Originally Posted by
ptownca
My understanding and I have been following this closely:
All Elevate elites will be extended another year status. I did re-qualify for 2017 Gold, so I see an expiration date of 1/1/18.
Beginning today, AS will via various means match all Elevate elites like this: Silver > MVP ; Gold > MVP Gold.
https://www.alaskaair.com/elevatemember/activate allows you some options on creating or linking your AS to VX accounts.
Hope that helps.
I got matched from Elevate Gold to Alaska MVP Gold 75k, but I think I did have a little over 75k Elevate status points last year. So it is possible to match into AS's highest tier.