[Expired] Multiply Your Alaska Airlines Miles by up to 8x, up to 30% Off

Earned any Alaska Airlines miles recently? If so, you may be able to multiply those Mileage Plan miles by up to 8x with up to a 30% discount.

This promotion is essentially a way to buy Alaska Airlines miles by multiplying your recent earnings. Does it make sense? Let’s check the math.

Multiply Your Recent Alaska Airlines Miles

This promotion from Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan is targeted, meaning not everyone will be able to participate.

Additionally, you need to have recent earnings in your Mileage Plan account to participate. I’m not eligible, as the only recent earnings in my account came from spending on an Alaska Airlines credit card.

My wife got an email about this promotion, however, offering to multiply her recent earnings by up to 8x with up to a 30% discount. This offer is valid until December 9, 2024, and it applies to miles earned between July 1 and September 30, 2024.

My wife’s account has 4,726 miles that are eligible for the promotion, and these are the tiers available:

• 1x multiplication with a 20% discount (2.2 cents per mile)
• 2x multiplication with a 20% discount (2.2 cents)
• 4x multiplication with a 25% discount (2.06 cents)
• 8x multiplication with a 30% discount (1.92 cents)

At best, you can purchase miles in this offer at 1.92 cents each. Here are the terms you should know about:

• Offer is exclusive to those who received it and can’t be shared with others.
• Purchase deadline is December 9, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. PT.
• Limit of 1 transaction per member using this offer.
• Maximum number of miles you can boost is 35,000, even if you earned more miles than that during the qualifying period of July 1-September 30, 2024.
• Some miles can’t be boosted or multiplied, including those earned from credit cards, purchases of miles, or bonus miles from elite or cabin bonuses on flights.
• Purchases by Canadian residents will incur GST, HST, and/or QST, as applicable.
• The maximum purchase of miles across all promotions annually is 150,000 miles; this is waived if you have Mileage Plan elite status.
• Direct link to offer

Is It Worth It?

Should you buy Alaska Airlines miles at 1.92 cents each? That’s what this boils down to.

The most recent sale to buy miles in the typical manner — not multiplying miles — offered a price of 1.85 cents per mile, so this miles multiplier isn’t as good as that. Moreover, you can currently buy Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles for just 1.27 cents each. Afterward, you can freely and instantly transfer your HawaiianMiles to Mileage Plan at a 1:1 ratio.

However, you may not need to buy miles at all. You can transfer points from Bilt Rewards to Mileage Plan at a 1:1 ratio or transfer from Marriott Bonvoy at a 3:1 ratio. You also can earn Alaska Airlines miles from both a small business credit card and a personal credit card, both issued by Bank of America.

If you’ve tapped out other sources and want to increase your Mileage Plan balance, then this offer to multiply your recently earned miles can make sense. For everyone else, the price isn’t very attractive.

Final Thoughts

If you earned any Alaska Airlines miles between July 1 and September 30, you may be able to multiply them by up to 8x with up to a 30% discount. This offer is targeted, and it only runs through December 9. It won’t make sense for most people, but it’s good to know this option exists if you’ve exhausted other methods of getting Alaska miles.