I visit in June Birthday celebration
I got tickets for flight with miles
Decided to extend visit few days
Alaska has no penalty for change
just difference in cost of money or
miles.
I booked first class for 17.5 thousand miles
today if I change for same flight 35. Thousand miles
one way I went to Europe for 25 thousand miles round trip
what's going on Of course I can go main cabin
Oh boy
Typically, the later you buy your tickets, the more points or cash it takes. Also, certain days of the week are more expensive because of higher demand.
And everything can change daily.
That's very typical, of any company offering points or miles or gabonzas as a "reward." Don't use them immediately, and you'll find that your goodie balance has magically shrunk to almost nothing. Frequent flier miles become frequent flier inches, and you find that it takes 59 million of them to fly from Chicago to Milwaukee.
That's because unused goodies like that are carried on a company's balance sheet as "contingent liabilities," and they can improve their bottom line and make their stockholders happy simply by devaluing those unused goodies.
Minimize the business you do with big corporations, and never trust them, not even for a second.
Thanks for thoughts I've been using miles for years
First Class never more then 15-17 thousand miles
each way I don't mind main cabin Yet kinda nice
on Birthday First class
Happy New Years All
Using miles for first class awards at the "saver" level are tough to come by on ALL airlines now. Why? It's called 'first class monetization' and Delta started it several years ago.
First class seats are now priced closer to coach so more people are paying $ to sit up front. Fewer and fewer seats go to elites for upgrades since these same people are foolishly paying for something the airlines used to give them free. To add insult to injury, the guest experience in first class these days is actually worse than before the Vid. All airlines now have a significant % of new hire flight attendants that are more focused on hiding in the galley playing on their phones than actually serving customers.
Rule of thumb these days is do NOT redeem miles for domestic first class since the value proposition is usually always poor.
Alaska miles are still better than AA, UA or DL but they've been devalued due to joining oneworld. Best to save them for partner redemptions international J class rather than domestic F.
Yes your right
unfortunately I am traveling domestic these days
thanks for information I bit the bullet and sucked up
my miles I will keep my eyes open If fares drop
my miles are refundable
Well after I bit the bullet and used lot of miles Alaska changed my
flight time
originally 8am flight now 7am
Or 1p The 7am less miles so at this
point sticking with it
i did call to get refund of 20k miles Had to request
I I am sure will change again in next few
months
AA on return flight also changed to
a inconvenient time OH well
