HUGE Updates to Alaska Airlines Status | Hyatt Status Scam

To me Marriott Titanium is worth the additional bonus point earnings and the MileagePlus Silver (and now Aeroplan 25K) status. It's from Titanium to Ambassador that I'm not seeing the value, since I rarely have requests and requirements that are unique for my stay and above the authority of the front desk.

Sebby, you know what you did. Correct it. 🐮🐮🐮 (🐻)

I have a ton of AA miles. What is the best way to use them to fly on Alaska? 🐻🐻🐻

Interesting Delta "upside" clip

informative as always. love your content 🐻🐻‍❄🧸

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I cashed in some Chase points recently to United to book a free trip to Vegas with the fam.

I think that I’m moving to United from Delta. Alaska is almost non- existent in Denver. Delta points really are pesos and can be hard to use. United (while not as comfortable in flight as Delta) gives me actual free flights. Hard to argue with that.

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🐻I started switching to Alaska before the Hawaiian acquisition was announced. Meant to be a 2ndary airline to Delta, they will likely become our primary.

Seems like United silver status is the best perk of Marriott titanium, and then the United club offers most of those benefits

🐻 thoughts on putting 500k into virgin preemptively 🤣

Award flights counting for elite status is great! I always hated that at least hotels count your award nights but airlines don’t count award flights

Are GoH awards or SUAs on eBay legit? Is that breaking rules? 🐻

🐻I am saving my chase points for when Flying Blue has a transfer bonus. Virgin fees are too high so I will book my flights through Flying blue. I have Aalaska MVP Gold status and I thinks it’s the best airline loyalty program. I had Marriott Titanium Status before and the Silver status with United was very useful. Marriott Platinum status is a hit or miss. Some hotel honor your Status in the US but I think it’s more valuable outside the US. That’s when you see the real Value. I am a Globalist at Hyatt which I got Organically. I don’t think people should be able to buy their Hyatt status but if the Hotel was offering it then it’s not the members fault. Hyatt should restore those members accounts and hold the hotels accountable.

This could make Alaska status earning more useful than AA status if the main interest in AA status was flying Alaska now that they’ve also added EQM earning for dining and shopping

Agree on Alaska Airlines miles are worth more, and it is easier than other US airlines to earn status. My concern is that if Alaska Airlines hurdle to status is lower, then it has higher chances of too many of their customers with status. Hence, it will have to restructure in a way that it will be harder to earn status in the future (same as with other major Airlines that already did). Perhaps that is the end goal.

Online chatter says the dynamic thing is only for virgin metal.

As far as I know, most of the Urcove property owners and hotel managers were involved in this incident.

thanks again sebby!!! i get AA ep status just with business spend each year. any aadvantage to trying for alaska status?....if i could ask one more thing....i would like to have elevated status with one airline in each of the three airline alliances. i have oneworld covered with AA and BA.....your recommendations for an airline in each of the other two alliances?....i dont particularly spend a lot on other airlines, but if status was worth it, i could direct spend that direction. thx again

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🐻 Thanks Sebby

🐻 Nice video. Would love to enter and win the contest! 🎉

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1) going to Thailand this upcoming summer. Got HR & PH Bangkok in the books along with Andaz Pattaya and HR Koh Samui & Phuket!

I want this card!

usually in remedy cases the purpose of the trail is to make the plaintiff whole again .

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Is the horse lady for the algorithm?

Delta wants 800k miles for Delta One Star business. Worth less than failed crypto.

🐻 I pounced on the CIP to get the 120,000 points with the explicit goal of transferring the whole bunch to Hyatt but your mention of transfer bonuses will make me do the math.

Darn you Sebby for mentioning such great transfer opportunities and providing such value 😀😀

I do think Hyatt did the right thing by canceling the accounts. So much cheating is simply disregarded these days. It is all fun and games until it is about points and nights, then it gets real.

🐻favorite Tokyo hotel?

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Kind of sad because it’s the hotel is offering this Hyatt status for a fee. How does the customer know it’s fake?

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Would love to win the Hyatt Guest of Honor! Going on my Honeymoon at the Park Hyatt St Kitts in February.

🐻 Cal Bears...woo!🎉 at this time im not traveling a ton so chasing elite status is not high on my radar...as to my chase points they are def going to be redeemed for air travel as i have a pretty nifty Marriott hook up as the family member of a Marriott employee and my points are better spent elsewhere...as to the Hyatt situation...sounds like those folks that "bought" Titanium status def got scammed by the hotel and its not really their fault. For Hyatt to completely shut them down seems a bit extreme. Perhaps a more customer oriented solution would have been to advise them that they got scammed, inform them that their status has been downgrades to whatever it was previously and then get them their money back from the individual hotel owners. Im a big fan of good customer service and Hyatt's reaction seems like they are blaming the victims in this case.
Thanks for all the great content! Keep up the great work!
Maybe a future video on the lesser known Escape Lounges? Since they are now partnered with Priority Pass and thats our only option over here at Oakland😊

Might be a stupid question but how about reward flights redeemed with partner airlines (such as Iberia) and credited to Alaska (if this is evven possible)? Would this earn Alaska miles and MQM? 🐻

🐻 hit AA executive platinum via status match and then did Hyatt exploring status match 1 night from locking both in tile Feb 2026

I can’t find the bear emoji 😂but really interesting news about Alaska. It’s looking more and more promising. I normally use my points for Hyatt stays and more recently have done a few business class flights on SQ and United to Japan, Bali and Singapore. I agree with Sebby on the hotel issue. I wouldn’t normally assume that a hotel is doing anything shady with the rewards program. Would love to win the GOH award as I’m a mere mortal with no status, but am pretty loyal to the brand and have a stay at the Park Hyatt Paris coming up in November based on Mandy and Sebby’s review!

Can you do a video on earning Alaskan status? 🐻

I got a lot of cool stuff planned for my trip to Japan later this year but my stay at the Park Hyatt Kyoto is near the top of the list. I’m hyped.

I have the delta reserve and I like it but I’m not renewing it. Alaska airlines looks amazing. Just wish they flew in Florida

Booked our first trip to Paris France next year staying at park Hyatt Paris vendome using points after watching your review of the hotel. Would be so grateful if picked as guest of honor which will make our trip a lifelong memory. Thank you!

🐻 Not sure I'll go for the Alaska elite status, but the Hyatt cancellations are horrible. Franchisees can promote loopholes to clients, but then the clients get banned. Oy! That's a black eye for the brand no matter how you look at it.🐶

I'm likely going to enjoy my Delta status through 2025 but will run with Alaska status for 2026.

We stayed at Hyatt Regency Waikiki was very disappointing.
Service,room, homeless yelling at worlds out side hotel by sidewalk we afraid to go beach because we don't want to step on needles that they might used for drugs . Don't give me wrong I am feeling sympathy for homeless but it becomes problems that Hawaii need to address this issue to protect tourists and stay cation local .
Hyaat in my opinion was not higher standards than Hilton.
We stayed in at Hilton 4 different countries so far none of them disappoint us

🐻 Don’t forget that Alaska has acquired Hawaiian so for Alaska elites who travel internationally, they will be getting massive ease of use to Asia and the South Pacific.