I’m a little bit happy that Alaska Airlines is joining the oneworld alliance. The Seattle based airline set a very aggressive date to join oneworld and now they have announced exactly when.
With a reputation for quality and service, it will be great to have them in the alliance. Everyone seems to have a good word to say about them and their Mileage Plan frequent flyer programme is considered top notch.
Alaska To Join Oneworld
The Alaska Airlines blog states the official joining date will be 31 March 2021. From then, people can start earning miles and all the reciprocal lounge benefits and so on will take effect.
These dates are hard rules. If you have a flight on 30 March and hope to earn miles on it due to the new partnership, it won’t count, even if other flights on your booking are after the join date. Tried that with Royal Jordanian back in 2007 and it’s a no.
Time To Switch Airlines!
I always fly American Airlines when I’m in the United States, as they are in oneworld and I like to earn points and status. Over the years, that once decent airline has become very patchy service wise.
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- Looking forward to trying First Class on Alaska Airlines again!
All of my flying in the USA will now be switched to Alaska Airlines for the foreseeable future. Looks like I’ll be flying Dublin to Seattle on Aer Lingus or British Airways and connecting from there to where I need to be. Can’t wait!
Overall Thoughts
When airlines join oneworld, they don’t need to cancel any existing airline partnerships. Various carriers in the alliance have relationships with those outside of the alliance, so this is expected to continue after they join. In fact, they deal with it in the blog post I linked earlier.
I’m excited to see 31 March announced as the day Alaska Airlines join oneworld. Now, time to get making some bookings to take full advantage of the fact.
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Alaska Airlines is Just amazing — they’ve never been late for me.
Super to hear that!
AS doesn’t affect me much living in St. Louis. I’m pretty much a DL/WN loyalist at this point. Fly AA occasionally, never AS (yet). If Canada ever opens up to US travelers again I would love to visit Victoria, BC and would probably fly AS if the schedules/price works out, but that would be a one-off.
You’re right, it does have a lot to do with your location and where you want to go. It wouldn’t be relevant for a lot of people, down to location alone. I haven’t flown DL or WN, but both are very good at what they do, from what I hear.
Alaska is great, but Seattle (while lovely) isn’t always a terribly convenient connection point.
That’s very true indeed! I wouldn’t be connecting there from Dublin to New Orleans for example 🙂 I’d say that’s a reason why American is probably okay with it. There probably won’t be toooo many passengers hived off. Thanks for the comment!
Alaska Airlines is far superior to AA with the exception of the occasional opportunity to fly AA wide bodies on domestic routes. As a current and long time AA Exp and lifetime AA Platinum, Alaska will definitely get more of my business going forward.
Good point on the widebodies. Great to hear that you’ll be pitching some of your business towards Alaska Airlines. Hopefully they’ll continue to be as good as can be. Thanks for the comment!