17 JAN 2026 loyalty
Alaska Mileage Plan 2026: The Distance-Based Chart, Two Years In
Alaska Mileage Plan operates a fifth the size of American AAdvantage and a quarter the size of United MileagePlus, and the March 2024 move to a unified distance-based partner chart was the most consequential structural change in the program's history. Two years in, the headline sweet spots are gone — Cathay First JFK-HKG is no longer 70,000 miles — but the program still punches above its weight on the specific partners and distance bands that survived the transition.