{"id":349,"date":"2013-03-07T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevaluetraveler.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:22:54","slug":"alaska-airlines-offering-40-bonus-miles-on-purchased-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/2013\/03\/07\/alaska-airlines-offering-40-bonus-miles-on-purchased-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines Offering 40% Bonus Miles on Purchased Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Alaska Airlines is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/content\/mileage-plan\/buy-gift-transfer.aspx?lid=nav:mileagePlan-transfer\" target=\"_blank\"> offering a bonus 40% on gifted or purchased miles<\/a>.\u00a0 Simply put, for every 1000 miles purchased, you get an additional 400 miles.\u00a0 Although not as lucrative as US Airways bonus of 100% bonus on purchased miles, still not bad, considering they are Alaska Airlines miles, which are pretty useful.\u00a0 Alaska Airlines is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/content\/mileage-plan\/partners\/partner-overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">partners<\/a> with some of the most awesome carriers (to be covered soon in a post).\u00a0 Miles can be redeemed on SkyTeam carriers such as Delta and Air France, as well as OneWorld carriers such as Cathay Pacific and American Airlines.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget they recently partnered with Emirates.\u00a0 The offer ends April 26th, 2013, so hurry if you want to top off your Alaska Mileage Plan.\u00a0 Award tickets at Alaska Airlines for Hawaii usually go for about 40,000 round trip. 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