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Old Oct 28, 2012, 11:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Milhous Gloriosus
I just hit 50,000 mqms, but the Delta site is still showing me as silver, but has "future status" as gold medallion. I'm confused. I thought status was awarded as soon as the mqm threshold was reflected on DAL's site. What am I missing? I have a lot of travel in the next month and hoped to be recognized as a gold.
It's a two stop process. First the miles must post, in this case to reach 50,000 MQMs. Then status is bumped up when DL's system does a sweep, probably within a day or so after the miles post. Be patient.
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