The Offer
Direct link to offer via Mile Nerd
This deal seems to keep dying and coming back, if you want to sign up I’d suggest doing it sooner rather than later.
- Receive 25,000 Alaska miles after your first purchase and $100 after you spend $1,000 within three months. Annual fee of $75 is not waived on the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature from Bank of America
Card Details
- Annual fee of $75 is not waived
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x miles per $1 spent on Mileage Plan Dining
- 3x miles per $1 spent on Alaska Airlines tickets, vacation packages, and cargo purchases
- 1x miles on all other purchases
- Coach Companion Fare from $121
- They will sometimes approve you for a Platinum Plus Visa or Preferred Visa card which has different annual fees and sign up bonus
Our Verdict
The real reason most people are interested in this offer is because Bank of America combines multiple applications into a single hard pull, meaning you can apply for multiples of the same card (or different cards like the Spirit card).
Hat tip to Mile Nerd
William
You may want to go over this thread – there are more than one AS emails posted on that thread, as well as the interaction with AS.
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=52946.0
The AS shut down is for REAL. Those continue to try for multiple cards SHOULD read multiple sites and not just rely on FT which even have several threads, one is now inactive – that has shut downs on SPG pts transfer. There are speculation on why the shut down from AS not from BofA is because AS does not use a traditional model on the sales of their miles to the partners. It seems AS is using an unconventional method in that BofA is only a facilitator, and AS bears all the cost of miles awarded – expensed those as the costs occurred.
Because so far your blog seems to be on the more responsible blogger side, please keep it this way to keep up with what is going on instead of just brushing off the poster like Jim on the AS situation.
Reading through it now. The issue I have with stuff like this is often people intentionally put out misinformation in an effort to discourage others from what they are doing or they aren’t up front with everything they are doing with AS. In any case, I’ll read through it and talk to some people I trust to see what’s what.
How often does the 50k sign up bonus come around? Is it better to just hold out for that?
It does not come around often, it was available last year but that was more of an error on behalf of BofA/Alaska that anything else. Sometimes you’ll be targeted for a 50k offer tho.
They have no source to prove how you violated terms by applying for alaska cards for bonus miles and using it to book awards. They will just lie to shut down your account with nonsense stuffs. Here is just one of the several shut down reports. Dear ********* Thank you for contacting Alaska Airlines. As you were advised today on the phone, you owe Alaska Airlines $591.40 for the 20,000 miles that were used. This is for the ticket XXX XXXXXXXXXX in the name of **** Below is the information on the credit card application that you agreed to when applying for the credit card. Visa Signature® accounts will receive an annual round-trip coach Companion Fare on Alaska Airlines from $121 (USD) ($99 base fare plus taxes and fees, from $22 depending on your Alaska Airlines flight itinerary) when traveling with another passenger on a paid published coach airfare on the same itinerary, booked at the same time. Companion fare certificate code will be credited to your Alaska Airlines Mileage PlanTM account approximately 2-3 weeks after approval. The Companion Fare e-certificate is issued to the primary cardholder’s Mileage Plan account upon approval of a new account and on each anniversary thereafter. The Companion Fare must be redeemed within 12 months of the date of issue. Once ticketed, travel may be completed after the expiration date of the Companion Fare. The expiration date cannot be extended and, once your Companion Fare has expired, it cannot be exchanged. If your Account is closed, changed from an Alaska Airlines Visa Signature Account to an account other than a Visa Signature Account or an Account with no annual fee, you are no longer eligible to receive this benefit. Mileage cannot be used as a form of payment, however mileage credit accrual is allowed for both travelers. Travelers are responsible for all applicable checked baggage fees. The Companion Fare is not valid with award travel, and cannot be combined with other discounts. Applicable taxes and fees are subject to change. Benefits of the card: 25,000 bonus miles Companion Certificate Below are the Terms & Conditions that you agreed to when joining the Mileage Plan Alaska Airlines reserves the right to audit Mileage Plan accounts at any time and without notice to the member to ensure compliance with these Mileage Plan Conditions of Membership and applicable conditions of carriage and/or tariffs. In the event that an audit reveals discrepancies or violations, the processing of Mileage Plan awards, mileage accrual or redemption of accrued mileage may be suspended until the discrepancies or violations are resolved to Alaska Airlines’ satisfaction. Alaska Airlines reserves the right to terminate the membership and/or suspend access to the mileage balance of any member at any time for any reason it deems appropriate. Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Miles, award tickets, upgrade certificates, and companion certificates may not be sold, purchased or bartered except as permitted on Points.com. Travel agents, travel arrangers and unauthorized brokers are not permitted to issue Mileage Plan tickets or… Read more »
FT is not the only blog where people have reported shut down by Alaska for bonus miles mileage activity!
Alasks tells them they can shut down however they want cos the miles are their’s. In some case the only way to get your account reopen and existing miles credited back is if you pay them the full market value of the award tickets you booked using THEIR miles.
THERE ARE MANY REPORTS. OPEN YOUR EYES
Ok, please provide more sources then.
do youhave any idea what’s happening? Read other blogs and reports?
Many already got their cards shut down, hundreds f thousands of miles taken away by ALASKA for applying this card again or for applying more than one 1 short time.
Not only than Alaska is also suspending accounts for SPG points transfer! ANY ABNORMAL MILEAGE ACTIVITY IS CRACKED DOWN! It is not about selling miles.
Jim- Those things sound crazy!! Firstly, if people are abusing CC signups- then it’s BoA that should be closing cards down and clawing back miles, not Alaska!! Alaska already got paid for all those miles from BoA, then they just take them back and the customer and BoA are left out of luck and they keep all that money for FREE?!? I’d be shocked they could get away with that, without BoA getting back their money.
The second crazy thing you mentioned is SPG transfers- thats not even an abuse AT ALL! It’s a totally legitimate use of SPG points- and again, they are keeping the money they get from Starwood for free?!? This requires further investigation. Thanks for alerting us Jim, I for one hadnt seen this anywhere else.
Yes, I’ve read other blogs and forums. I haven’t seen any clear evidence that people have been shut down for multiple credit card applications, there was one data point on FT but he wasn’t exactly forth coming on what might else have caused the shut down. Everybody else also reported weird withdrawals, deposits and redeposits which make it look like are a points broker.
I posted about this earlier but I don’t think this deal really comes and go. If you search for a flight, you should see the offer even if there are no working direct links. I recommend others try that when this link inevitably dies.
http://pointscentric.com/2015/06/26/psa-the-alaska-airlines-25000-miles-100-statement-credit-offer-never-actually-disappered/
Yeah, but for some people doing that doesn’t work. You need to actually book a flight for it to work (for some) plus if you’re doing multiples it’s much easier to have a direct link.