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Alaska’s Member-Unfriendly Award Booking Change is an article written by the AFF editorial team:
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Not really for BA (and QR?). With BA business class you do not get a free seat selection, unless you have mid-top tier status (OWS OWE). Or wait until T-7days/T-24hrs or pay $$ (UKP195?). So if you redeem an AS award in BA business class and have nil-low (OWR) AS status you are our of luck.When redeeming Alaska Airlines miles for an international Business or First Class ticket, that isn’t really a problem because you would get access to most of the same benefits anyway. But if flying Economy or Premium Economy and you have Qantas Gold status, for example, you won’t be able to use your Qantas status benefits on an Alaska Airlines award booking.
Hard to know what's driving such a niche policy change (if there's any rationale to it at all), but my guess would be AA Plat Pros/Exec Plats attaching their number to AS award bookings & accessing First Class lounges at greater cost to AS.I wonder if this was related to people trying to upgrade on award tickets. One may recall an infamous poster on these forums had booked an AS award ticket and requested an upgrade with their QFF # and there were issues processing as it was issued by AS. Apparently they got it done in the end but perhaps one of the reasons...
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