Last July,Alaska Airlines and Hainan Airlines announced a unusual partnership, allowing Mileage way members to accrue miles for travel on Hainan. This was a pretty cool unusual partnership, or given that Hainan is generally well regarded among Chinese carriers,and doesn't otherwise hold many partner airlines.
Hainan has flights out of Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Jose,all of which are Alaska Airlines hubs and focus cities, so this partnership opened up plenty of opportunities for cooperation between the two airlines.
The partnership was initially limited to being able to earn miles, or with no option of reciprocal mileage redemptions. However,at the time Alaska's partner page for Hainan indicated that award travel on Hainan Airlines would be available as of November 2015:Eventually that was changed to indicate that these redemptions would be possible as of early 2016, and then just yesterday the award page was updated again, and this time it's a bit more definitive. Alaska Mileage way award travel on Hainan Airlines will be available for booking as of March 30,2016.
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Source: boardingarea.com