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Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan has an interesting offer for up to a 50% discount on award flights to six international destinations. These featured destinations change each quarter, and this month’s lineup includes routes to foodie-favorite cities in Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and more.
You'll need to book this month and fly during a specific period in early 2025. Here's everything you need to know.
Save Up to 50% on These Alaska Airlines Award Tickets
This promotion from Alaska Airlines applies to six destinations with discounted award flights at the following “starting at” prices:
- Monterrey, Mexico (MTY): Starting at 10,000 miles
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (EZE): Starting at 20,000 miles
- Naples, Italy (NAP): Starting at 20,000 miles
- Lisbon, Portugal (LIS): Starting at 22,500 miles
- Tbilisi, Georgia (TBS): Starting at 25,000 miles
- Bangkok, Thailand (BKK): Starting at 30,000 miles
Do you actually get a 50% award discount?
If you'd like to book an award flight on these routes, you'll notice that these “starting at” prices are better than what you'll typically pay. However, the taxes and fees are not discounted. Moreover, these are discounts, but they aren't 50% on every route.
Ordinarily, a one-way award ticket between Philadelphia (PHL) and Naples (NAP) operated by American Airlines will cost you 27,500 Mileage Plan miles. With this promotion, you'll pay 20,000 miles. That's just over a 27% discount, not 50%.
The math is slightly different for a destination much further away, such as Bangkok (BKK). If you fly Qatar Airways from Dallas (DFW) and stop in Doha (DOH), you can book a one-way award for 30,000 miles, which is over a 29% discount from the 42,500-mile rate Alaska usually charges on this route.
While it's unfortunate these aren't true 50% discounts across the board, it's still a good opportunity to save miles on a redemption you were already going to make.
Terms and conditions
- This promotion doesn't require registration.
- You must book by June 30, 2025.
- The travel period is August 1, 2025, through November 15, 2025.
- Promotional pricing applies to economy and premium economy awards only, not business class.
- Travel must originate in the U.S.
- A stopover of up to 14 days is permitted on one-way itineraries; two stopovers are permitted on round-trip bookings.
- There are no blackout dates, but awards are subject to availability.
Visit Two Destinations With One Discounted Award
Going to Bangkok, Lisbon, Naples, and the rest sounds excellent. Know what's even better? Using one ticket to visit two places.
We are big fans of Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan. Its miles are extremely valuable: AwardWallet users have averaged 2.12¢ per mile in recent redemptions. If you're considering a discounted award ticket with this promotion, this deal can get even better.
Alaska Airlines allows free stopovers. You can use this to potentially stop in London or Dublin en route to Lisbon, for example.
How to Earn Alaska Airlines Miles
Need to boost your Alaska Mileage Plan balance? You've only got a few options. First, you can transfer points from the following:
You can also earn miles from everyday spending and welcome bonuses on the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® credit card and Alaska Airlines Visa® Business card.
- LIMITED TIME ONLINE OFFER-Buy One, Get One + 50,000 Bonus Miles!
- Buy one ticket, get one for just the taxes and fees ($0 fare plus taxes and fees from $23) and get 50,000 bonus miles with this offer. To qualify, make $3,000 or more in purchases within the first 90 days of opening your account.
- Get Alaska's Famous Companion Fare™ ($99 fare plus taxes and fees from $23) each account anniversary after you spend $6,000 or more on purchases within the prior anniversary year. Valid on all Alaska Airlines flights booked on alaskaair.com.
- Earn unlimited 3 miles for every $1 spent on eligible Alaska Airlines purchases. Earn unlimited 2 miles for every $1 spent on eligible gas, EV charging station, cable, streaming services and local transit (including ride share) purchases. And earn unlimited 1 mile per $1 spent on all other purchases. And, your miles don't expire on active accounts.
- Earn a 10% rewards bonus on all miles earned from card purchases if you have an eligible Bank of America® account.
- Free checked bag and enjoy priority boarding for you and up to 6 guests on the same reservation, when you pay for your flight with your card - Also available for authorized users when they book a reservation too!
- With oneworld® Alliance member airlines and Alaska's Global Partners, Alaska has expanded their global reach to over 1,000 destinations worldwide bringing more airline partners and more ways to earn and redeem miles.
- Plus, no foreign transaction fees and a low $95 annual fee.
- This online only offer may not be available elsewhere if you leave this page. You can take advantage of this offer when you apply now.
- Earn unlimited 3 miles for every $1 spent on eligible Alaska Airlines purchases
- Earn unlimited 2 miles for every $1 spent on eligible gas, EV charging stations, cable, streaming services and local transit (including ride share) purchases
- Earn unlimited 1 mile for every $1 spent on all other eligible purchases
And if you just need to top off your account, you can also buy Mileage Plan miles — sometimes with a bonus or discount.
Our Take
This is a really interesting promotion from Alaska Airlines. In fact, the best part about it is that it's “each quarter,” meaning we should continue to see new offers every few months. While the deal says “up to 50% off award travel,” not all routes are discounted that much. Luckily, there aren't any blackout dates for the discounted rates.
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