Membership Rewards 50% bonus and 25K DL MQM for 50K MR Transfer
#91
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Question for you Delta Gurus -
I currently have 33k Delta miles, but I don't fly Delta and have no status. These miles have slowly accumulated from Northwest tickets when they were significantly cheaper than anyone else. I'm an AA flyer (plat if it matters). I have 50k MR points; is pushing me over the 100k threshold make it worth it? I only know about availability etc from hearing other people's (negative) opinions on Delta's product. I'm not sure if the blackout dates etc make this not worth it for someone who doesn't know how they would use the miles.
Basically - whats your take on this based on no status, but would push me over 100k miles. I primarily fly overseas late spring/early summer and late summer/early fall if that affects anything.
Thanks!
I currently have 33k Delta miles, but I don't fly Delta and have no status. These miles have slowly accumulated from Northwest tickets when they were significantly cheaper than anyone else. I'm an AA flyer (plat if it matters). I have 50k MR points; is pushing me over the 100k threshold make it worth it? I only know about availability etc from hearing other people's (negative) opinions on Delta's product. I'm not sure if the blackout dates etc make this not worth it for someone who doesn't know how they would use the miles.
Basically - whats your take on this based on no status, but would push me over 100k miles. I primarily fly overseas late spring/early summer and late summer/early fall if that affects anything.
Thanks!
If you are willing to put effort into it, I could see transferring 45K miles to get 67,500 RDM's (added to your 33K gives over 100K). If you don't fly DL anyway, FO status is worthless for one J award. So why transfer the other 5K?
Just some thoughts.
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That being said the question asked was how long does the status last if granted in January as opposed to December, which your response was of worthless value to. Next time just read and keep it moving if you can't contribute anything positive.
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Thanks OP- I owe you a few beers at the SC! I was not targeted and signed up through the OPs link. I received the transfer amount amount last night- just over 50k MRewards to SM. The bonus RDMs and MQMs showed up this afternoon. The MQM bonus showed up as 50000 in the account activity part but the correct amount, 25000, in the top of the page annual MQM total. I am now a GM for the first time since 2000 and will gladly use it on my BNA-SFO MRun on the 11th. I have PM in my sights for the first time.
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Found right on delta.com
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For <$3K you can easily get 75K MQM with various cheap fares, fare mistakes, double MQM promotions, etc. Do that in Jan or Feb and you have PM for two years, at an average of <$1,500/year. So why give DL $1,500 cash for GM (even if they offered that option!) when you can give them that much for PM and RDM's and have the fun of multiple MR's.
Show me how, please. thanks
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One example - wait for cheap coast-to-coast fares. Just looked and saw a $200 PHL-SEA all-in fare in MR forum. Figure min 4,800 miles RT (say 5K to make the math easy). That was UA but if you are looking months in advance, you can find something similar with DL.
5K miles for $200
or
50K miles for $2,000
or
75K miles for $3,000
So for 15 round trips, you get PM status for two years if you do that early in the year. Time it right with red eyes from west coast to east coast and you can do that in 7-8 days. You might need to spend another couple hundred to get into position, or just "miss" the last leg if you transit MSP. Or if the $200 fare mentioned above ends up being $150, even with the positioning flight you would be well under $3K
Wanaflyforless did something like this with AA several years ago (he actually earned 100K EQM). I did a DXB-YYZ MR x 3 a couple of years ago in J that didn't cost too much more than $3K and earned me 75K EQM and 150K RDM (not including the choice benefit). Since I did it in January, PM status was basically for more than two years (through Feb 2 years later).
Definitely possible if you put your mind to it.
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Wanaflyforless did something like this with AA several years ago (he actually earned 100K EQM). I did a DXB-YYZ MR x 3 a couple of years ago in J that didn't cost too much more than $3K and earned me 75K EQM and 150K RDM (not including the choice benefit). Since I did it in January, PM status was basically for more than two years (through Feb 2 years later).
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There is a thread in the MilesBuzz area that deals with $1 coin purchases from the US Mint at no cost.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...-shipping.html
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My feat paled in comparison to some of the stories I heard at the Chicago Seminar DO. And being in J, it was less of a marathon than it could have been! But I would definitely consider something like that again if the timing and price were right.
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I've flown gold-level BIS this year already, just not all of it was paid (darn that provision!).
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It's funny to me that so many folks in this thread have scoffed at the idea of boosting status via a partner promo, but they think nothing of a one-day, 6-city mileage run solely to take advantage of a MQM promotion from a focus city. Which is just another way of working the system.
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