Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan closed on 1 October 2025. Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines now share a single program, Atmos Rewards, which also replaced Hawaiian’s HawaiianMiles. Existing Mileage Plan balances were moved across. From 22 April 2026, the two airlines run on one reservation system, and Hawaiian’s HA flight code has been retired in favour of Alaska’s AS.
This guide is kept as a record of how the Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan worked. It doesn’t describe a program you can join or earn in today.
Mileage Plan was Alaska Airlines’ loyalty program.
This Mileage Plan was based in the USA, and earning opportunities for Australians were limited.
Once earned, you could use those miles for ticket redemptions across a broad range of airlines and travel classes, making Mileage Plan an extremely versatile tool.
How do I redeem Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles?
Although you can use Mileage Plan miles for hotels or a magazine subscription, by far the most popular use of Alaska Airlines miles is using it for reward flights on Alaska Airlines and its partner carriers.
The best starting point is the award chart on the Alaska website, which details the costs for miles to use from Australia and New Zealand on Qantas, Fiji Airways, Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines.
Alaska Airlines is a bit spotty at allowing award redemptions and costs for travel outside of North America. In some cases it’s allowed, in others, it is not. If the award chart doesn’t show your route, it’s probably not permitted.
If you can’t find a result online, you’ll need to call Alaska via Skype or similar to confirm availability and try and research or book over the phone.
Booking Qantas with Mileage Plan
The Qantas award chart for Alaska Mileage Plan looks like this, as of October 2020:
| QF one-way routes | Economy | Premium Economy | Business | First |
| Within Australia | 12,500 | 15,000 | 20,000 | – |
| Australia to the US | 42,500 | 47,500 | 55,000 | 70,000 |
You’ll note that all intra-Australia travel is marked at one price — 12,500 miles for Economy and 20,000 miles for Business Class, each way. This gives great value for purchasing miles for longer Business Class class redemptions, such as East-West Coast transcontinental treks.
Booking Cathay Pacific with Mileage Plan
You can net a one-way Business Class ticket between Australia and Hong Kong for a rather ridiculous 30,000 miles (that’s a ridiculously good price, for the avoidance of any doubt).
Flights between Australia and the USA via Hong Kong are available for quite reasonable rates too, topping out at 80,000 miles for First Class.
| CX one-way routes | Economy | Premium Economy | Business | First |
| Australia to Hong Kong | 22,500 | 25,000 | 30,000 | 45,000 |
| Australia to the US | 40,000 | 47,500 | 60,000 | 80,000 |
Booking Singapore Airlines with Mileage Plan
The ability to redeem Alaska Airlines miles on Singapore Airlines flights was only introduced in October 2019. It’s possible to use miles to travel at these rates:
| SQ one-way routes | Economy | Premium Economy | Business | First |
| Australia to South East Asia | 30,000 | – | 65,000 | 90,000 |
| Within South East Asia | 17,500 | – | 25,000 | 35,000 |
The miles needed remains the same no matter where you start your journey in Australia, and covers travel to Singapore and onwards to another city within South East Asia.
Free stopovers in Singapore are also permitted, making this a much better option if you want to visit multiple cities while paying the same number of miles overall.
Another sweet spot is for flights within South East Asia. Business Class and First Class is priced at a reasonable 25,000 and 35,000 Alaska miles each. For that rate, you could go from Bangkok to Singapore to Hong Kong in a premium cabin, all for just 25k or 35k miles!
Adding stopovers to Mileage Plan awards
A stopover is where you break one ticket into two or more flights across different days by stopping in an intermediate city that you would normally transit through. One stopover is allowed for most one-way awards.
Put more simply, if you are flying between two countries, you can usually have a stopover in a hub city of the airline you’re flying — such as Singapore for Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong for Cathay Pacific.
To clarify, if you are flying Qantas from Sydney to Perth and want a stopover in Melbourne, that is not possible because this is a purely domestic itinerary within the same country.
Tip: If you are flying a round-trip journey, book ait s two one-ways instead to potentially get free stopovers in both directions.
How do I contact Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan?
To get in touch with Mileage Plan about a membership enquiry or flight redemption, try:
- calling 1-800-654-5669 from the US or 0011-800-25275200 from Australia (charges may apply)
- sending them a direct message on Twitter or Facebook
- submitting an online enquiry
While the call centre might be the quickest way to resolve your issue, try the social media channels if the line is busy or you’re not able to call overseas numbers.
Summing up
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan is a unique loyalty program that offers interesting earn and rewards opportunities for point hackers all around the world, even those in Australia and New Zealand.
All the fun comes when it’s time to redeem, as there are quite a number of good ‘sweet spots’ including 20,000 miles for Qantas domestic Business Class (including long flights to Perth) and 30,000 miles for Cathay Pacific Business Class to Hong Kong.
Alaska Airline’s entry into oneworld will likely bring big changes to the Mileage Plan program, both positive and negative. We will keep this guide updated when the latest news comes out.
Supplementary images courtesy respective airlines. This guide was originally written by Matt Moffitt.
