Alaska Airlines miles are regularly considered some of the highest value in the travel industry due to their unique partnerships and award chart sweet spots. Recently Alaska announced their highest bonus of the year, a tiered promotion offering up to 100% bonus miles when purchasing. Depending on your needs, this can be an awesome deal.
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The Details
This promo is going on now through December 23rd. Click here to navigate to the purchase page. If you have no status, you can acquire up to 150,000 bonus miles per year, though this limit is waived if you have elite status. I have seen reports that the bonus shows up differently for different people – for me, it was a tiered bonus with a maximum of up to 100% miles. Your mileage may vary depending on the promotion that is targeted to you.
- Buy 3,000-9,000 miles, get a 80% bonus
- Buy 10,000-19,000 miles, get a 90% bonus
- Buy 20,000-100,000 miles, get a 100% bonus
Purchases are processed through Points.com, which means that you’ll want to buy these with a card that maximizes everyday spend, like the Citi Double Cash or Capital One Venture card.
Normally, each 1,000 Alaska miles would cost $35.00 with tax included; that is 3.5 cents per mile! Nobody values Alaska miles at more than 2 cents per mile, so at the normal rate, it doesn’t make sense to buy. Buying at least 20,000 miles with this promotion nets you an additional 100% in bonus points, which with tax brings the cost of a point down to 1.75 cents per mile. It’s not hard to find more value than that out of Alaska miles.
You can use your miles on Alaska Airlines flights itself, or on any of their partners. And now that Alaska Airlines is part of the oneworld airline alliance, you can use Alaska miles for travel on most (if not all) oneworld partners.
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Terms and Conditions
- Transactions must be completed between 6:00 AM PT September 15, 2025 and 11:59 PM PT October 10, 2025 to be eligible for up to 100% bonus points.
- Miles are purchased from Points.com Inc. for a cost of $35.00 per 1,000 miles, plus GST/HST for Canadian residents and QST for Quebec residents.
- Miles are non-refundable and do not count toward MVP and MVP/Gold status.
- You may purchase and gift Atmos™ Rewards points in increments of 1,000 points up to 60,000 points, and in increments of 5,000 points up to a maximum of 100,000 points per transaction.
- You may buy or receive as a gift up to a total of 150,000 points in a calendar year. Atmos™ Silver, Atmos™ Gold, Atmos™ Platinum and Atmos™ Titanium members have no annual purchase limit.
- Offer is subject to change and all terms and conditions of the Mileage Plan Program apply.
- *Points.com Inc. is collecting Federal Excise Tax on behalf of Alaska Airlines Inc.
- Alaska Airlines Inc. has the obligation to collect Federal Excise Tax and remit the tax to the appropriate government agency.
Again, here is the link to buy Alaska miles with up to a 100% bonus.
Even though we never recommend speculatively purchasing miles, I’m sorely tempted by this. Are any of you going to take advantage?
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I’d rather a 50% discount.
I used Alaska miles to book Qantas to Australia and then Fiji air on my way back. Both are in Bus. Class. I feel I was lucky in getting those flights.
In general, how hard is it to get saver level awards on their partners?
If you can find the Fiji airlines business class to Fiji, then Fiji to Australia for 55,000, that is a good deal. I have those next February and it comes out to 7.6 cents/mile. The flight cost $4174 in business, but if you can buy 60K points for $1182 that is still quite a good deal.
Thanks for sharing this blog, Keep it up!
What can I do if the promotion it is not offer to me?
When I sign in on my miles account it only shows me 40% bonus and when I enter through you link it stays loading forever.
And I spoke with a representative and he said this:
“Terrie 02:49 am
If it is not offering this to you , when you are logged into your account to purchase miles, then I have to say you will not be able to get this.”
So, do you know if there is something that I can do to have that promotion?
Thank you!
As far as I know, the promotion is tied to your account, so I would agree with the representative that if you don’t see it in your account, you might not be eligible. Do you have friends or family members with other Alaska accounts? You could check those if so
Only one getting a good value is Alaska Airlines selling these miles, which in turn can be used for not much of anything worthwhile these days.
Japan Airlines Business or Qantas has vanished since they joined OnWorld,
Sorry we lost Alaska Airlines Mileage plan,
Does it make more sense to buy the Hawaiin miles offer, then move those to alaska? Since alaska caps the max you can buy per year you could wait until another alaska offer later in the year.
Thoughts
Kind of depends on your unique situation and how many miles you’re planning on buying. Both Alaska and Hawaiian pretty regularly run these promos, but I agree that you definitely want to run the numbers on both of them.