Originally Posted by
The Narwhal
This would certainly make accruing EQM (or whatever they are called now) much more difficult, even for big spenders. It's interesting that they are increasing the miles needed for the upper status tiers at the same time they are making it harder to accrue miles. I can only guess the intent is to drive spend on the credit cards to top off mileage, but it certainly dissuades actual flying on AS. I know all the money is in rewards programs these days and not flying, but this still seems surprising if this is what they end up actually doing.
maybe it dissuades actual flying but it doesnt seem hard to get eqp and status if you start with 60-70k as posted above mentioned and then earn 1 eqp per $2 on cc and get some more from award flights...
Originally Posted by
1worldFlyer
All of that looks right. Plus you can get the Atmos Rewards Summit card and get another 10K EQPs credited on your card anniversary next year. That'll bring you to 70K EQPs without flying a mile or spending a cent
i am curious if going forward milestones will be awarded without counting upfront bonuses (or milestone levels will go up significantly) - collecting everything through 85k just from head start and some cc spending seems nuts...