If you get an Alaska Airlines credit card, you get a certificate for a companion ticket. They used to list it is as a "free" ticket, now they say "Receive an annual Companion Fare from $110 (USD) ($99 base fare plus taxes and fees, from $11 depending on your Alaska Airlines flight itinerary).
Anyone here used these recently? What was your experience? Can you use it for a first class ticket? Any issues with availability? What kinds of fees did you pay?
Experience with Alaska Airlines Companion Tickets?
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It was never free, it went from $50 to $99 a couple of years ago.
You can use it on any fare, including first class. We always use it on first class transcontinental tickets, or to Hawaii.
No availability issues - it books into the same fare category as the purchased one, and there are no additional fees except the $99 and the same taxes that apply to the "regular" ticket. Note that it's only good on flights actually operated by Alaska (not on partners' flights) and both the $99 and regular tickets need to have identical itineraries.
Meant to add, the companion ticket earns full frequent flyer miles, just like the full-priced one.
Thanks so much, Gardyloo. Great information! We are going to start using Alaska for our flights to Hawaii, as they have non-stops from Seattle that now have good times. For years, we've been connecting through SFO to LIH both because of good arrival/departure times from LIH and because I was going for million miler status on United. Now that I'm a million-miler on United, I don't have to think about that anymore - lol. A couple decades ago I used to have MVP status on Alaska, but that is long gone, as well as the miles I accumulated back then.