Alaska Airways and Hawaiian Airways are providing reciprocal standing matches

When it introduced its acquisition of Hawaiian Airways, Alaska Airways promised that elite members of every program would be capable to standing match.

That standing match is now stay, as first flagged by Gary Leff at View from the Wing.

The airways will finally have one loyalty program, however within the meantime, reciprocal elite standing is fairly cool.

It is pretty simple. You simply must go to this particular standing match touchdown web page, log in to your Alaska Mileage Plan account, after which log in to your HawaiianMiles account.

When you’ve got standing with Alaska Mileage Plan or HawaiianMiles, you may match that to elite standing on the opposite provider.

Even when you do not have standing with both airline, there’s additionally a possibility right here to mix your earnings in each applications into one stage of standing. For instance, should you’ve earned 20,000 miles with Alaska and 20,000 miles with Hawaiian, you’d have 40,000 miles in a mixed account. That is sufficient to get you Alaska Airways MVP Gold standing.

Keep in mind that members will retain their present miles and might now additionally switch their miles between accounts at a 1:1 ratio.

Alaska says members will quickly have the flexibility to earn HawaiianMiles miles on Alaska flights and Mileage Plan miles on Hawaiian Airways flights. There may also finally be further redemption choices and the flexibility to take pleasure in choose elite advantages throughout each airways.

This will probably be useful because the airways start working flights for one another. For instance, I observed that my upcoming Alaska Airways flight to Hawaii in April had been hit with a schedule change. Once I known as Alaska to determine what was up with the flight, the agent advised me that the Bay Space flights presently being flown by Alaska would quickly be operated by Hawaiian Airways.

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I do not presently have elite standing with both airline. But when I did, I’d have been completely happy to get Hawaiian Airways standing in order that I may choose higher seats on these flights that may now be operated by Hawaiian.

Due to my American Airways standing, I used to be ready to decide on extra-legroom seats on Alaska flights. Alaska’s partnership with American Airways signifies that after I fly on Alaska flights, the provider acknowledges my top-tier American Airways AAdvantage standing. That will not work with Hawaiian.

Associated: Final-minute methods for incomes Alaska Mileage Plan elite standing

You may also nonetheless standing match from different airways to Alaska

One different factor to notice: Alaska continues to be providing a standing problem when you’ve got elite standing with one other airline. You may earn immediate standing for 90 days by matching out of your present airline elite standing; there’s a possibility to increase that standing by the top of 2025 should you fly as few as 5,000 miles on Alaska-operated flights (20,000 miles for MVP Gold 75K). Since I’ve top-tier Delta Air Traces Diamond Medallion standing, I would take into account it.

Extra causes Alaska Mileage Plan seems fascinating now

In truth, I’m contemplating going for Alaska standing subsequent 12 months. There are a variety of interesting developments from Alaska Mileage Plan and from the merger.

Alaska is now the one main U.S. airline that allows you to earn elite standing from flights based mostly on precise flight miles. This makes incomes top-tier Mileage Plan standing simpler should you do not buy a variety of costly airplane tickets. Alaska additionally made a number of optimistic modifications on the status-earning entrance. Alaska Mileage Plan members will now earn miles on award redemptions, and there may also be new methods to spend towards standing.