We've flown quite a bit this year, but much of it has been on points. Our one paid international flight on United Airlines with grandson Jake resulted from a crazy Business Class sale.
No, everybody who knows us knows we haven't been at all happy with post-merger UA, especially after the way they reduced the "lifetime" benefits to pre-merger Million Mile Flyers like us.
A few weeks ago we applied for a status match with Alaska Airlines, a well-regarded outfit that flies out of BLI 20 minutes down the highway from us.
They responded with a match to their very top tier, MVP® Gold 75K.
We've always been impressed when we've flown AS, but we're going to get a little more serious about it, starting with our flight to Las Vegas today.
We received complimentary upgrades overnight to First for the SEA-LAS leg (we're already confirmed in F on our return).
To roughly paraphrase Rick in Casablanca, we think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
It may be tough to fly 75K miles on AS, or 90K on a combination of AS and its partners in one year to requalify, but in the meantime we'll enjoy the ride at least through the end of 2015.
No, everybody who knows us knows we haven't been at all happy with post-merger UA, especially after the way they reduced the "lifetime" benefits to pre-merger Million Mile Flyers like us.
A few weeks ago we applied for a status match with Alaska Airlines, a well-regarded outfit that flies out of BLI 20 minutes down the highway from us.
They responded with a match to their very top tier, MVP® Gold 75K.
We've always been impressed when we've flown AS, but we're going to get a little more serious about it, starting with our flight to Las Vegas today.
We received complimentary upgrades overnight to First for the SEA-LAS leg (we're already confirmed in F on our return).
To roughly paraphrase Rick in Casablanca, we think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
It may be tough to fly 75K miles on AS, or 90K on a combination of AS and its partners in one year to requalify, but in the meantime we'll enjoy the ride at least through the end of 2015.
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