Originally Posted by
diver858
What is the price of those 3-4 TATL trips? With $1 = 5 points and COS bonus, my math suggests that 4x $3200 J tickets will earn Platinum - less when using an Atmos credit card to purchase the ticket.
There is no COS on revenue earning, just 5 SPs per dollar spent on fare paid less fees & taxes. When booking with a partner, fare isn't known, so earnings will be a percentage of base miles flown.
Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
My understanding:
The three earnings choices will apply to travel booked via Alaska. The table cited above is for travel booked on airline partner sites (and presumably OTAs etc. that are ticketed by airline partners).
So one of the things people have seen as problematic (to put it diplomatically) is that a international J flight booked on AS.com will earn 100% flight distance with the distance based earnings choice, and a flight on the same route booked with the partner will earn 250% in J
We don't know that. Nowhere does AS say that both revenue and distance earnings will have elevated earnings on partner domestic or international J/F.
James