I'm one last YOW-YVR away from SE, but also my Level Up is just about to post, and I *still* don't know if earning both together is about to give me considerably less benefit than it did last year.
- I gifted 50K last year as an SE benefit, and if I requal this year it'll roll over.
- If I hit SE organically AND Level Up, I should theoretically get 50K to gift for 2026.
- hitting SE in 2025 *should* have given me the ability to gift 50K as a Select Benefit, but in 2026 this will no longer be true.
Am I about to earn gift-able 50K three or four times over, and only get it once?
I considered just crediting my remaining flying to another program, so as to get SE from the Level Up and also roll over ~20,000 SQM above 75K, but for how badly the rollover has been nerfed, plus the fact that I'd then get *zero* giftable 50K and my nominee would lose status, and there's no knowing how far into 2026 it would take for Level Up to kick me back up to SE....
This is fun. I'm having fun.