Any chance of early status upgrade?
Oct 30, 2014, 12:50 am
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Any chance of early status upgrade?
I'm an FO with 16k needed for gold. I have a 20,000 mile trip booked in Nov. Anyway DL can bump me up based on this booking? Would like to have the lounge access etc if possible. Who would I contact?
Oct 30, 2014, 1:10 am
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Nope, not going to happen. Being a UA 1K, I'm sure you could have gotten a status challenge match out of Delta, but still you would have needed to meet the challenge requirement first before being granted the status and the benefits of that status. No soft landings of any kind.
Oct 30, 2014, 1:41 am
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Nope, not going to happen. Being a UA 1K, I'm sure you could have gotten a status challenge match out of Delta, but still you would have needed to meet the challenge requirement first before being granted the status and the benefits of that status. No soft landings of any kind.
Oct 30, 2014, 6:33 am
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Has the OP met the MQD requirement or does he/she have a waiver?
Oct 30, 2014, 7:52 am
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Absolutely not. If DL gave status to people based on trips booked, thousands of people would have substantially higher status early in the year. Additionally DL will not boost you up to Gold if you are 16 MQMs short of the threshold. They don't give you the status till you have fully satisfied the requirements.
Oct 30, 2014, 8:31 am
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Absolutely not. If DL gave status to people based on trips booked, thousands of people would have substantially higher status early in the year. Additionally DL will not boost you up to Gold if you are 16 MQMs short of the threshold. They don't give you the status till you have fully satisfied the requirements.
Exactly. People could just buy (if they have the money on the shelf) a couple of first class fully refundable tickets for the end of the year for a boatload of mqm's, enjoy status all year, then cancel the ticket and get a full refund.
Oct 30, 2014, 8:41 am
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Delta could, if it wanted, grant status on the basis of no refunds (and while the ticket is changeable, it must be used this year). Of course, that would allow for mileage runs without flying, but I don't see how that hurts Delta too badly.
Oct 30, 2014, 9:32 am
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It screws with their load predictions and also removes the incentive for them to sell MQMs at year end for much, much higher rates than what is considered a good MR.
Oct 30, 2014, 10:09 am
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The OP wants all of the benefits of being GM without having to earn that status. Please let us know how that works out for you.
Oct 30, 2014, 11:12 am
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BTW OP, Im only 74,100 miles short of PM for next year but I PROMISE I'll fly alot before then............... the OP is really funny. Why have cable tv for entertainment when you can have FT????
Oct 30, 2014, 2:54 pm
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Well I shot them a fax. Never hurts to ask I have a mqd waiver. As for my 20k trip its booked paid for and nonrefundable. There is no incentive for DL to hook me up. Just would make my trip better. I don't expect them to make an exception by any means. I'm more than happy to earn the status. Considering 2015 though I would really like the extra rdm's
On another note I've been really impressed by DL lately in terms of onboard service and customer service. It's a real sham about the devaluations. I'm taking a few pond hops on DL this year just to hoard some miles for VS redemptions (DXB to SFO which is a great value after the hours spend finding space).
Thanks for all the replies. I'll update the thread if I hear back.
Btw years ago United granted me premex based on planned travel and from their I became a million miler plus with them
On another note I've been really impressed by DL lately in terms of onboard service and customer service. It's a real sham about the devaluations. I'm taking a few pond hops on DL this year just to hoard some miles for VS redemptions (DXB to SFO which is a great value after the hours spend finding space).
Thanks for all the replies. I'll update the thread if I hear back.
Btw years ago United granted me premex based on planned travel and from their I became a million miler plus with them
Oct 30, 2014, 3:39 pm
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I really hope you left this out of your request!
I don't think there's really any harm in asking so long as you are perfectly willing to accept an answer of "no." Never say never; several years ago, I was granted FO status for the first time at DL (after having previously had it regularly at NW) in advance of the flight where I was set to receive it.
The difference, however, is that it was granted to me proactively by someone at DL with basically unmatched customer service (many FTers can probably guess who) without my request over the course of correspondence about an unrelated issue. I think a key difference, though, is that it only fronted me FO status by one flight in a situation where I would've earned status with the first flight of a 4-segment one-way itinerary (hooray IROPS).
I don't think there's really any harm in asking so long as you are perfectly willing to accept an answer of "no." Never say never; several years ago, I was granted FO status for the first time at DL (after having previously had it regularly at NW) in advance of the flight where I was set to receive it.
The difference, however, is that it was granted to me proactively by someone at DL with basically unmatched customer service (many FTers can probably guess who) without my request over the course of correspondence about an unrelated issue. I think a key difference, though, is that it only fronted me FO status by one flight in a situation where I would've earned status with the first flight of a 4-segment one-way itinerary (hooray IROPS).
Oct 30, 2014, 5:07 pm
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Last year - I politely asked to either (1) upgrade me to GM or at least (2) throw in a "priority" sticker on my bag when I had 50,427MQM* (The account showed 49,997 MQM. I had 250MQM that didn't post prior to my flight - and it posted two days after my flight.....) ahead of a TPAC flight.
They said no
They said no