{"id":21338,"date":"2024-11-05T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=21338"},"modified":"2024-11-06T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:29:58","slug":"excellent-buy-point-deals-from-alaska-and-melia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/11\/05\/excellent-buy-point-deals-from-alaska-and-melia\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent buy point deals from Alaska and Finnair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[Alaska Air]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rare and excellent deal for buying Alaska Air miles &#8211; before November 15 you get 100% bonus when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/points-hawaiian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">buying at least 10,000 miles from Hawaiian Airlines<\/a> in one transaction, with tax factored in you&#8217;ll be paying 1.27 cents \/ 0.975p per mile.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/hawaiian-buy-miles-100-bonus.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/hawaiian-buy-miles-100-bonus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/hawaiian-buy-miles-100-bonus.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/hawaiian-buy-miles-100-bonus-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hawaiian miles isn&#8217;t useful, but the airline is being acquired by Alaska and the miles can be transferred to Alaska&#8217;s Mileage Plan program at a 1:1 ratio instantaneously &#8211; you are basically buying Alaska miles at a bargain price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/content\/mileage-plan\/use-miles\/award-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Alaska&#8217;s redemption chart<\/a> here, and search award tickets online without having an account. They eliminated a lot of partner sweet spots when they revamped the program one or two years ago, but there are still quite a few worthwhile redemption options. For example (economy \/ business):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CX Hong Kong &#8211; Beijing: 7,500 miles \/ 15,000 miles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JL Tokyo &#8211; Beijing: 7,500 miles \/ 15,000 miles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BA London &#8211; Dubai: 22,500 miles \/ 45,000 miles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LA New York &#8211; Lima: 175,00 miles \/ 35,000 miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are pretty good deals here and there especially given BA is continuously devaluing. Note that however these are all &#8220;starting at&#8221; prices and AS might increase the prices without notice as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Finnair]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want Avios, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/points-finnair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Finnair is running a very good promotion<\/a>. Until November 20, you&#8217;ll get a discount when buying Avios:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>5,000 \u2013 19,000: 35% off<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20,000 \u2013 49,000: 40% off<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>50,000 \u2013 74,000: 45% off<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>75,000 \u2013 200,000: 50% off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/james-2020-trip-to-china-finnair-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"863\" height=\"647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/james-2020-trip-to-china-finnair-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9488\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/james-2020-trip-to-china-finnair-3.jpg 863w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/james-2020-trip-to-china-finnair-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/james-2020-trip-to-china-finnair-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With 50% off you are paying 1.05 euro cents \/ 0.87p per Avios, which is an excellent chance to top up your account. Remember that you can move Avios freely between AY \/ BA \/ IB \/ QR accounts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/08\/31\/how-to-best-redeem-avios-on-flights-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"How to best redeem Avios on flights (and more)\">I&#8217;ve written a guide on Avios previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Alaska Air] A rare and excellent deal for buying Alaska Air miles &#8211; before November 15 you get 100% bonus when buying at least 10,000 miles&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,126,11],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-21338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-finnair","category-melia-rewards","tag-points-sale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21338"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21353,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions\/21353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}