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Old Dec 19, 2016 | 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by GrayAnderson
To quote the email:
Once you activate your new account [Post-January 9th], your Elevate elite status will be automatically matched by Alaska Mileage Plan through 2017. In addition, your 2016 Elevate elite status will automatically be extended through 2017.

Here's my guess:
(1) AS was already offering this (their status match program was offering to match VX status through the end of next year off of 2016 status); and
(2) The merger cast a pall over a lot of our travel plans (due to various and sundry issues). I know I pulled at least two trips from VX as a result (WAS-SFO/LAX-SEA and DEN-SFO-WAS) and chucked the credit card. So I'm guessing that VX had an unusually high number of people dropping significantly in status as a result and AS wants to get those customers.
It would be nice for VX to make some comments like AS has to clarify some of these questions.
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