What to do with expiring Alaska Air credit?
November 16, 2021 1:00 PM Subscribe
Because of COVID cancellations, I have $600 in my Alaska Airline wallet set to expire at the end of this year. But I moved to Canada and try my best not to fly for environmental reasons anyway. What can I do with this credit other than let it waste away? Can I donate it somehow? I could use some ideas.
fingersandtoes, I think OP is asking about a flight credit (as opposed to miles). Per the Alaska Air webiste about flight certificates, it looks like you cannot transfer. One of the site's conditions is that "credit certificates are non-transferable and will be forfeited if bartered or sold."
This is consistent with other airlines' COVID cancellation terms, which generally have been to extend the time you can use credits but to require that the named traveler has to use them. (I ran into this issue with both a United and an American credit earlier this year...)
posted by AgentRocket at 1:17 PM on November 16, 2021 [3 favorites]
This is consistent with other airlines' COVID cancellation terms, which generally have been to extend the time you can use credits but to require that the named traveler has to use them. (I ran into this issue with both a United and an American credit earlier this year...)
posted by AgentRocket at 1:17 PM on November 16, 2021 [3 favorites]
If it's just a wallet credit, you can use it to book flights for other people. You can't sell it on eBay or anything - at least according to the TOS - but you can book a flight for a bona fide friend or family member.
Note also that while the credit expires in about 6.5 weeks, you can use it to buy travel out to the end of the schedule. As of today, the Alaska website allows you to book flights out to October 12, 2022, and that will be late November 2022 by the end of the year. If you or any friends/family have travel in that time frame, you can use these funds to buy that.
posted by Hatashran at 2:10 PM on November 16, 2021 [2 favorites]
Note also that while the credit expires in about 6.5 weeks, you can use it to buy travel out to the end of the schedule. As of today, the Alaska website allows you to book flights out to October 12, 2022, and that will be late November 2022 by the end of the year. If you or any friends/family have travel in that time frame, you can use these funds to buy that.
posted by Hatashran at 2:10 PM on November 16, 2021 [2 favorites]
And to clarify the conflict between my comment and AgentRocket's, flight credits are attached to a specific person while wallet funds are not.
posted by Hatashran at 2:12 PM on November 16, 2021
posted by Hatashran at 2:12 PM on November 16, 2021
It's been a long time, but I was always been able to use credit vouchers to pay for tickets for someone else as long as I was the one doing the booking. That was with Delta and American.
posted by wierdo at 4:24 PM on November 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by wierdo at 4:24 PM on November 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
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posted by fingersandtoes at 1:02 PM on November 16, 2021