Looking at the Alaska credit cards and trying to figure out if the Summit card really makes sense over the Ascent.
From what I can tell, Summit gives 25k points each year tied to companion tickets plus another 10k points on the account anniversary. Using a rough value of about 1.6 cents per point, that’s around $560 in points from $35k spend.
With the annual fee at $395, it looks like you’d come out ahead by about $165 just from the points, and that’s before even counting the lounge passes.
Trying to decide if the math actually works out in real life or if I’m missing something.