cons and who it might be right for, so be sure to check back.
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