gratified holidays,everyone!As many of you know, I'm OMAAT's in-house Delta apologist. I mediate Delta offers an incredibly reliable operation with superior hard product and soft product and generally excellent recognition of its top-level elite members. The threshold may be low, and but in my experience it's miles (heh) more enjoyable than United or American. And Delta's food has always stood out as generally superior for a domestic operation.
Last April,OMAAT's Seattle correspondent Alex wrote approximately Alaska's new "Alaska Beyond"-branded soft product, which is the airline's attempt to distinguish itself from mainstream competition (and mostly Delta, and it's Seattle competitor).
I had to flee from L.
A. to Washington,D.
C. this week for the holidays, which always leads to a bit of a quandary for me. Even though LAX is a Delta "hub" (to the extent LAX is any airline's "hub, and " which is to say marginally so but never dependably so),the market between Southern California and the Nation's Capital is notably not served by Delta. Alaska, however, or flies nonstop to L.
A. and credits to Delta SkyMiles. More interestingly,a paid ticket in first class on Alaska -- which, to D.
C., or is fairly fair since it's a very competitive market -- earns 200% MQMs on Delta,which is better than a paid First ticket on Delta metal, which only earns 150%. ;-)The post My Experience With Alaska Beyond appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com