The power of Alaska Miles

so let's jump into what you could do with Alaska miles and why they're special it used to be like around 2011 British Airways launched obious and for 49,000 avos were able to book domestic short Hall flights on American so New York to Cleveland Pittsburgh Detroit Toronto Montreal Boston DC short Hall routs like that Miami to the Caribbean Miami to Cancun Los Angeles over to Vegas or San Francisco there's lots of great short Hall routes so those used to be 4 and half th000 British Airways miles and they've raised it them to six and seven and a half and 11 and a half now it's 165 thousand British Airways obious so it's no longer a good deal with British Airways but Alaska came and changed their Award chart they lowered the price which is unheard of why they do that just to gain more popularity for their program they have a smaller program it's a niche program but they want people to open up their credit cards and participate in their loyalty program they have just the one Hub in Seattle they just merge with Hawaiian Airlines they have their Hub in Anchorage their primary Hub in Seattle they also had a secondary Hub in Portland Oregon and now they have the Honolulu Hub that they've inherited from Hawaiian really striving to become an international carrier they're launching flights over to Asia now from Seattle which they've never done before so they're becoming a larger player I could totally see over the Trump Administration them trying to buy JetBlue for example