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Flying for Fun
Not now, but there will be when the choice-earn is implemented. Setting aside the Atmos Credit Card Family for a moment, if you choose to earn by segments, you will be required to fly 40 sgements for Silver, 80 for Gold, 160 for Platinum, and 270 for Titanium. Each earns a flat 500 SPs, so 20K, 40K, 80K, and 135K SP equivalent.
For Summit credit card holders, the 10K SPs granted on the anniversay is equivalent to 10K/500 = 20 segments. That reduces your segment requirement to 20, 60, 140 & 250 respectively.
Today, it was announced that HI Inter-Island flyers (Is that all members or just HI domiciled?) would earn 50% Bonus SPs. So, yes, a one-way HNL-OGG flight for a segment flyer would earn 1 segment and 750 SPs, essentially 1.5 segments. A similar return flight would earn 3 segments on 1500 SPs, a 3:2 ratio.
Via Credit Card spend, $1K on the Summit or $1.5K on the Ascent and Business cards generates 500 SPs = 1 segment. Via non-airline Points earned, each 3K Points = 1K SPs = 2 segments. For awards, each segment flown is 1 segment, regardless of distance flown. Each 10K SP "rollover," starting at 95K SPs in 2026 (190 segment equivalent) will reduce your segment requirement by 20 in the subsequent year.
James
I know, but I don’t think Alaska is going to track segments. They are simply giving you a flat 500 SP for each takeoff and landing. This is different from the segment-based qualification that Alaska and many other carriers used to have where you could qualify by the number of segments as an alternative to qualifying by reaching a certain number of EQMs. Given that we are now having a program where status points are the only thing that matters and where many fliers will have a mix of SP from different sources, I think it is confusing to talk about segment requirements etc. And yes, I know AS started this.