Way to Earn EQMs Without Flying
Dec 13, 2023, 12:16 pm
#46
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Yellow Springs
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Dec 13, 2023, 12:18 pm
#47
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAX/SFO
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Dec 13, 2023, 3:14 pm
#48
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I didn’t use this offer, but I qualified for 75k status with 73k BIS EQM and 2k EQM from credit card spend, and I most definitely received my 50k RDM.
Dec 15, 2023, 4:12 pm
#49
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: PDX, OGG or between the two
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 2,868
Aside from the promotion and CC spend it's possible to go over 75K, etc. and get all the perks with 500 min EQM on short routes and fare class bonuses.
Dec 26, 2023, 10:27 pm
#50
Join Date: Oct 2019
Programs: AS MVPG
Posts: 76
Mileage Run vs. Timing of SAF EQM Purchase
I put a couple hundred bucks into a "Sustainable Aviation Fuel" purchase in lieu of a butt-in-seat mileage run--has anyone here done this? The website it can take 2-4 weeks to post but I'm curious if anyone has personal experience. I'm relying on it to clear the 75k threshold for this year...
Dec 26, 2023, 10:36 pm
#51
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Boston's north shore
Programs: AS MVP Gold 75k, DL Silver Medallion
Posts: 298
I'm in the exactly same boat, and have been casually looking for an answer to the same question, so consider me watching your thread with the popcorn in hand now. 
My final flight of 2023 is in a couple of days, but I did bite the bullet and buy the carbon offset miles that I'll need to clear the same threshold you're at. I've been hoping they'd magically post immediately and show in my YTD progress , but it has been a few days for me and no updates visible on alaskaair.com.
My final flight of 2023 is in a couple of days, but I did bite the bullet and buy the carbon offset miles that I'll need to clear the same threshold you're at. I've been hoping they'd magically post immediately and show in my YTD progress , but it has been a few days for me and no updates visible on alaskaair.com.
Dec 27, 2023, 12:46 am
#52
Join Date: Aug 2022
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: Alaska Airlines
Posts: 128
I bought them a week ago from yesterday. They have not appeared. They are for getting to 75K as well.
I have 2024 flights starting 1/3/23…so was hoping they would post faster than the 2-4 weeks.
I called and tried to get PC seats assigned based on the fact I *technically* am a 75K now…agent didn’t even understand what I was saying and said there was “no option to buy EQM as far as she knows, those have to be earned by flying on Alaska Airlines operated flights only…”
Wrote in to customer care after that experience, we will see what will happen.
I have 2024 flights starting 1/3/23…so was hoping they would post faster than the 2-4 weeks.
I called and tried to get PC seats assigned based on the fact I *technically* am a 75K now…agent didn’t even understand what I was saying and said there was “no option to buy EQM as far as she knows, those have to be earned by flying on Alaska Airlines operated flights only…”
Wrote in to customer care after that experience, we will see what will happen.
Dec 27, 2023, 10:06 am
#55
Join Date: May 2013
Location: SEA
Programs: AS MVP Gold 100K
Posts: 2,030
I put a couple hundred bucks into a "Sustainable Aviation Fuel" purchase in lieu of a butt-in-seat mileage run--has anyone here done this? The website it can take 2-4 weeks to post but I'm curious if anyone has personal experience. I'm relying on it to clear the 75k threshold for this year...
Dec 27, 2023, 1:31 pm
#56
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: SEA
Programs: AS 75k, A3 Gold, AC 25k, IHG Plat
Posts: 1,044
OK so here is the deal. I took advantage of this program and it put me over the line for 100K. It took the SAF about three weeks to credit, BUT, if you read the terms of the SAF the credit goes to the year the SAF was purchased, not the year it posts. In other words if you buy on 12/31 you will still get EQM's for 2023. This was also confirmed by AS by another person in a related thread.
Dec 27, 2023, 3:10 pm
#57
Join Date: May 2013
Location: SEA
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Dec 27, 2023, 5:39 pm
#58
Join Date: Oct 2019
Programs: AS MVPG
Posts: 76
No, and it's making me wish I'd pulled the trigger on this purchase a few weeks earlier. But oh well.
Dec 27, 2023, 9:20 pm
#59
Join Date: May 2013
Location: SEA
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Dec 28, 2023, 2:38 pm
#60
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I know, first world problems. But they have no problems charging your credit card the same day, so I don’t quite understand why anyone should be satisfied with a “delivery” of the “goods” weeks later. Or should we assume that AS will only deliver the miles when they have grown the SAF?