Ryan Airhead

Hi friends,

I hope I'm not just acting blind or incompetent, but I was wondering: wasn't nominating someone else to regular MVP status upon reaching MVP 75k a benefit before?

I swear I thought I remember seeing it listed as an elite benefit on Alaska's website as recently as earlier this month. I just earned 75k status for 2024-25 this week (thanks 2xEQM!) and have been looking at the website the past week and have noticed that gifting MVP status is no longer listed. It's still partly mentioned in the notes as one of the 100k benefit choices is that you can gift MVP GOLD status to someone else, where if you had already chosen someone for MVP upon reaching 75K that person would automatically be the person receiving the new status. But the 75k nomination for MVP seems to be gone now. Did they remove that benefit, or am I just being a dummy (which is usually the case)?

Here is Alaska's website page where I thought I used to see it: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...rship-benefits

Ryan Airhead

And as another note, through Google I can still pull up the "Gold75K Nomination Form" to nominate someone else as a regular MVP. So it looks like the functionality may still exist but it's just not being marketed or linked to as a current benefit of reaching 75K. I'm hesitant to fill out the form and send anything, however, as a small part of my mind is wondering if this benefit removal has anything to do with upcoming changes to new milestone benefit choices that the program said they would announce later this year (in which case if they make it a choice between MVP nomination or something better I'll go with that instead; good luck to my travel companion in all her future endeavors )

beckoa

I nominated a family member earlier this year successfully as a MVPG100K.

mtnsider

As a 75K, I recently nominated someone to MVP. It took less than 2 weeks for it to take effect.

ASA_1

I nominated someone a few weeks ago without a problem.

notquiteaff

Hmm. I think I completely forgot about that benefit. Does AS send reminders out to newly qualified MVP75Ks?

navydevildoc

The link is on this page:

https://www.alaskaair.com/account/membership-benefits

vanillabean

Not Gold?

Dawgshouse

I realize it’s not clear but there is an interesting footnote 14 on the following page:

https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...nefits-section

¹⁴ If you select this benefit option, the individual you nominated for MVP status upon your MVP® Gold 75K qualification will be upgraded to MVP Gold until the end of the program year. If you didn't nominate anyone to MVP status after qualifying for MVP® Gold 75K, you can select an individual to nominate to MVP Gold. Gifted status will be effective within 2 weeks of selection. For members qualifying for 100K in the current calendar year, the end of the program year is December 31 of the following program year.

acarolena

Just want to see if I’m reading the fine print correctly. If you gift someone MVP Gold when you reach MVP Gold 75k, they will have gold status through the end of that calendar year. But if you gift someone MVP Gold when you reach MVP Gold 100k, they will have gold status through the end of the following calendar year. Does that sound right?

dayone

@acarolena Welcome to FlyerTalk.

Orwaid

Hi -

In the old days (when it was clearly listed on the benefits page), Upon reaching 75K, you could nominate someone to MVP. While that still appears to be active, it is not promoted. Upon reaching 100K, they do list nominating someone to Gold 40K as a choice benefit (although most people take either an additional 50,000 miles or the Lounge+ membership).