dgreen12

Stumbled onto the "A more rewarding Mileage Plan in 2024" webpage (scroll up to the top) and I don't recall seeing any discussion on this in other threads (apologies if it has already been posted):

• In 2024, status is based solely on EQMs (AS and its global partners.) No minimum number of AS flights is required.
• EQM bonus for AS credit card spend for all of 2024 - 4,000 EQMs for every $10k in spend (up to 20,000 EQMs in total)
• 100Ks have excess EQMs (over 100K) rollover towards requalifying in 2024
• Announced elite bonus mile changes for 2025:
  • MVP drops from 50% bonus to 25%
  • MVP Gold drops from 100% bonus to 50%
  • MVP Gold 75K drops from 125% bonus to 100%
  • No change to MVP Gold 100Ks (150% bonus)

If there were other changes, they slipped past me.

And I've just received an email on this topic.

anteater

An increased number of elites and a decrease in benefits – The enhanced Mileage Plan ™. 🤙🏻🍹

TalkingPoint

Big fan of not needing segments anymore. That’s great news. I remember all the heat I got wanting this change and pointing out basically no other domestic airline program requires anymore. Wish there wasn’t a cap to eqm earned via cc and imagine they’ll eventually remove or relax it.

atcanobbio

sorry, but as annoying the segment requirement was, I appreciated it because it meant that the generous status benefits were given to customers who actually fly Alaska, you know, it's core customers. Maybe they're doing it cuz of the HA merger. But I kinda hope the segment requirement comes back.

jrl767

speaking as one who has maintained DL PM through rollover for the last several years, this is nice to see < quickly checks to verify that Friday’s DCA-SEA is indeed on AA, so there will be 4000-some more EQMs rolling over >

TalkingPoint

I never understood this fear. What benefits are you afraid they are giving to those who aren't flying alaska? If anything it improve your odds of upgrades and quieter lounges as we go back to flying AA instead.

beckoa

Rollover eqm is nice. I may have had more eqm in 2023 had they announced that sooner. I'll still roll over 20K or so.

Devaluing the bonuses for everyone else is unfortunate. Especially Gold for MM'ers.

985X

Almost screamed when I saw "A more rewarding Mileage Plan in 2024"


That's what Delta said in their email when they announced major (mostly negative) changes to the program..

anhuang19

Excited for the rollover EQM, makes it so that there's a little more incentive to fly AS after requalifying for status.

I do wonder what kind of day of travel perks will be available for selection? Perhaps something similar to Hyatts guest of honor?

TalkingPoint

I wish they announced this sooner. I cancelled some AS tickets this week for other carriers.

This seems interesting. But kind of weird they're not announcing status accelerators until the end of the year when most people have already booked/planned most of their travel already.

missamo80

Gary Leff has a breakdown of all the changes plus comments from Mileage Plan execs. A few things I noticed:

* The mileage rollover is a one time thing, not a new benefit
* One of the 100k choice benefits will be miles that Alaska claims will restore what you would have earned under the old bonus %

lalala

whelp. with the 20K EQM for MM, I'll be at 100K by July. Thanks.

beyounged

And in the other thread, someone is arguing that AS is still very competitive even after chart devaluation since you earn miles faster. Well, they just slashed the EQM bonus in half for MVPG, which is probably the most popular tier? Now only true road warriors who are lucky enough to not be put in saver fares have a chance of redeeming AS miles for great trips on a semi-regular basis, given they can find availability in unicorn-land. Except those warriors would have to suffer through AS's subpar transcon planes, broken upgrade processor, very few lounge locations, "stellar" IT, and limited schedule.
Eliminating segment requirements sounds nice, but just reminds me of a few folks I have met in Asia who dump their qualifying flights into AS and got MVPG without even seeing an AS plane in their life. They may be a minority, but the floodgates of information will open once a cheap overseas "sale" is made available to the huge crowds, and there will be suddenly a wave of freshly minted MVP's who have never stepped onto an AS plane. It is just a matter of time.

RAD_PDX

*Sigh of relief*

This is not bad news at all.

felicidad76

I have 159000 rollover beyond 100000, so I am basically already qualified for 2025, it appears