The Offer
No direct link to offer, sent out via e-mail. Subject line is ‘<Name>, don’t miss your chance at this 80,000 bonus mile offer!’
- Bank of America is offering up to 80,000 miles on the Alaska Airlines card. Bonus is broken down as follows:
- 40,000 miles after $2,000 in spend within the first 3 months
- Additional 40,000 miles after spending a total of $12,000 within the first 9 months
Card Details
- Annual fee of $75 is not waived
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 3x miles per $1 spent on Alaska Airlines tickets, vacation packages, and cargo 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
- 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.
Our Verdict
Previous best deal is 60,000 miles + $100. That only requires a spend of $3,000, making it a better offer for most people unless you highly value Alaska miles over the $100 cash component and lower spend requirement. Won’t be adding this to the best best bank bonus page as it’s targeted.
Hat tip to reader RC
my P2 was targeted for this in 2020. I took her code, signed up with my AS FF# and got the 80k miles when I hit the spend requirement.
What redemptions do people see with Alaska miles? I imagine Hawaii is a favorite destination. Just curious! I’ve stockpiled about 42k and I’ve got a mailer for 70k miles that I’ll likely apply for. Just curious!
You can fly to Alaska in the middle of winter…
Or you you can head to Fiji/Australia (Fiji Airways is a partner)
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Alaska miles free stopover is still going strong so value is still there at least.
I also see the offer in my monthly Mileage Plan Statement email, titled “Where to, [Name]? Here’s your September statement.”
Got the offer today, and most likely gonna pass. There is a personal 62k for 3k offer in-flight (saw this on Tuesday from Vegas to BOI) and the biz 70k for 4k offer. The delta of 18k extra points for $9k can be easily obtained using any normal rewards card (VentureX, Citi Double Cash etc). Same with the biz (10k extra points for $8k spend is beyond meh).
I literally just applied for the Business Alaska credit card today… why they match if I didn’t get the email offer?? Should I just try?
Wait nevermind. This one isn’t the business credit card one.
Devalued . Earlier there used to be 85k for qatar business available and now it’s 200k.
it has nothing to do with Alaska. It’s QR doesn’t release the saver award
Indeed, the program has been deeply and repeatedly devalued in the past few years. Coincides with all the bloggers hyping their cards ceaselessly. And to be honest, I’m sensing another major AS devaluation coming one of these days (their standard signup offers has always been 25K, with rare spikes to 30, 35 or OMG 50 K).
Alaska Airlines is my home town airline, and I’ll keep playing with them, but for all the vultures from parts of the country that they don’t serve, you’re a fool or a sucker if you think that Alaska’s program is some gold mine that’s going to get you and your family from your midwest home to the South Pacific or Europe on cheap miles. Yes, they have a lot of partners now, but many (most) partner redemptions are either stunningly expensive, or all-but-impossible to actually snag, and often both. If you don’t believe me, go take a look at your dream trip and see how many miles it would cost.
That said, as someone who actually flies Alaska Airlines pretty often around their core region (yes, on their own planes), I’d happily grab that 80K signup bonus if it ever floats by. My last Alaska personal card was closed more than 4 years ago, so I’m ready to jump on this deal if I’m ever targeted. Target me!!!
I show good value on Korean Air which is a hard partner to find.
Getting both AS & AA miles is the power combo for oneworld imo. Delta skybolivars — enough said. United has also been quite ass for redemption, esp on their own flights; to Asia is like 99k+ now. Meanwhile, oneworld still has 70k to asia–and sometimes you’ll find one that’s not avail on the other’s portal.
When I log into my Alaska account I also see 50,000 points for 2k in spend. Is this worth burning my last 5/24 slot on?
No, there are better options out there
40,000 for 10k seems pretty meh when you can get the business card for 70,000 and only 4k spend. Plus the business card version isn’t targeted. You’d be better off using that extra 6k spend on a different card than getting the extra 10,000 miles
Get both cards, if possible. Those miles are extremely valuable, to say the least.
Are they really anymore? I feel like they are getting harder and harder to use in sweet spots and have been devalued quite a bit everywhere else.
Can’t agree with this logic. The spend is only one factor — you also have to consider the opportunity cost of a new inquiry and account on your credit, especially for the 5/24 slot. Alaska miles are harder to rack up than many of the other popular programs, so this should be thought of as 80k miles/12k spend/9mos. Forget about the tier disparity.
Just because the initial 40k are way easier to get than the second tier doesn’t make the remainder a bad deal. Since you can get it without taking on another card, second tier bonuses are usually worth it unless they’re astronomical. And at first glance 10k spend seems significant but then again not really when you get 9 months to do it,
Also no point in comparing the business card, the move is to get all you can out of both cards
Yep. Quite fallacious comparisons by folks who can’t just admit that they can’t afford to or won’t have the higher spend required. There are only so many reward cards and on a time restriction. Not getting the most out of each is foolish, just because another one has a better “base rate”. As long as the mi/$ you get is higher than any other “stable” card you have (e.g., 4x dining, 2x everything else), it’s worth it, per category.