Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan and on this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos. If you like what you see, please do the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today, I'll talk about some recent changes made to the Alaska Airlines Great Curs and how to fly to Hawaii, paying only $121 US for your companion. Before I start today's video, let me introduce myself. I'm a financial author and travel expert and this is the only channel and my website amitdan.com where you're going to find honest non-affiliated and unbiased opinions about travel and trade cards because I do not Do any affiliated links or I do not take any money from the trade card companies So all the videos are reviews. They're honest and unbiased and they're not paid for by any trade card company I have over 20 great cards and my credit score over 20 over eight eight hundred and I Do lots of traveling which you'll find on this channel. Most of them are on business class and on expensive hotels for which I have used my points and other Rewards mileage and paying very little for these travels and I document my travel videos So you can see those videos on this channel as well Today, I'll talk about Alaska Airlines Great Curs in Canada So Alaska Airlines offers two different great cars in Canada. One is the Alaska World Airlines World Elite MasterCard and the other one is the Alaska Airlines Platinum Plus MasterCard and both of them are these through MB&A So these great cars offer $75 annual fee and $99 annual fee Platinum Plus and the World Elite MasterCard and the sign-up bonus for these cars are 20,000 Alaska Airlines miles for the Platinum Plus and 30,000 for the World Elite MasterCard In order to get the sign-up bonus, you have to spend $1,000 within the first three months Now these cards have a unique feature, which is the annual companion of fear after you meet the requirement for $100,000 spending within the first three months, you'll receive the companion flight in your Alaska Airlines mileage plus account I'm showing you this from Alaska Airlines website. So both of these two great cars offer annual companion fear using which you can fly to anywhere Alaska Airlines fly which the cost is $121 US and the first Ticket you have to pay full fare and the companion fare Will be for $121. There's no limit where you can go as long as it's covered by Alaska Airlines So this $121 companion fare can save you a lot of time. So the way it works here when you meet the first $1,000 spending requirement on the Alaska Airlines Platinum Plus MasterCard or the World Elite MasterCard Then after spending the $1,000 in the first 90 days your companion fare discount code will be credited to your primary account approximately after two billing cycle and starting that this is only for the first year and Then starting the second year, you'll be receiving the annual companion flight code companion fare discount code Within the first two billing cycle after the first anniversary date So that your anniversary date is actually not when you open the your opened your credit card. It is actually Approximately six to eight weeks after the date and on which you originally open the credit card The companion fare discount code is a good way to fly Anywhere so I can just give you an example flying to Hawaii So let's say if you're flying to Hawaii from a Canadian location served by Alaska Airlines Which would be examples would be such as Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Victoria Whistler and I believe Kelowna as well. So you have to fly from these locations and If you are paying a regular fare for the first flight or for the first fare Which is going to be for yourself. Then it's approximately $1,000 or it could be even 1100 or $1,200 your first fare and then your companion fare is going to be only $121 US Plus taxes so as you can see that That's a huge savings and this is one of the very unique features of this car and then This car has actually another feature, which is a very good feature is that you can have You can have a free check back benefit for the primary Account owner. So let's say if you have if you're the account holder Then you can have your free check back and then you can actually have Free check back for up to six passengers on as long as you're on the same reservation So if you're booking for up to six people including yourself, then you can have first check back free so that's that's a very good good feature to have and then those bonus points for 30,000 or 20,000 based on which card you're receiving you don't have to actually use the Alaska Airlines You can use any of the partner members For example, these are Alaska airline partners Some of them are very well-known. For example, American Airlines, British Airways, Cata Pacific, Amriets, Fiji Airlines, and they have so many more airlines So you don't have to actually use Alaska Airlines. All you need to do to redeem your points Is to use one of these partners So Alaska Airlines is one of the most valuable mileage or points currency out there and Due to the fact that it is giving you the annual companion fare plus free check back for up to six passengers or six Six persons on the same reservation. This is a very Good card to have the only thing is that it doesn't fly out of Toronto for which to use the annual companion fare So you have to fly one of the places served by Alaska Airlines in Canada, which is mainly Western Canada and their Vancouver, Victoria Calgary and other places such as Kelowna Whistler and Edmonton So these are the places served by Alaska Airlines in Canada So to wrap up everything Alaska Airlines or lead mastercard annual fees now $99 with a 30,000 sign-up bonus miles But you have to spend $1,000 within the first three months and then Alaska Airlines Platinum Plus Mastercard has $75 annual fee, but it gives you 20,000 points or Alaska Airlines miles and same Minimum is spent requirement here. You have to spend $1,000 within the first Three months or first 90 days and then both of these cards give annual companion fare Which lets you fly anywhere Alaska Airlines fly and the companion fare cost is $120 US plus taxes and mileage So I have a full unboxing and review on Alaska Airlines World Lead Mastercard I'll provide you the description the link in the description box below and if you like what you see Let's give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. There'll be more videos coming up on travel and credit cards So I'll see you shortly. Thank you for watching