Lean Guy

I just hit Diamond for the first time and selected the executive membership upgrade for 2016.

I travel a lot with my spouse so it made sense for me. My question is can I use it for the balance of 2015? Or will it not kick in until 2016?

I selected yesterday and we are flying home this Friday. Just wondering if we will have lounge access.

Jason

xliioper

Did you read the T&C's? Seems pretty clear it becomes effective as soon as you make the selection and will be effective until Jan 31, 2017 (since you just hit Diamond and are thus using a 2016 Choice Benefit selection).


Delta Sky Club Executive Membership Upgrade: Members who qualify for Diamond Medallion status may use one of their Choice Benefits selections to upgrade from an Individual to an Executive Delta Sky Club Membership. The Executive upgrade will be applied to the oldest issued Individual Membership and the member will receive an Executive Membership for the amount of time between Choice Benefits selection and the end of the 2015 Medallion year (January 31, 2016) for 2015 selections, and the end of the 2016 Medallion year (January 31, 2017) for 2016 selections.

Lean Guy

Yes I did read the T&C's and it wasn't crystal clear to me but that was my interpretation as well. It just took awhile for the upgrade to post to my account. It posted this morning.

Thanks for the reply.

FlyAO2

I don't really get this. Do you not value 4 GLOBAL UPGRADE (or 8 regional ones) ceritifcates at more than $450?

rylan

Actually the difference between the individual membership that comes from being a DM and the exec is only $245.

BusTrav8yrs

You get two choices. albeit you are shortening the life of GUC's picking them this early

Lean Guy

I did also select the upgrade certificates. I mostly fly the same route and upgrades, even at the platinum level, were almost always guaranteed because of the times that I usually flew. Having said that I did select the 8 regional certificates. That made the most sense for the locations that I fly to.

The upgrade cert's are good for one year so you are not really shortening the life of them - you just have 12 months to use them.

BusTrav8yrs

Yes you are. You select them today they expire a year from today. You select them Jan 31 next year they expire Jan 31 2017. If I know I am not going to use them in the next 3 months I would wait to select them.

Lean Guy

Yes, you are correct if I wasn't going to use them in 2015 then I would be limiting them. In my case I will be able to put them to good use in the next few months.

Rondelltg

If you already carry the Delta Reserve (lounge access) card the second card (also w/lounge access) would only be $175.00