Earning Alaska Airlines miles can be highly lucrative, which makes the MileagePlan program an attractive option for frequent flyers. Unfortunately, the program does not have any direct transfer partners with major U.S. credit card reward programs, and customers have few options outside of Alaska's own co-branded credit cards.
Best Credit Card Offers
If you're looking to top off your MileagePlan account, here are 10 of the best Alaska Air credit card offers currently available. This table is updated automatically whenever our partner offers change, so you will always find the most up-to-date bonuses listed.
Alaska Air Credit Cards
Alaska Airlines offers two Bank of America Credit Cards consisting of one personal credit card and one business credit card. With Alaska not being a direct transfer partner of any major U.S. credit card rewards program, these will be the best options for earning Alaska miles on everyday spending.
Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® credit card
- Earning Rate: Earn 3X miles on Alaska Airlines purchases, 2X miles on eligible gas, cable, streaming services, and local transit (including rideshare) purchases, and 1X on everything else.
- Main Highlights: Alaska's Famous Companion Fare annually, free checked bag for yourself and up to 6 others traveling with you, 10% bonus miles if you have an eligible Bank of America account, and discounts on in-flight purchases and Alaska Lounge+ membership.
- Annual Fee: $75
- Summary: If you're looking to earn Alaska Miles, there is no better card to have. This is the best option for earning miles via intro bonuses and everyday spending.
- Calculate Alaska Miles & Card Value per dollar spent for the Alaska Airlines Credit Card.
Alaska Airlines Visa® Business Card
- Earning Rate: Earn 3X miles on Alaska purchases and 1X miles on all other purchases.
- Main Highlights: Alaska's Famous Companion Fare annually, free checked bag for yourself and up to 6 others traveling with you, and discounts on in-flight purchases.
- Annual Fee: $50 for the company, and $25 per card.
- Summary: This is the best business credit card for earning Alaska miles.
- Calculate Alaska Miles & Card Value per dollar spent for the Alaska Airlines Business Credit Card.
Best Partner Credit Cards
With Alaska having no major U.S. credit card rewards programs as transfer partners, you're left with transferring hotel rewards points to Alaska MileagePlan account. Out of all available partners, Marriott Bonvoy is the best option.
Marriott Bonvoy
Marriott Bonvoy points can be transferred to Alaska MileagePlan at a 3:1 ratio meaning that every 3,000 points you transfer will give you 1,000 Alaska miles. On top of that, Marriott will throw in a bonus 15,000 points for every 60,000-block of Marriott Bonvoy points you transfer which will give you an additional 5,000 Alaska miles.
Marriott offers a large amount of credit cards with several having intro bonuses that are high enough to net you a solid amount of Alaska miles. Here are our top picks for best Alaska credit cards:
How many Alaska credit card miles can you earn per dollar?
This table lists how many Alaska miles you can earn per $1 spent with Alaska Air credit cards and transfer partner credit cards by bonus category. This allows you to see which credit cards might be best for you based on which categories you spend the most in.
If you want to know which of these credit cards will earn you the most Alaska miles based on your monthly and yearly spend, jump down to the Alaska Credit Card Miles Calculator.
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Alaska Credit Card Miles Calculator
This calculator will give you a list of the best credit cards for earning Alaska miles based on the monthly and yearly spend amounts you enter. Results will include credit cards that earn Alaska miles directly and credit cards that earn rewards that are transferable to your Alaska MileagePlan account.
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These estimates are to help guide you towards making the best decision when it comes to picking up a rewards credit card. They should be used for illustrative purposes only.
You can click on the estimated earnings to see the calculations or click on the card to learn more and apply for the card through our partners.
Do note that all spend amounts entered into the tool above will carry over to every credit card rewards calculator on the site, so there's no need to re-enter spend if you choose to dive deeper into calculating rewards for credit cards on the site.
**Amount of rewards when transferred to program.
Alaska Airlines miles calculators
Check out all of our available Alaska miles calculators. Calculate everything from credit card miles to the cash value of miles based on redemption!
These calculators and guides are all about maximizing your spending and earning the most Alaska miles per dollar spent.
Use our Alaska Airlines credit card calculators to estimate how many miles you can earn and the cash value of the card based on the spend amounts you enter, how much you value benefits, and annual fees.
Our calculators allow you to compare up to two additional credit cards side by side based on same or different spend. Plus, all spend amounts you enter in the Primary card's column rolls over to all credit card rewards calculators on the site!
Need more Alaska miles? You can transfer miles directly to your account using a handful of hotel rewards program or buy miles directly from Alaska's website.
Want to know how much your miles are worth on average when redeeming them for flights and more? Use these calculators to find out and convert your Alaska miles to dollars for each redemption!
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