Update 1/20/23: Another option is this 72,000 signup bonus offer.
Update 1/18/23: You can get an additional $100 statement credit by using a link found when booking Alaska flights. I’ve added that link to the post.
The Offer
- Bank of America is offering 70,000 miles & $100 statement credit when you spend $3,000 or more within the first 90 days of account opening.
Card Details
- Annual fee of $95 is not waived
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 3x miles per $1 spent on Alaska Airlines tickets, vacation packages, and cargo purchases
- 2x miles for every $1 spent on eligible gas, cable, streaming services and local transit (includes ride share) purchases
- 1x miles on all other purchases
- Free checked bag for you and up to six other passengers on your reservation
- No foreign transaction fees
- Earn a 10% rewards bonus on all miles earned from card purchases if you have an eligible Bank of America account
- Priority boarding benefit
- 20% back on all Alaska Airlines inflight purchases
- $100 off an annual Alaska Lounge+ Membership when you pay with your new card
- Get Alaska’s Famous Companion Fare from $122 ($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
- This card will not be available to you if you currently have or have had the card in the preceding 24 month period. This does not apply to the business credit card product.
A lot of these details are from recent changes.
Our Verdict
Previously the best deal was 60,000+$100. Most people will prefer this 70,000 offer. (We did see recently 70k + $100, but I think that offer ended up being a targeted.) We’ll add this to our list of the best credit card bonuses.
They keep vacillating on the $6,000 spend requirement for the Companion Fare: they had added that in, then scrapped it, and now it’s showing again on this application link.
Can people downgrade this card to no-annual fee cards? I read online that some people can do it, but when I called I was told I cannot.
Is there any link with personal card higher than 60k offer?
Chuck : Alaska business 75k is back
https://www.bankofamerica.com/AKBuscard65k
I’m seeing 65k there
BofA closed my previous Alaska credit card due to 8 mounts of inactivity. I opened it less than one year ago and got the bonus. I still had the companion fare certificate in my Alaska account but I could not use the certificate without the Alaska card. I tried to re-open the card without success.
Applied for a new Alaska credit card from Alaska account for $5K points + $200 with $2K spending in June 2023. The application was approved after 4 days. It was a little less than one year after the previous approval for the same card.
Correction, “$50K points + $200 with $2K spending”
The 70K offer is now expired as well – only 50K.
The 72k link is dead now
Is the $100 statement credit on all purchases or just purchase on Alaska?
I closed my previous personal card 04/2021 so applied using the 72k link and was approved instantly today. You can just ignore the employee fields for anyone wondering. I’ve seen people mentioning using referrals for 10k bonus – anyone know the link to generate a referral from my card for P2?
there’s a banner on the Alaska Air homepage
https://www.applyonlinenow.com/MGMapp/ReferralPage?cid=4064536&s_tnt=122547:45:0
Referral link generates 50k + $100. The 72k is a better deal
70k + $100 is dead, but I generated a referral link from P2 and it was for 70k. Plus, P2 gets a 10k referral bonus, so net 80k for our family.
Approved after recon and fraud prevention clearing (several calls), used the phone #’s Alex posted below. Card showed up online in 1 day and BofA said they’d expedite. I’m about 8/24 with 800+ FICO and 2 other BofA cards. My last Alaska card was ~4 years ago.
Good luck folks!
My p2 link was for 50k + 100 with 2k spend…
Not sure how you lucked out with a 70k referral link! Like other commenters here, I’ve only been able to generate a 50K bonus with referral.
Not sure, but the 10k just posted and I confirmed the 70k on mine. Got lucky I guess!
The 72k offer here still worked for me.