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Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« on: December 14, 2016, 12:45:00 PM »

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Today Virgin America and Alaska Airlines are officially joining forces to create the premier airline for people living on the West Coast. These two customer-favorite airlines are known for low fares and friendly service and, quite frankly, for being a bit different from other airlines. With a bigger network, more flights, richer rewards and global partners that span the world, we look forward to earning your loyalty and becoming your 'go-to' airline. Simply put, our goal is to meet all of the travel needs for customers living anywhere along the West Coast.

Combining the strengths of Virgin America and Alaska Airlines gives you access to an expanded route network with nearly 1,200 daily departures to 118 destinations across the United States, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica and Cuba. This represents almost one departure per minute! With hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland and Anchorage, we now offer more nonstop West Coast departures than any other airline, giving 50 million travelers more options every time they fly. And with our global partner network, we provide access to over 800 destinations worldwide.

We realize that people see Alaska Airlines and Virgin America as different — at least on the outside. That's fair. But both airlines have always been about doing things a little bit differently to offer something better for travelers. Virgin America and Alaska have both built outstanding reputations for low fares, on-time performance, innovative products and experiences, and award-winning customer service. Together, we are more than the sum of our parts.

In the short term, your Virgin America flight experience will stay the same. If you have already booked a flight or plan to book on Virgin America, you'll fly on a Virgin America aircraft and be welcomed by their fantastic Teammates, just as you are today.

As an Elevate member, you'll soon receive additional benefits. Starting Monday, December 19, you will be able to earn Elevate points when you fly on Alaska Airlines and we will provide more information regarding earn structure at that time. This doubles your flying options from the Bay Area and LAX and doubles your options for travel within California. It also opens up more vacation destinations, including all four major Hawaiian Islands. Additionally, Elevate elite members will have priority check-in and boarding on Alaska Airlines.

Effective Monday, January 9, we'll also be rolling out additional benefits for Elevate members:
We will invite you to enroll in Alaska's award-winning Mileage Plan, enabling access to our global partner network of over 800 worldwide destinations. You'll receive more detail on how Elevate points can be used to book award travel on Alaska and Alaska Global Partners at that time.
Elevate elites will be status matched into Mileage Plan, unlocking the generous benefits of our frequent flyer program, including complimentary first class upgrades on Alaska flights.
For more information, please visit www.differentworks.com.

We appreciate all that you love about Virgin America. We hope that as you get to know us at Alaska Airlines, you will see that, much like Virgin America, we have a relentless passion for making flying better for everyone.

All of us at Alaska Airlines look forward to starting this journey with you,

Virgin America
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Brad Tilden
Chief Executive Officer
Alaska Airlines   

Virgin America

just got this email  anyone have more info?
Sent from my iPod shuffle using a custom rom

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2016, 01:08:44 PM »
More service starting soon also.

Alaska service: LAX-HAV: 1/5/17 (pending government approval) EWR-SJC: 3/12/17; SAN-SMF: 3/16/17; PDX-MCO: 3/16/17; SJC-BUR: 3/16/17; SEA-SBP: 4/13/17; SEA-ICT: 4/13/17; SEA-IND: 5/11/17. *Other new service, between SNA-SFO, MSP-SFO, and MCO-SFO, to begin by summer 2017.

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2017, 12:38:14 PM »
how do i transfer virgin elevate ponits to alaska?

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2017, 03:32:11 PM »
how do i transfer virgin elevate ponits to alaska?

they haven't released how to link the accounts yet.

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2017, 03:39:34 PM »
how do i transfer virgin elevate ponits to alaska?

but i found this from someone via twitter.

https://buy.points.com/marketing/alaska-blw/landing-page/

i just went through the process but haven't seen the miles land in my ak account
confirmed... it took 15 minutes to show in my account.

 :)
« Last Edit: January 09, 2017, 03:55:12 PM by Shoeless »

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2017, 02:25:18 PM »
I just got an email with my Alaska Mileage Plan information and it's offering me either 10,000 miles or a $100 discount on a flight. But I'm having trouble activating the offer. It seems to think I'm already in the system but I don't think I am.

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2017, 03:05:08 PM »
I too got the email. link gave error and said to call.
called several times, had to hang up after 40 minute wait times

also rec'd email Reminder: You'll get 30% more miles when you convert your Elevate points to Mileage Plan miles.

whats more valuable elevate or mileageplan/Alaska?????  wont they be merged at 1 to 1 in the future??

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2017, 03:58:46 PM »
I too got the email. link gave error and said to call.
called several times, had to hang up after 40 minute wait times

also rec'd email Reminder: You'll get 30% more miles when you convert your Elevate points to Mileage Plan miles.

whats more valuable elevate or mileageplan/Alaska?????  wont they be merged at 1 to 1 in the future??


Will be merged 1:1.3, value depends what you use it for.

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2017, 10:50:00 PM »
One thing I can't understand why transcontinental flights on VX is 20k AS

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2017, 11:46:39 PM »
One thing I can't understand why transcontinental flights on VX is 20k AS

They changed from 12.5/25k?

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2017, 11:47:34 PM »
They changed from 12.5/25k?
Only VX flights is 20k each way in Y

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2017, 11:52:37 PM »
That is standard, not saver pricing.

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2017, 11:54:56 PM »
That is standard, not saver pricing.
Where do you see saver and standard? I see non refundable is 12,500-20,000 each way for continental US flights

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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2017, 12:12:27 AM »
Where do you see saver and standard? I see non refundable is 12,500-20,000 each way for continental US flights

12,500 = saver; 20,000 = standard.
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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2017, 04:49:24 PM »
Anyway to transfer Ultimate Rewards into Virgin America?

Would it be wise to ask someone with Virgin America points to transfer to me?

I need 900 Virgin America points or 1200 alaska
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Re: Virgin America and Alaska merger?
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2017, 06:00:02 PM »
Anyway to transfer Ultimate Rewards into Virgin America?

Would it be wise to ask someone with Virgin America points to transfer to me?

I need 900 Virgin America points or 1200 alaska
Lol, I hope you understand your second question