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Welcome to Freakimilar's Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back.

On today's coffee break, Alaska's intriguing premium rewards card. Alaska is out with a new

premium card, which is conveniently named the Atmost Rewards Summit visa infinite card. It just flows off your

tongue. And we're going to dive into what this card is all about, what we like and dislike about it,

and whether or not Nick and I are sort of buyers for this card. Are we going to get it and keep it

ourselves? Will we ascend to the summit? That is the question. So let's just go over

some of the quote unquote basics. There's a lot of basics on this card for the basic parts and

pieces that you need to know about. For starters, it has a $395 annual fee, so that makes it premium,

maybe not quite ultra premium in today's really high annual fee environment,

but certainly more than a typical airline credit card.

The welcome bonus is pretty generous, 100,000 points and a 25K companion certificate

after you spend $6,000 in the first 90 days.

If you signed up for the waiting list when they offered that back in, I think, December-ish,

then you get an additional 5,000 points if you apply through the link that you got in your email.

So that's pretty good.

The 25K companion certificate will talk about more later.

It's a discount, essentially, on an award for a companion. So again, we'll discuss that

a little bit more, but it's a pretty good deal probably. Let's talk about point earning. It earns

three points per dollar on Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines, of course, three X on dining, three X on

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