Good morning from rainy San Francisco. I hope you all had a great (sunny) weekend. Since I was stuck inside most of the weekend, I did some travel planning (I do that anyway even if the weather is great). I booked a quick weekend trip to Portland in mid May and I even found Alaska Airlines saver award space for the return flight from PDX to SFO at a convenient time (not 6 or 7am). After calling British Airways several times and finally getting through after hearing the busy dial tone 5+ times, I booked the return flight using British Airways Avios. It was not the greatest redemption ever, but I had British Airways Avios to burn.
For the outbound flight from SFO to PDX, I searched on Google Flights and found a few decent flight times and prices. Since I am traveling with my roommate, I needed to get 2 tickets. I have access to a few Alaska Airlines $99 companion ticket codes (the codes are transferrable and can be booked by anyone). Here is the standard price for 2 one way tickets:
And here is the price with the $99 Alaska Airlines companion ticket. As you can see, the price with the companion ticket is 43 cents higher than booking the flights without the companion ticket. I decided to save the companion ticket for a future flight and researched other flight options.
