Alaska Airlines confirms details about new premium passes coming next year, including companion passes

There’s more news about a new premium credit card announced for 2025 from Alaska Airlines. The team at Alaska has confirmed details about the benefits the card’s new companion certificate feature will bring, as first reported by Gary Leff at View From the Wing based on a conversation with Brett Catlin, vice president of loyalty, alliances and sales for Alaska.

EQUAL we have reported Tuesday, Alaska made several important announcements about its future, including adding flights to Asia from its Seattle hub, reconfiguring its route network following its merger with Hawaii. completed and added new waiting rooms. It also confirmed that it will add a premium product to its credit card line next summer.

Alaska says the new premium card will include an upgraded version of the current card. Alaska Companion Fare Benefits It’s a privilege Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Credit Card and Alaska Airlines Visa® business card.

Alaska is calling the enhanced version of the companion benefit the “Global Companion Award Certificate” that will be valid on international flights, including on some partner airlines.

Now, Alaska is confirming that companion certificates will be valid for any class of service (including first or business class), for any Alaska mile redemptions, including digital awards Partner miles.

Cardholders will receive one certificate just for holding 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 requirements will be.

The certificates will also come with different mileage limits which we also don’t know about yet. The mileage limit on certificates you earn through spending will be higher. Customers will also be able to “top up” companion certificates, Caitlin said. That sounds similar to how Marriott Bonvoy credit card holders can adds up to 15,000 points to the free night certificate value Comes with options Marriott credit card. Alaska’s new certificates could work in a similar way.

We’ll have to wait to see how valuable the new Global Companion Award Certificate actually is, 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 qualifying foreign shopping and dining, which is quite attractive.

Alaska confirmed the card will allow customers to waive the $12.50 booking award fee that Alaska applies to partner mileage award bookings. It won’t give up fuel surcharge partners like British Airways impose a tax on award redemptions.

Finally, the new card will allow owners to accelerate their path to attainment Alaska Mileage Plan Statusalthough no details are available yet.

Get 500 free Alaska Mileage plan miles just for joining the waitlist

There is an exciting opportunity for Alaska Mileage Plan members now to earn 500 Alaska Mileage Plan miles just for getting themselves on the waitlist for the newly announced premium card from Alaska, and another 5,000 bonus miles for being one of the first approved Fancy new card in addition to the welcome bonus it finally offers.

To earn the 500 mile Alaska Mileage Plan bonus, you must join the waiting list before December 31.

Once the card application is open, you can use the exclusive link sent to you by Alaska. Then, if your application is approved, you’ll receive 5,000 bonus miles on top of the card’s welcome bonus (which we expect to be lucrative).

Signing up is simple and you will receive a confirmation message after registering.

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“I think when we looked at our credit card portfolio, we saw that that niche was lacking and so we talked about it a lot and we wanted to have a credit card product that was attractive and brought bring attractive benefits to its customers,” said. Alaska CEO Ben Minicucci In an interview with Air Show Podcast.

“It will add significant value to our loyalty program,” he added.

As soon as we have more details about the new card and its benefits, we’ll have a full TPG analysis of the pros and cons and who it might be suitable for, so be sure to check out again.

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