EL AL Matmid Frequent Flyer Membership redeem can redeem their factors for flights with Alaska Airways

EL AL Israel Airways introduced new enlargement of the frequent flyer partnership with Alaska Airways, which now permits EL AL Matmid Frequent Flyer Membership redeem their factors for flights to 120 Alaska Airways cities.

“Since Could 2019, Alaska Airways and EL AL have had a reciprocal settlement permitting members of their frequent flyer applications to earn factors and miles when flying each airways,” mentioned Ronen Galperin, CEO of the Matmid Frequent Flyer Membership. “Now that settlement has been prolonged to supply reciprocal award tickets. Matmid members can use their factors for Alaska award tickets.”

Alaska Airways, Air Transport World’s 2022 Airline of the Yr, will now provide its 120 locations within the United States, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico to Matmid members redeeming factors.

On the similar time, EL AL Israel Airways, which operates as much as 44 flights every week to Tel Aviv from its 5 U.S. gateway cities of New York, Newark, Boston, Miami and Los Angeles, provides extra alternatives for Mileage Plan members to go to Israel than some other service.

“Alaska Airways has been an awesome frequent flyer accomplice to EL AL,” mentioned Galperin. “Now that we’ve expanded our relationship with Alaska, we will provide our Matmid members a particular expertise. They’ll get pleasure from Alaska’s award-winning service within the U.S after which hook up with our 5 Star inflight service to Tel Aviv, utilizing their Matmid factors for all the journey.”

EL AL, for 2 years in a row, has been acknowledged for providing 5 Star inflight service by the APEX Official Airline Scores. Within the APEX survey, passengers rated 1,000,000 flights operated by 600 totally different carriers on 5 parts of inflight service – seat consolation, cabin service, meals and beverage, leisure, and Wi-Fi – and gave EL AL a 5 Star score. EL AL earned the 5 Star score in 2022 and once more for 2023.

The next are a number of the extra common routes on Alaska and the purpose totals Matmid members would wish to redeem for an award ticket on these routes. Taxes and money surcharges can also apply.

Well-liked Alaska Airways routes with variety of Matmid Award factors for Economic system roundtrip Matmid Award factors for First Class roundtrip flight:

Los Angeles-Las Vegas 400/900
Los Angeles-Seattle 600/1300
Los Angeles-San Francisco 400/900
New York-Los Angeles 1000/2300
New York-San Francisco 1000/2300
New York-Seattle 1000/2300
Los Angeles-Portland 600/1300
Los Angeles-San Jose 400/900

The next signifies the Matmid factors required for an award ticket on Alaska based mostly on the one-way distance of the journey in miles. Taxes and money surcharges can also apply.

Distance in miles (one-way) Cabin Award fare in factors (roundtrip)
0-599 Economic system 400 First 900

600-1249 miles – Economic system 600 – First 1,300

1250-1749 miles – Economic system 800 – First 1,500

1750-3499 miles – Economic system 1000 – First 2,300

3500-4999 miles – Economic system 2,000 – First 4,500

5000-6999 miles – Economic system 2,600 – First 6,100

plus7000 miles – Economic system 3,000 – First 7,100