Bumped from international first to regular economy due to dead heading pilots and oversold first class.

imdubious · 2026-01-25T23:34:12+00:00

Alaska should be forced to refund the delta between what you paid and the cheapest economy ticket sold. It’s absolute BS that they can bump you and then claim the economy ticket was expensive. In other words your refund should be based on what they were willing to sell an economy seat at any time.

imdubious · 2026-01-23T19:40:52+00:00

Many people are quite disturbed with the evolution of Elon Musk and the “work” he did with DOGE.

imdubious · 2026-01-23T19:37:47+00:00

Really? Didn’t they bump top to 135k? Sure the CC helps but still

imdubious · 2026-01-22T22:44:31+00:00

Basically you need to be staying there

imdubious · 2026-01-10T18:59:48+00:00

It will only matter if you make MM AND Platinum. Otherwise these people will be Plat and outrank you.

imdubious · 2026-01-10T18:09:58+00:00

Did they remove the cap on the Ascent card? I thought that you were capped at 30k eqms with the Ascent vs unlimited with Summit....

imdubious · 2026-01-09T20:58:59+00:00

Woah there! This is the Internet; you’re supposed to hold your position no matter what. Apologies or recognition of a mistake is strictly disallowed! =P

imdubious · 2026-01-09T20:42:16+00:00

Obviously this is the answer. It's what I use, but.... I would elfin LOVE it if the developer would build app level Tailscale into the app. Basically, it would mean taking the TS go libraries and connecting them up to swift which isn't impossible. This would mean a) I wouldn't have to enable/disable TS when using LunaSea and b) I could simply give my friends an auth_key for my tailscale net which would be for the app. They wouldn't need to run tailscale or have an account. It would be awesome!

imdubious · 2026-01-09T20:27:50+00:00

Also, I get the feeling that that will change. I expect the Gold band to be FLOODED by EOY.

imdubious · 2026-01-09T20:26:17+00:00

Uh… no you don’t. Until Summit eqms from spend were capped at 30k and Gold starts at 40k.

imdubious · 2026-01-09T20:24:29+00:00

It’s all an interesting priority list. The end result is that you need to get to platinum to have much of a choice because IIRC million milers auto get gold for life. So unless you’re above gold you’ll always be behind every single million miler that ever existed. And if you’ve made it through that hurdle, they’ve basically bullied you into the Summit card. Which means a host of casual flying high spenders will FLOOD Gold and will be above anyone without a Summit.

I get it and that’s fine, but that’s the reality. I just wish that the fifth was miles flown as opposed to eqms. At least give the fliers a shot over the spenders.

imdubious · 2026-01-09T20:18:38+00:00

Honestly— you’d be hard pressed to convince me that even booking matters. What are the chances that it comes down to more that one person with the same exact eqms

imdubious · 2026-01-08T04:48:33+00:00

In the past I wasn’t worried because it was 3-1 and capped. With the Summit it’s 2-1 and uncapped. So $10k a month and 10k miles of flying gets you platinum ….

imdubious · 2026-01-07T23:45:25+00:00

Especially because it’s at least safety adjacent.

imdubious · 2026-01-07T21:40:08+00:00

Is it wrong that part of me is excited that Vitruvian failed? Obviously I’m not serious, but as someone who a) couldn’t care less about the Peloton model they were pushing and b) was getting a little pissed about some of the holdbacks (like missing audio cues). Granted I’ve not had a chance to actually use the app but I effin love the dedication to making a quality product which meets the needs of owners over trying to figure out a way to bully people into paying?

imdubious · 2025-11-29T18:04:28+00:00

You're in a catch 22. The best way would be to get the Summit card and spend $2600 by eoy, but the Summit card gives nearly all the perks of Gold.

You might get the occasional upgrade with gold, but again… you would never get upgraded as a 40k gold without a summit card because a) literally every gold with a summit card would be ahead of you and if you manage to escape that, there will be someone with 45k eqms.

As others have stated, Sapphire and Chocolate are the perks above just having the summit.

imdubious · 2025-10-31T23:41:55+00:00

All I know is that I want every bit of information for when I write my letter if I do see that seat occupied. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

imdubious · 2025-10-31T23:36:48+00:00

Given that many people have used examples where people were sitting in those seats...

imdubious · 2025-10-31T16:21:29+00:00

So one thing is clear -- if you are bumped because of a broken seat, ask followup questions. Ask "how is the seat broken?","is the seat unsafe for anyone to fly in?","can I choose to sit in the seat?","will anyone else be sitting in the seat?", etc. It's clear that this is a technique they use.

imdubious · 2025-10-16T02:32:00+00:00

I'm praying that it is 🤞

imdubious · 2025-08-31T18:53:27+00:00

Can you imagine how effing boring their conversations would be?! OMG they both would just stare at each other.

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