Wide Open: Redeem Alaska Miles For Starlux Business Class

In 2023, we saw Alaska Airlines and Starlux Airlines launch a partnership, coinciding with the Taiwanese carrier commencing service to the United States. While award availability was great for about a day when the partnership first launched, unfortunately it has been extremely limited since then. Fortunately at the moment, quite a bit of Starlux award availability has opened up, so act fast!

Redeem Alaska miles for Starlux business class

Currently Starlux Airlines doesn’t belong to any global alliance (though the airline hopes to join oneworld), and Alaska Mileage Plan is the only practical program for redeeming on Starlux. Fortunately there’s some good news for those who are ready to book travel, as reported by @pointslodi.

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Between March 1 and May 16, 2025, Starlux business class award availability across the Pacific is wide open, with most flights having two business class award seats. This is true across Starlux’s destinations in the United States, which are comprised of Los Angeles (LAX), San Francisco (SFO), and Seattle (SEA).

What’s award pricing like, if you’re redeeming Alaska Mileage Plan miles? Below is the Alaska Mileage Plan award chart for the Asia-Pacific region, which covers all flights in question. Specifically:

• You’ll pay 15,000 miles for a Starlux business class itinerary covering a distance of under 1,500 miles
• You’ll pay 50,000 miles for a Starlux business class itinerary covering a distance of 1,501-3,000 miles
• You’ll pay 60,000 miles for a Starlux business class itinerary covering a distance of 3,001-5,000 miles
• You’ll pay 75,000 miles for a Starlux business class itinerary covering a distance of 5,001-7,000 miles
• You’ll pay 85,000 miles for a Starlux business class itinerary covering a distance of 7,001-10,000 miles

Also keep in mind that Mileage Plan allows free stopovers, so you can always stop in Taiwan enroute to another destination. For the routes that do have award space, there’s often also availability for connecting itineraries, if you want to travel beyond Taipei (TPE).

Being able to redeem 75K-85K miles for a transpacific business class award on a great airline is an opportunity worth being aware of, in my opinion.

Why this is a solid redemption opportunity

Award availability across the Pacific simply isn’t as good as it used to be, especially in premium cabins. That’s largely because airlines from mainland China are operating a small percentage of their pre-pandemic transpacific schedule, and back in the day, they did a lot of capacity dumping.

So the truth is that reliably finding any business class award space across the Pacific isn’t easy. When a quality airline like Starlux makes a lot of business class award space available, it’s absolutely worth taking advantage of.

I’ve reviewed Starlux’s A350-900 business class, A330-900neo business class, and A321neo business class.

Bottom line

At the moment, Alaska Mileage Plan has a significant amount of Starlux business class award availability for travel this spring, between the beginning of March and the middle of May of 2025. There are two business class award seats on most flights, so if you could benefit from this availability, I’d recommend locking in something ASAP.

Anyone taking advantage of this great Starlux award availability?