Additional terms apply see /terms-of-service/ for details.īenefits available to eligible cardholders for Premier Collection bookings include: daily breakfast for two, complimentary Wi-Fi, a $100 experience credit, and (when available) room upgrades, early check-in and late checkout. Advance reservations recommended for certain experiences. Qualifying charges vary by location, are subject to availability, and must be charged to your room during your eligible stay contact hotel directly to confirm qualifying experiences. Thank goodness we booked hotels direct.Premier Collection experience credit will be applied at checkout by hotel to qualifying charges up to $100 USD or the local currency equivalent. Unlikely I will book with Chase Travel again. Except the cancellation credit is like $20 less than what I originally paid Chase for the flights so it seems Chase also charged me an undisclosed middle man fee for making things more difficult. I called Alaska and they said they'd send me the cancellation credit and I should get an email within a week. Then told me to call Alaska if I wanted a different resolution. Any extra credit $ would be forfeited and I cant split the credit for multiple cheaper flights. Chase CS said I can only use the credit to book ONE Alaska flight for the same passengers as the original flight. I never got a cancellation credit email from Alaska and didnt see the credit information on my Chase travel portal for the trip so I called Chase to try and get the credit info. I later cancelled the flight through Chase. I booked an Alaska main cabin flight through Chase Travel (with $, not points). It might be because she said she cancelled the flight through Alaska so that could be important! I had a completely different experience than the person saying "I do this all the gets refunded to the wallet".
Just dealt with this right now and it is such a pain, I wish I just booked directly with Alaska. It is easier to just trade Chase points for travel at their rate and enjoy life. People have been able to transfer chase points to partners such as Avios or others and earn slightly more than that, but that is a level of playing the game in which I do not partake. The only downside is you are redeeming the points at a fixed value (1¢/point with freedom cards, or 1.25/1.5 for Sapphire Preferred and Reserve respectively). The beauty of Chase's system is that you still earn EQMs just like a cash ticket and you have the same availability to choose from as if you were buying cash tickets from Alaska's own site. The only airline on which you cannot is Southwest, I believe. And yes, you can buy AS tickets through Chase's system. Chase is effectively purchasing that ticket for you with their cash and selling it to you in exchange for your points. When you buy a ticket with chase points thorough their own ultimate rewards portal, it is as if you are buying a cash ticket as far as the airline is concerned. They used to partner with Expedia, now it is someone else. On the other hand, you can buy a ticket with cash as long as there is space on the aircraft.Ĭhase has their own ultimate rewards portal which I am sure you are familiar with since it sounds like you have a chase card. You do not earn EQMs on award travel, and award travel is also subject to availability limitations decided upon by the airline. When you book with Alaska Mileage Plan miles or with points through a partner (Avios, for example) this is referred to as award travel. In general, they are just butt-in-seat miles and they are what move you toward elite status such as MVP or Million Miler status.
They do not include miles earned through credit card spend or miles purchased. Now that Chase has gotten rid of the Pay-Yourself-Back redemption for dining, I'm wondering if I can have my cake and still eat it by temporarily booking Alaska flights through the Chase travel portal (in order to get the additional UR points when paying with cash or take advantage of the favorable redemption rate when paying with UR points), cancel the booking with Alaska, and then use the refunded credit on Alaska to book directly with them.ĮQMs are elite-qualifying miles. When you say that Alaska will "refund the amount you paid" for tickets booked through the Chase travel portal, how does that work when redeeming Chase Ultimate Rewards points? E.g., when redeeming 50K Ultimate Rewards points for a $750 ticket (at 1.5 cents per point if one has the Sapphire Reserve), if one were to then cancel that ticket, then I assume Alaska would refund $750 to the wallet (rather than $500)? Hey, sorry to revive a 3-month-old thread, but I'm hoping you can clarify something in your comment.
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