Short AA Flights from 4.5k Points, 9k Biz

Alaska Mileage Plan prices American Airlines flights on a distance-based partner award chart, which means short hops under 700 miles start at just 4,500 miles in economy and 9,000 in business. The chart scales up from there for longer distances, but the short-haul tier is where the value stands out. Bilt is the only credit card program that transfers to Alaska at 1:1.

	Economy	Business
Alaska	4.5k+, $5.60	9k+, $5.60

Alaska uses a distance-based award chart. Under 700 miles gets you this pricing. AA often charges much more in cash for these same hops.

Anything under ~700 miles on American Airlines. Some examples: ORD-EWR, ORD-MSN, LGA-YYZ, LGA-BUF, LGA-AVL, LGA-DTW, LAX-SFO, DFW-ASE, DFW-LIT, DFW-EGE, and many more.

Use the seats.aero Alaska explore page to check pricing from your home airport, or search on Alaska directly. Book through Alaska Mileage Plan.

Business on short AA hops is a wider seat in the front of the plane with no lounge access. Can be worth it for the extra luggage allowance.

The availability cards above show real-time award space from seats.aero, updated throughout the day. Each card shows a date, route, points price, and which program is offering it. When multiple programs show space on the same date, the cheapest option is listed first.

If you see filter pills above the cards, you can narrow results to a specific program. Hovering over a program name shows which credit card points transfer to it.

Before you transfer points: Always verify the availability directly on the booking program's website. Award space can disappear between the time seats.aero checks and when you go to book. Transfer points only after you have confirmed the seat exists on alaskaair.com. Points transfers are one-way and non-reversible.