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Old Sep 9, 2025 | 5:02 pm
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volklboy
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Originally Posted by beckoa
Alaska, please reconsider terminating the 500 mile minimum.

Most flights within Alaska are not exactly the cheapest, and a lot of them run under 500 miles. The same can be true for Hawaii.

Currently one earns the following on AS, HA and it's partners:



There is a proposal to force us to choose; either 500 miles per flight or seemingly just the distance flown. 261 miles ANC-FAI; or 41 miles GST-JNU. But if one chooses 500 miles per flight and flies ANC-SEA at 1448 or ANC-HNL for 2777; those earn 500 miles too? Why not let us keep the earning program we've had for decades?

Thanks for listening.
GEG regular concurs.
The process of buying a taking a flight seems worth the 500 points it has always been worth.
Real sting is million miler. Those miles are earned hard with no bonuses -- 500 minimum is not a bonus considering the passenger process of buying/flying.
Presumably the million miler will tick up at the real mileage for those who select earn by money.
My expensive short hops will earn good status points, but now won't even be worth the MM march, souring my loyalty at 837k.
Quizzical decision Chester -- I'm with Beckoa.
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