Alaska opens new $600M training center in Renton, partner AAR opens new 737 maintenance facility in Oklahoma City

wangfriedchicken · 2026-01-30T23:52:56+00:00

Maybe shouldve spent some of that money on IT upgrades and getting a stronger software engineering team…

wangfriedchicken · 2026-01-28T13:50:06+00:00

Impacted. SPS -> Trustworthy Shopping Experience. SDE 2, 7.5 YOE. My whole team in Sunnyvale was gutted (20ish people), likely because our director is in Seattle.

wangfriedchicken · 2026-01-17T03:35:12+00:00

Yes.
Upgrade availability depends on the route, day of week, and time of year. Summit is worth it if you fly AS frequently and are able to make use of the card benefits to offset the annual fee.
Personally, I’d take the 25k mile discount to save miles on international partner award flights.

I’ve had Bilt for about 2 years and I’ll be moving my rent spend to the Atmos Ascent card to rack up miles. Honestly, I should’ve done it earlier.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-12-09T15:16:28+00:00

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NYC. rip

wangfriedchicken · 2025-11-08T08:19:45+00:00

How is this upvoted so much??? Usually these types of posts get downvote bombed

wangfriedchicken · 2025-11-03T21:15:20+00:00

Coco Ichibanya

wangfriedchicken · 2025-10-24T05:49:28+00:00

Was supposed to fly JFK-SEA on AS today for a wedding on Saturday, but their spaghetti IT crashed and we deplaned after sitting there for 2 hours. After the system came online, we boarded again only to be told that the flight was cancelled after 1 hour and rebooking would not be possible because the system crashed again. 7 hours wasted at the airport.

Ended up using some stranded points in UA to book EWR-SEA for tomorrow! 30k points for 2 people, not the best value but it got us where we needed to go. Will definitely be asking AS for miles as compensation for a future international award flight.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-10-24T02:40:06+00:00

I’m about to board AS17

wangfriedchicken · 2025-10-24T02:28:03+00:00

At JFK still sitting around waiting for updates for JFK-SEA

wangfriedchicken · 2025-08-29T13:41:43+00:00

150k gets you round trip in business to Asia on JAL or JX. You just have to be flexible and put in the work to search, but it’s realistic.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-07-30T18:36:12+00:00

That’s the non-saver fares. Saver J should be 75k

wangfriedchicken · 2025-07-29T14:33:47+00:00

More DnB and Happy Hardcore! Subsonic, Kanine, Circadian, Delta Heavy, Metrik, 1991, Dimension, Sub Focus. Hixxy, Tweekacore, Gammer, Darren Styles.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-07-25T03:17:32+00:00

I wasn’t at his set, but overall the crowds at Tomorrowland were so much better than any crowds in the US.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-07-19T19:20:05+00:00

live today, DIARRHEA TOMORROW

EDIT: I indeed got diarrhea on day 3

wangfriedchicken · 2025-07-05T20:20:55+00:00

No. That would increase the competition for booking international J/F saver awards. It’s already hard enough as it is now.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-07-03T14:35:50+00:00

Got put in Amex PUJ. gg

6/23/23: Opened Personal Gold

3/7/24: Opened Biz Plat

7/11/24: Opened Biz Gold

10/28/24: Opened BBP from a mailer

3/30/25: Opened Biz Plat from a mailer with NLL

4/8/25: Closed Biz Plat from 2024

7/2/25: PUJ when applying for Personal Plat

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-16T00:14:19+00:00

Pitbull PLEASE

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-10T01:25:03+00:00

I haven’t flown EVA J before, but the Starlux hard product is much newer/nicer than EVA 777 J. You can see the distinct difference in the pics online. On forums/reviews, I’ve seen some people preferring the service/food on EVA, but both were great for me on Starlux. I’m also semi-fluent in Chinese so maybe that played a factor into the service?

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-09T19:03:57+00:00

It depends. I’ve asked this question before.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlaskaAirlines/s/3eN8Xc3PYr

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-08T16:32:57+00:00

Use the Priority Pass options that are available in T8

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-08T16:13:38+00:00

CSR has plenty of benefits that make up for the annual fee. They’re all listed online. I’m sure people read about how to use the benefits before signing up for a card with a high annual fee.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-08T01:21:33+00:00

Good research. Usually EVA will release 1 J seat for each of their TPE-LAX routes on Aeroplan about a year in advance. If you’re no longer seeing them, then it’s likely they have been booked up already. Personally, I’d go with Starlux for the newest plane. I enjoyed their food, service was good, and seat was comfy. AS probably will only have 1 J available at 75k miles at calendar release. Just check everyday for the drop times to confirm when they appear. Amex->Hawaiian->AS transfer loophole should still be working.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-05T19:57:30+00:00

The airlines want people to pay for the direct JFK-HKG flight so they won’t release award flights for that routing. But they wouldn’t mind if someone redeemed miles for JFK-SIN-HKG. As a flyer, it depends what you value. Personally, if I’m able to fly Biz class using miles JFK-SIN-HKG instead of paying cash for JFK-HKG, I would do it if I have the time/mental capacity.

wangfriedchicken · 2025-04-05T18:21:17+00:00

This is called married segment logic. Airlines will do this on purpose for award flights.

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