06-04-2024, 06:42 PM
I can't speak for the other airlines, but with Alaska you have to requalify for their MVP programs every year unless you make it to their million mile club or whatever its called.
I remember one year, I flew over 100 segments with them. They sent me a box of cookies with fancy gift wrap for Christmas. Eventually my job changed, and I didn't have to travel all the time (thank God) and POOF! All the benefits expired after the following year.
So I've been consuming a dwindling pile of miles since. At first I would travel first class with them, but as they got consumed it was clear they weren't going to last forever. So now if I go to the madland, I travel first class on the way there, and back with the cattle on the way back. I got maybe one of those left and then it will be moo! MOO! both directions until those are gone and I have to start paying out of pocket. Fortunately I don't travel much. At one point I gifted a bunch of miles so family members could visit. Those days are over.
I knew a guy who paid for first class, but only if it worked out to where it cost $50/hour or less over the bovine rate. That was the figure that he had calculated out that made it "worth it".
I remember one year, I flew over 100 segments with them. They sent me a box of cookies with fancy gift wrap for Christmas. Eventually my job changed, and I didn't have to travel all the time (thank God) and POOF! All the benefits expired after the following year.
So I've been consuming a dwindling pile of miles since. At first I would travel first class with them, but as they got consumed it was clear they weren't going to last forever. So now if I go to the madland, I travel first class on the way there, and back with the cattle on the way back. I got maybe one of those left and then it will be moo! MOO! both directions until those are gone and I have to start paying out of pocket. Fortunately I don't travel much. At one point I gifted a bunch of miles so family members could visit. Those days are over.
I knew a guy who paid for first class, but only if it worked out to where it cost $50/hour or less over the bovine rate. That was the figure that he had calculated out that made it "worth it".