What is the Alaska Airlines Manage Booking section?
Alaska Airlines allows you to book flights online at any time, but also allows you to modify them in the event of unforeseen events pushing the passenger to change their plans, postponing their trip to a later date.
When you go to the Alaska Airlines website for the first time, you notice that it has a section called “Manage Trip”, this is actually where you manage your reservations. This section displays all your reservations in chronological order and allows you to modify them (by changing the departure date, the destination or by correcting incorrectly entered passenger names, …).
If you fly with Alaska Airlines, there is a dedicated web portal where all your reservations can be easily managed. By going to Alaskaair.com:
– Go to My Trips;
– Enter your name and flight reference to identify yourself;
– Edit your trip details and data, make seat reservations and add special requests (such as a meal selection or purchase of extra baggage). Click Continue when finished.
Cancel a flight ticket reservation
It is from this space that you can cancel your flight, by clicking on the “Cancel reservation” button next to the flight concerned.
Change the departure date of a flight booked with Alaska Airlines?
Sometimes this is possible, but sometimes not. You can change the departure date if your fare allows it. If you need to make changes to a booking, please check the fare conditions for your flight first.
In some cases, you cannot change the departure date of an existing reservation, but you can cancel it and create a new one with the desired departure date. You can also call your airline’s customer service for more information on this subject.
What is the Manage Booking section for?
– To know your seat allocation and reserve it if necessary, and if there are seats available, see who has reserved them so that you can allocate these seats to other passengers.
– Change a travel date, departure airport or destination
– Add, delete or modify the choice of a special meal to be served on board, excess baggage, …
– Print the boarding pass
Fees charged by Alaska Airlines for changing flight tickets
The US airline does not charge any fees for changes made on flights booked in Main and First Class fares.
If the passenger chooses to book a new flight, he can cancel the first one from the Manage Booking section, then launch a new booking and pay the difference in price.
Changes are free when applied before departure. If the passenger modifies his reservation on the day of departure, he must pay fees ranging from $25 to $50 before validating it.
Alaska Airlines also informs its passengers that airline tickets booked with promotional fares or including discounts cannot be modified or exchanged.
Alaska Airlines Online Rebooking Service: Which flights are eligible?
This service is offered and accessible only to passengers:
– Having purchased their tickets from Alaska Airlines
– Have not yet confirmed their registration or print their boarding passes
– Not having chosen the Saver tariff or a Government tariff
– Do not plan to travel in a group with more than seven members
– Not having booked award tickets to travel on airlines served by Latam Airlines or Cathay Pacific.
– Not having reserved a seat for their pets.
Alaska Airlines Online Rebooking Service: Which flights are eligible?
This service is offered and accessible only to passengers:
– Having purchased their tickets from Alaska Airlines;
– Have not yet confirmed their registration or print their boarding passes;
– Not having chosen the Saver tariff or a Government tariff;
– Do not plan to travel in a group with more than seven members;
– Not having booked award tickets to travel on airlines served by Latam Airlines or Cathay Pacific;
– Not having reserved a seat for their pets.
This category of travelers should contact Alaska Airlines Customer Service, can be reached at 1.800.252.75.22 to ask them to make the necessary changes to their reservation.
For changes to a group flight reservation, call 1-800-445-4435.
For reservations made by third-party agencies, it is up to them to take charge of changing the flights.