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Old Jan 7, 2016 | 9:43 am
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Originally Posted by hiima
So I was MVP 75K last year, nothing this year, since I've been banking all my miles on AA. Alaska miles themselves are great, but the status itself is below AA in my ranks. So I booked a flight before year end last year for a flight soon and I've just found out that I was upgraded to F. Now I kind of feel bad for not getting AS status this year even though I would've at least gotten gold if I had banked a majority of my flying. Kind of but not really.
OP obtained 75K status from a status match (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24530667-post371.html) and credited all of the AS miles flown for the year of the match to AA.

It's not surprising that there's unfamiliarity with how the program works.
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