Bad news, Alaska Airlines fans: American express membership rewards The transfers to Hawaiianmiles will end on June 30.
This effectively ends transfers of membership rewards to Alaska Airlines mileage plan.
Since the middle of last year Hawaiianmiles have been transferable to the mileage plan of Alaska AirlinesGiving AMEX card holders an indirect way to transfer their membership reward points to Alaska Airlines. Alaska Airlines introduced this function after it acquired Hawaiian airlines based in Honolulu last year.
While there is no official American Express statement at the time of writing, the bank is publishing this news on the Points Transfer page of the American Express website and the mobile application.
This gives American express card holders approximately one month and a half to transfer their points to Hawaiianmiles (and then to the mileage plan). While we generally do not recommend speculative transfers of a credit points points program to an airline or hotel partner in particular, this could be an exception for Alaska Airlines and Oneworld fans This is because the Alaska Airlines mileage plan offers some of the best awards rates on national short -distance flights and business class transatlantic flights from the east coast.
For example, an economic flight in American Airlines with a distance of less than 700 miles often requires only 4,500 miles of Alaska, and a transatlantic flight of business class between 1,501 and 3,500 miles begins only 45,000 miles in associated airlines such as Aer Lingus. In many cases, these prices are significantly lower than ONEWORLD loyalty programs as competition as American Airlines Aadvantage.
How to transfer membership rewards to Hawaiian Airlines (and Alaska Airlines)
The transfer of AMEX membership rewards points to the mileage plan of Alaska airlines is a two -step process.
First, you must transfer your membership reward points to Hawaiianmiles on the “Rewards and Benefits” page of your American Express account. You can transfer up to 999,000 members of membership rewards to Hawaii per day. In our experience, membership rewards points instantly transfer For Hawaii, although Amex says he can take up to two days.
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If you plan to transfer points of membership rewards to Hawaiian before June 30, keep in mind that you will pay a special tax compensation fee of 0.06 cents per mile, up to a maximum of $ 99 per transfer. You can charge this rate to a American Express or cover it with members of membership. However, we do not recommend redeeming points to cover the rate, since it will only get 0.5 cents per point in value.
Once transfers the membership points of membership to Hawaiian, you can use the airline Point transfer tool To move points between their Hawaiian and Alaska accounts. These transfers also instantly process in most cases.
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While it is unfortunate that the membership points of membership are no longer transferable to Hawaiian Airlines (and, by power, Alaska Airlines), we expected this change. Alaska Airlines has been transparent about its plans to Soon fuse Hawaiianmiles in the mileage plan of Alaska Airlines and finally eliminate credit card transfers.
That said, Bilt rewards The points are transferred to the Alaska Airlines Millaja Plan, so travelers still have a way to win miles from Alaska with a transferable points card.
If you plan to fly with Alaska and its partners soon, you could consider transferring some of your membership reward points to Hawaiianmiles (and then to the mileage plan) before it is too late. Alaska miles are among the most valuable in the space of points and miles, largely due to the low prize prices of the program and an extensive list of non -alliance partners. However, if you do this, it will renounce flexibility and could leave its miles of Alaska open to devaluation if you do not exchange them quickly.
