If you travel a lot, elite status can provide a lot of benefits to help give you the comforts of home while you’re on the road. Â I’ve written before about the benefits of the Hyatt Diamond Challenge, and even written a guide on how to status match at each of the different major hotel chains. Â Today though I want to talk about an Alaska Airlines status match.
MVP Gold 75K status – what you get with an Alaska Airlines status match
Alaska Airlines MVP Gold 75K status is Alaska Airlines’ top status, and comes with a host of benefits, among which are:
- Top priority for complimentary First Class upgrades on Alaska
- Waived fees for changes and cancellations
- 125% Elite Bonus Miles on Alaska and 12 partners
- An opportunity to nominate someone to MVP status
- Four Day Passes to our Board Room airport lounges Priority check-in and boarding on Alaska and American
One nice feature is that you can also get benefits when traveling on Alaska’s partners American Airlines and Delta Airlines
How to do an Alaska Airlines status match
To get an Alaska Airlines status match, simply email documentation of your top tier status with a competing airline to elite.flyer@alaskaair.com
Your Alaska Airlines status match gives you MVP Gold 75K status for the rest of the year. Â If you do the Alaska Airlines status match after November, you get it for the rest of the year AND the entire year after that.
I should point out that according to Alaska Airlines, you can only do an Alaska Airlines status match once per lifetime, so you’ll want to do the Alaska Airlines status match when you’ve got a lot of travel upcoming, to get the most out of your MVP Gold 75K Alaska Airlines status.
An Alaska Airlines status match without flying a mile
But wait, what was all this about getting an Alaska Airlines status match without flying a mile? Â The trick is using the Southwest Airlines companion pass
(SEE ALSO: What is the Southwest Companion Pass (and how to get it))
(SEE ALSO: Cheapest way to get the Southwest Companion Pass (without the Southwest credit card))
You CAN earn the Southwest Companion Pass by flying 100 segments on Southwest in a year, or by earning 110,000 Southwest points. Â BUT, the much easier way is to sign up for 2 Southwest credit cards in a year. Â Usually those cards will have 50,000 point signup bonuses (and I’ve seen it as high as 60,000), so it’s a super easy way to get the Southwest Companion Pass.
Once you have the Southwest Companion Pass, just email a screenshot to elite.flyer@alaskaair.com and boom! You should get an Alaska Airlines status match to MVP Gold 75K status.
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I did the Alaska Status match earlier this year. Although I didn’t get the 75k status, I still received the gold status, which has been very helpful for all my travels to Florida and Minnesota.
If my SWA CP expires on 12/31/15 and I apply for the match anytime in Dec ’15, will I be matched on ASA for Dec ’15 and all of 2016, or is that wishful thinking?
My guess is that you would but I can’t say for sure
My screenshot looks different than yours. I do have the companion pass. What part of the SW’s website did you take the screenshot from?
If you could get upgrades on award flights, then this would be awesome. Delta does give upgrades on award flights, and they also give them to Alaska elites, but Alaska elites go to the end of the line behind all the Delta elites.
I believe one of the best ways to get a SWA companion pass is to get Marriott points from Marriott Visa credit cards. Then whatever Marriott points you are missing can be transferred from Chase Ultimate Rewards to Marriott. Marriott has a special air/hotel award program where you can get a combined 7 night Marriott hotel reward (the higher the category hotel the more Marriott points needed) with airline points on different airlines. If you chose the SWA airline program, you can get 120,000 SWA points which more than gives you the 110,000 SWA points needed for the companion pass! Now, you can plan a week’s vacation at a Marriott, the 120k SWA points you earned let you fly on a portion of your points and you bring your companion with you on the companion pass! A very sweet spot program.