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Today's coffee break, Alaska's fascinating premium card.

Alaska has announced that a premium card is coming in the summer of 2025, and they've just sprinkled like some bits of information about what's coming and and I find it really intriguing.

So we're going to talk about the details of that and, you know, maybe discuss a little bit.

Is this exciting or not?

Yeah, I think they've done a good job of sprinkling out some details that would create some

speculation and conversation because certainly there are aspects of it that

sound quite interesting. So let's go over some of the basic stuff. First of all, if you haven't done

it yet, you want to pre-register to be able to apply for the card, so to speak, you want to

pre-register to get information about it by December 31st. And the reason for that is you're going

to get 500 Alaska miles now

for joining the list. And you don't have to apply for it. You're not obligating yourself. You're just

joining the email list, essentially. So it's 500 free and easy miles. So you probably want to do

that whether you think you want the card or not. And then if you do decide that you want the card,

if you've registered by December 31st, then you're going to get 5,000 extra miles later on when

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