View Poll Results: Which 100K Choice Benefit Would You Choose?
50,000 Bonus Miles
5
41.67%
Alaska Lounge+ Membership for 2023
2
16.67%
Gifting MVP Gold Status
4
33.33%
Complimentary Wi-Fi for a Year
1
8.33%
CLEAR Plus Membership
0
0%
Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll
100K Choice Benefit
Oct 7, 22, 3:29 pm
#31
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Pacific Northwest
Programs: UA 1MM, AS MVPG, Bonvoyed Gold, Honors Dia, Hyatt Explorer, IHG Plat, ...
Posts: 15,020
LOL, I am sitting at 14k EQM below MVP and they are emailing me about what I get if I reach 100k before the end of the year. Fat chance.
Now if they could please post my EQMs from my Condor flight back in May, I might actually make it to MVP this year.
Admittedly the choices are nice and I would probably pick the 50k RDM.
Now if they could please post my EQMs from my Condor flight back in May, I might actually make it to MVP this year.
Admittedly the choices are nice and I would probably pick the 50k RDM.
Oct 7, 22, 3:37 pm
#32
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: SEA & LMT
Programs: AS100K, AS Lounge+, Marriott Plat, SBUXG, GE, Costco Exec, Amazon Prime, Nat Parks Yearly Pass
Posts: 269
No 100K luggage tag option???
Let me get this right: The 50% EQMs for Cali and PAE flights do not count toward qualifying for 100K, but do qualify for lower tiers? What about the 10K EQMs granted to me for the shenanigan cancellations last spring? Do those count as "status gifts" and not apply to 100K qualification?
Let me get this right: The 50% EQMs for Cali and PAE flights do not count toward qualifying for 100K, but do qualify for lower tiers? What about the 10K EQMs granted to me for the shenanigan cancellations last spring? Do those count as "status gifts" and not apply to 100K qualification?
Oct 7, 22, 4:39 pm
#33
Join Date: Jun 2021
Programs: AS 100K
Posts: 271
Let me get this right: The 50% EQMs for Cali and PAE flights do not count toward qualifying for 100K, but do qualify for lower tiers? What about the 10K EQMs granted to me for the shenanigan cancellations last spring? Do those count as "status gifts" and not apply to 100K qualification?
Oct 7, 22, 5:06 pm
#34
Moderator: United MileagePlus
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Clinging to the edifices of a decadent past from the biggest city in America nobody really cares about.
Programs: (ಠ_ಠ)
Posts: 9,077
(That is to say I read promo as comped/challenge status, or status otherwise not earned organically; when COVID first hit I knocked out 75k EQMs in the 2021 period where AS counted them again in 2022, got the 50k RDM grant both in 2021 and 2022 when 75k EQMs promod my account in 2022.)
Besides manually tracking is there any way to see real EQMs vs faux EQMs?
Oct 7, 22, 5:14 pm
#35
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Seattle
Programs: Alaska airlines 100k
Posts: 874
Will take AS+ lounge if spouse doesnt easily reach MVPG organically this year. However this option of gifting to MVPG option will be selected going forward and thus not have to have them travel with me on 2-3 extra flights that are not necessarily mileage runs but incentivized to accompany me on business trips.
Oct 7, 22, 5:21 pm
#36
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 12,037
Current 75K on track to make my normal MVPG before the end of the year and I got the email. No chance I'll make 100K unless some really strange work travel comes up. I'd lean toward the Lounge+, as I have a ton of miles that are relatively underused.
Oct 7, 22, 5:46 pm
#37
Join Date: Jun 2021
Programs: AS 100K
Posts: 271
I see the promo exclusion in the TCs but would have assumed the 50% EQMs for CA would have counted.
(That is to say I read promo as comped/challenge status, or status otherwise not earned organically; when COVID first hit I knocked out 75k EQMs in the 2021 period where AS counted them again in 2022, got the 50k RDM grant both in 2021 and 2022 when 75k EQMs promod my account in 2022.)
Besides manually tracking is there any way to see real EQMs vs faux EQMs?
(That is to say I read promo as comped/challenge status, or status otherwise not earned organically; when COVID first hit I knocked out 75k EQMs in the 2021 period where AS counted them again in 2022, got the 50k RDM grant both in 2021 and 2022 when 75k EQMs promod my account in 2022.)
Besides manually tracking is there any way to see real EQMs vs faux EQMs?
Oct 7, 22, 6:17 pm
#39
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Seattle
Programs: Alaska airlines 100k
Posts: 874
Oct 7, 22, 7:21 pm
#40
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Portland, OR
Programs: Alaska Gold 100k
Posts: 931
I’m surprised by the poll results. I will be down to 75k this year, but don’t see these benefits are worth mileage runs. But in the poll, the one I see has the best benefit is gold status. That way when traveling with family or guests you can book two PNRs and get a total of 4 people upgraded. My travel is 75% business related so can write off the lounge and WiFi, and the last thing I need now with over 3mm in the bank is another 50k. I’m one of those who if I stop spending and start using miles I won’t qualify for Gold or 75 the next year, which negates the benefits. I’d LOVE to see Alaska do as Delta now does and allow EQM earnings on mileage trips.
Oct 7, 22, 8:43 pm
#41
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Pacific Northwest
Programs: UA 1MM, AS MVPG, Bonvoyed Gold, Honors Dia, Hyatt Explorer, IHG Plat, ...
Posts: 15,020
Im surprised by the poll results. I will be down to 75k this year, but dont see these benefits are worth mileage runs. But in the poll, the one I see has the best benefit is gold status. That way when traveling with family or guests you can book two PNRs and get a total of 4 people upgraded. My travel is 75% business related so can write off the lounge and WiFi, and the last thing I need now with over 3mm in the bank is another 50k.
If I had three million miles in the bank, I would just buy F awards tickets for my family and not worry about getting upgrades for them. Those miles aren't getting any more valuable while cash can easily earn 4% these days
Oct 7, 22, 9:42 pm
#42
Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: SFO
Programs: AS MVP Gold 100k, UA Silver, AC P25k, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond
Posts: 678
50K is what it is for me.....
Wifi - maybe 250 dollars if i spent 8 dollars for every single flight - which i dont for CA hops.
MVPG - people usually fly with me and get my benefits as companions
AL+ - i added up all the times i go .....lounge passes may be cheaper in the end.....less than 500....i dont fly through AA lounges much and the ones i have done have ben jam packed and i just left anyway......
Ill take the miles - but if my travel turns to more commuting - ill just pay for the lounge membership at that time.....mine expires this month...im just gonna use up my passes in my acct until increase in commutting or the new year.....
Wifi - maybe 250 dollars if i spent 8 dollars for every single flight - which i dont for CA hops.
MVPG - people usually fly with me and get my benefits as companions
AL+ - i added up all the times i go .....lounge passes may be cheaper in the end.....less than 500....i dont fly through AA lounges much and the ones i have done have ben jam packed and i just left anyway......
Ill take the miles - but if my travel turns to more commuting - ill just pay for the lounge membership at that time.....mine expires this month...im just gonna use up my passes in my acct until increase in commutting or the new year.....
Oct 7, 22, 10:22 pm
#43
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 56
Made 100k on June 28th of this year and this was the first email communication Ive received regarding my new status. I think they are behind for some reason. As long as your app shows you as 100k, youre okay.(By the way benefit isnt able to be chosen until January, per the email).
Oct 8, 22, 12:43 am
#44
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: San Francisco
Programs: UA 1K/AS 100K …Bonvoy Titanium..Hertz Presidents Club
Posts: 1,061
Nice. My AS+ lounge pass just expired but I have 4 lounge passes to hold me over. I like to think Alaska was monitoring the 100K for 2023_ Want, Wishes, Dreams thread.
Oct 8, 22, 12:47 am
#45
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: On a plane or a beach
Programs: Yes
Posts: 2,969
Originally Posted by minhaoxue;[url=tel:34664050
34664050]Nice. My AS+ lounge pass just expired but I have 4 lounge passes to hold me over. I like to think Alaska was monitoring the 100K for 2023_ Want, Wishes, Dreams thread.
Originally Posted by anteater
AS is aware of this thread . 🤙🏻🍹
