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The United and Southwest shopping portals launched new promotions in the last day or two and the Alaska Airlines portal is now joining them with an opportunity to earn up to 1,000 bonus Mileage Plan miles.
The Deal
- The Alaska Airlines shopping portal is offering the following three-tiered promotion:
- Spend $150 & get 300 bonus miles
- Spend $350 & get 600 bonus miles
- Spend $550 & get 1,000 bonus miles
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from 7/17/2024 through 8/5/2024 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will receive a one-time bonus of up to 1,000 Mileage Plan bonus miles on qualifying purchases made through the Mileage Plan Shopping mall or from purchases made through Mileage Plan Shopping in-store offers.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined using one of the following tiers, based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period: Tier 1 bonus: 300 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $150; Tier 2 bonus: 600 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $350; or Tier 3 bonus: 1,000 miles for qualifying purchases of $550 or more.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles. Please see the Mileage Plan Shopping site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus miles to post to your Mileage Plan Shopping account.
- The Tier 3 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded.
Quick Thoughts
This isn’t the greatest return seeing as you’re only earning 1.7x-2x bonus miles at best. However, if you’re looking to earn Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles, this option might be preferable to the United and Southwest portal promos.
A feature that can help hit the spending thresholds on the Alaska portal is its card-linked in-store offer program (which the United portal has as well). Several of the participating retailers for the in-store offer program have corresponding Amex Offers, Citi Offers, etc. which will stack with portal earnings.
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Will the AS card linked offers stack with other card linked offers like Rakuten, Dosh, etc.?
It won’t stack with Rakuten as it runs on the same network. It might work with Dosh, but it might depend on the offer.
What exactly is the point to write about stuff like this where it’s an insignificant amount of points? Is it purely to feed googles algo?
Insignificant is in the eye of the
beholderearner. Some people will buy $550 of gift cards from Giftcards.com to earn the bonus.Other people might be spending $150 in-store at Tommy Hilfiger (perhaps $75 on a Citi card and $75 on an Amex card due to the ‘spend $75 & get $15 back Citi and Amex Offers). Being able to earn a total of 600 bonus miles on $150 spend simply for linking a couple of credit cards to the portal will be worth it for some. If doing that for themselves and P2, that’s 1,200 miles.
We’re certainly not saying that people should be taking advantage of this, but we like to give readers a heads up about these types of promos so that they’re aware that they’re there in case they want to take advantage of them. I doubt that there’s many people searching Google for the latest Alaska Airlines shopping portal promo and, if there are, I imagine they’d click the link for the portal itself, so I doubt there’s much SEO value from writing these. We simply write about it to inform readers.
I am actually (and as always) waiting for AA to join in before restocking my Visa giftcards. 500-2000 miles by itself isn’t a lot, but it sweetens other deals and over time adds up (as these types of promos are now popping up every few months. So I for one appreciate these posts.
Go on doing what you’re doing. I’ll likely never use this one in particular but there are some small wins like these that I’m happy to use and/or pas on to my friends. In the AA example that TravelGeek mentioned, many of us are trying to earn loyalty points for status so these small wins really add up.