Alaska Airlines recently completed their merger with Virgin America. Apparently as part of the merger (or possibly as a mistake), they have deposited 10,000 miles into many member accounts. While neither my wife nor I have received any miles (BOO!), several readers have reported in the Miles to Memories Facebook group that they have received them.
Apparently the miles are coded as follows:
SPECIAL SERVICES ELEVATE MEMBER OTO 10K BONUS
I have seen enough reports of this bonus posting to believe it is fairly widespread, however there are some people including myself who haven’t received it. The use of the term “Elevate Member” certainly refers to Virgin America’s loyalty program. At the very least it is probably worth checking your account to see if it has posted.
Did you receive this 10K bonus? If so, do you have any idea what triggered it?
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Shockeroo- yes I did!! Wow. I didn’t know anything about this until I saw your post. I only had some Elevate miles from signing up for a couple of newsletters in the past few months (per travel blog posts).
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My cousin got this and I was utterly shocked!
My wife received the 10k, but I did not. AND I was the one who signed us both up, HA! Perhaps it’s because we both got the Alaska BofA card. We paid hers off 1st, and will be paying off mine tomorrow
I got it too and I have Elevated account.
Nope
Never flew with VX but a Gold via status match; flew on AS only once but on an award ticket. I’ve linked my VX and AS accounts on the day the merger was finalised.
Got the 10k miles. I’m not particularly active on either carrier though: in 2016, I flew VX once (SFO-LAX) and AS three times (SJC-SEA x2, SEA-SJC). I applied for (but didn’t end up flying) the B6 match.
No for me.
My wife got it today. She just had a flight Virgin America yesterday..maybe related to that as well. I am hoping somehow magically shows up on mine also…
Got 10k miles as well. I have a VX account and got the b6 match as well.
I received the 10k. I am an MVP gold member with Alaska. None of my other family members received and none have status with Alaska. We all have Elevate accounts, but mine was the only one with activity, even though it was Starwood transfer activity
Yep. Saw it today when I ran award wallet update, wasn’t there 24 hrs ago. Keyed in “ELEVATE MEMBER OTO 10K BONUS” into google and got a couple of links explaining it. this was on of the links.
How do they know you are an elevate member? Was there a way to link the accounts?
Not yet, but they automatically linked some accounts themselves. Account linking is coming this week I believe.
My wife got 10K but I didn’t. Neither of us have ever flown Virgin America but had signed up for an account in when the merger was announced…
I received the 10k. Never flown Alaska, flown VA roundtrip once. MVP status w/ Alaska due to status match from Frontier. No status with VA. Have biz and personal Alaska cards.
Do you have status w/ Alaska?
No-fer on our 5 family accounts.
Just checked and confirmed that I have received the 10K miles today. Not sure what triggered it though. Never flew with them before but did have their personal and business cards which I cancelled last year. Am also a Virgin America member to get in on that points match offer with JetBlue. Also never flew with Virgin America nor have any credit cards with them.