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Upcoming Changes to MBNA Alaska Airlines Mastercards
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MBNA Rewards World Elite® Mastercard®
- Earn 20,000 MBNA Rewards points† upon spending $2,000 within the first 90 days of account opening
- Plus, earn 10,000 MBNA Rewards points† for opting into electronic statements within the first 90 days of account opening
- Earn
1x5x MBNA Rewards points† on groceries, restaurants, digital media, memberships, and utilities - Use your points for any travel bookings available on MBNA Rewards†
- Strong travel insurance and mobile device protection†
- Annual fee: $120
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I would love to see an update from the Prince of Travel folks regarding the question of if/when we will be able to convert MBNA points to Alaska Airlines. I’m tired of waiting and don’t want to pay for another year of the MBNA card if the conversion process isn’t going to happen. Presumably PoT staff have contacts at MBNA they can ask?
Hi Carl. You are right, PoT does have MBNA contacts, and we do regularly reach out on this topic, but unfortunately, there has just been no news yet from the MBNA side. You can bet we’ll have a new blog post up the moment we have any new information at all on this subject. We are all anxiously waiting for this to materialize as well. Cheers.
Awesome, thanks Zach!
LIES. All lies. Almost a year and MNBA is silent on this. Do yourself a favor and drop the card.
Has anyone heard any updates on this program? It’s been 6 months since they changed over my card but there is still no word on actually converting my MBNA points to Alaska.
I phoned MBNA and CSR said it can’t transfer to AS. I said you have this in writting and that’s the reason I allowed to keep this card when you had the change from AS to MBNA rewards. Then she transfered me to travel department, same story, no able to transfer to AS and they said they can’t do anything. WTF!
Hi James, the ability to transfer between MBNA and Alaska has not been implemented yet. Stay tuned to the website, as we will post something as soon as there is news to report.
I just got off the phone with Paul, a supervisor from MBNA. He said that things were still in the works, but he had no idea of timelines. They haven’t heard anything about caps on points transfer of the program being pulled – but he also wasn’t aware that MBNA hasn’t communicated anything with their customers regarding this delay. The person I spoke to before talking to a supervisor told me it should be up and running mid-year – like maybe June. But Paul said it could be next week and it could be 6 months from now. No idea. But it’s been 8 months since I got my letter from MBNA saying they were going to change the program. You’d think they would have it more together than this. All very disappointing.
Hi, I wouldnt call it disappointing, the fact that they even allow such conversion is a great news. And let’s not forget that this card has 5x points capability. I’m thankful for them to even think of making conversion a thing.
Because there is no news yet. You can bet that if the conversion does come true, the whole community will be talking about it. So for now, nobody knows anything yet
Just having been sent an update from Mbna I do believe this card will be better at redeeming Alaska Miles than the previous Alaska Mbna. Being able to get more Mbna points per dollar amount and then transferring to the Alaska Mileage Plan at 1:1 this is a Win Win deal. It not a matter of if but when!
Still no word on really any partnership with AA. If there was an existing relationship, it would have been marketed right at the bat. I dont want to spend $120 for the “possibility” of AA being added. Their existing catalog is current devoid of ANY travel airline relationship loyalty program. I’ll cancel now and maybe rejoin at another time. Dont promise to pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today.
The biggest benefit of this card was the companion voucher. Although it’s nice to have the 1:1 transfer rate, I question if the card is worth it without the the companion flight.
Best feature of Cobalt is gift cards at Grocery store – does anybody know if that works with this card? Would it be reasonable to expect bigger sign up bonuses with a September roll-out?
Would this make the MBNA World Elite a strong competitor to the Amex Cobalt card?! Hmm… similar points on food, but also digital media and utilities. And, it’s a MC so more widely accepted. Seems like it might be but wondering what the airline proposition is with Alaska partners. Thoughts?
would it be prudent to sign up for the MBNA Rewards card now and cancel the alaska card in order to get the welcome bonus?
Big if true
I also received the letter from MBNA and will be transitioning to the WE card. Looking forward to max out the accelerators and transferring to the Alaska Mileage program. This one is a win.
Any idea if the companion vouchers will vanish from our accounts come Sept 1?
It looks like any issued in 2023 will be valid through to their regular expiration date.
I received a letter from MBNA about the card terminating 8/31 yesterday, but nothing about being transitioned to another MBNA card.