Originally Posted by
TalkingPoint
I don’t think this affects how I now use Atmos. I no longer fly them revenue at all nor do I credit to them. I will earn status via premium cabin partner award flights (sometimes AS between home and partner hub) of which I have well over 135k BIS miles flown on. I will also qualify on foreign spend alone via the new Summit card. These negative changes mostly affect customers who actually fly and book/credit revenue tickets to Alaska.
Ah, the genius of the program: still works well if you just don't fly the airline! It's only the people who actually buy tickets from AS who get hurt.