The incredible Alaska Airlines companion fare..

Alaska Airlines credit card is issued by Bank of America in U.S.A. Although the card has annual fees of $75, it does comes with a decent sign up bonus for 25k to 40k miles and a great companion fare ticket which you receive after the minimum spend requirement and then annually after paying the annual fees. The companion fare allows the purchase of companion ticket for $99+ taxes and fees (Or for $0+ taxes and fees for 1st year of companion certificate if you had hop on the promotion last year).

Alaska Airlines maintains an FAQ for the companion fare, but the real incredible feature is not mentioned there. Below is the quick summary about the companion fare:

• The companion fare can be used to book tickets for any 2 person as long as the ticket is purchased and paid with the credit card of the person who was issued the companion pass (Note: Starting Oct 1st, 2019, Alaska Airlines will require the use of Alaska Airlines credit card for purchase of the ticket).
• All economy class tickets can be booked with companion fare, in fact you can book up-gradable tickets which can be later upgraded to premium class using cash, miles or upgrade instruments.
• Both passengers on companion pass tickets earn full redeemable/elite mileage as well as any bonus associated with the actual fare purchased. 
• The ticket only needs to be purchased by the expiration date on the companion certificate, but the travel could be up to 12 months in the future. (Note: Any itinerary cancellation or changes after the expiration of certificate might void the certificate for future use).
• You can travel to any of the 115+ destinations of Alaska Airlines using the companion fare including Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica.
• The companion fare can be used to book one way, round trip, multi-city itinerary where the companion ticket costs only $99+taxes.

There are other details/restrictions of the companion fare and the official Alaska Airlines blog details the booking process, but the biggest highlight is the multi-city itinerary. Since you can enter up to 4 city pairs online you can technically have two stopovers of as many days you wish before you hit your final destination. Take a look at below example:

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2 passenger can fly from HNL-SJC-JFK-SJC-HNL all for $627.20!

As you can see from above, you can fly from Honolulu to San Jose and to New York and back all in for a great price and stop at multiple locations for a good amount of time. That's a lot of flying. On top of it you can have open-jaw ticket flying in and out of different airport and thus you can maximize your companion fare further.

Total of 9,972 miles of flight time for ~$627 for 2 persons is a steal!

Given that each passenger would also earn 1 mile for each mile flown, you would earn good amount of miles. Also Alaska Airlines partners with various international airlines such as Cathay Pacific, Emirates etc, so in addition to Alaska Airlines you can redeem your miles on these partner airlines as well. So, if you are on the sidelines but do plan to travel with your companion and stay close to Alaska Airlines flight destinations, you would definitely want to take a look at Alaska Airlines credit card!

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