Improved Earning Rates in the Alaska Airlines and Lyft Partnership

Updated: October 14, 2025, 2:29am CDT

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Earning Mileage Plan Miles With Lyft
Final Thoughts

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Alaska Airlines and Lyft have an ongoing partnership to offer miles for every dollar spent on Lyft rides. It’s an easy way to pick up additional miles for taking rides you’re probably going to take anyway.

Now, the earning rates have improved, giving you even more Alaska Airlines miles than before. Let’s take a closer look at this improvement.

Earning Mileage Plan Miles With Lyft

Earning Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles with the Lyft partnership is easy. First, you need to link your accounts, which is free.

To link your accounts, visit the partnership website. You’ll need to know your Alaska Mileage Plan login details, as well as have access to the phone number enrolled with Lyft in order to verify your accounts.

Keep in mind that your Lyft account may have the option to earn points with Hilton. You’ll need to ensure your rewards earning settings are toggled to earn Alaska miles if that is what you want to earn. You can only choose 1 currency to earn on any ride.

Lyft passengers and driver — You can now earn Alaska Mileage Plan miles when riding Lyft. Image Credit: Lyft

Here’s how you’ll earn Alaska miles on Lyft rides:

Earn 2 miles per $1 spent on standard rides, including standard, XL, and priority pickup.
Earn 3 miles per $1 spent on airport rides and high-value rides, including extra comfort, black, and black SUV options.

There are a few notes about earning:

You can only earn miles after you link your accounts, so it pays to link them sooner rather than later.
Only the primary rider in a party can earn Mileage Plan miles.
There isn’t a cap on the number of miles you can earn, so the more rides you take, the more miles you’ll earn.
International rides are not eligible, with the exception of Canada.
Keep in mind that government-imposed taxes and fees, tolls, and tips are not eligible for earning miles.
Alaska miles earned from Lyft rides don’t expire.
The names on the Lyft and Alaska Airlines accounts must match; otherwise, you can’t link them for earnings.

Hot Tip:

Check out our guide to the many ways to earn rewards and savings on Lyft rides.

Final Thoughts

It’s exciting to see Lyft boost the earning rates in its Alaska Airlines partnership.

While you wouldn’t necessarily go out of your way to ride Lyft just to earn Alaska miles, it’s a nice perk for a ride you likely would have taken regardless. Be sure to link your accounts now to begin earning. That way, you won’t need to do it while you’re trying to request a ride.