safigan

The best way to demonstrate the dilutive effect of this offer on BIS mile earners is by looking at the existing Skymiles AmEx. My family owns 3 of these; I will make PM, my wife and daughter will make FO. Without these cards, neither my wife nor my daughter would have status; I would still make PM but only because of the double MQM offer-- another dilutive promotion. So you could make the case that I might be sitting in your PM first class seat on at least one of the dozen or so flights I take in a year. My wife and daughter are less of an issue for upgrades; maybe they'll be waiting in a priority security line ahead of you.

I Love to Travel

It is an Amex. I heard about it last week from an Amex CSR. I wanted to convert my Blue to a Delta. When he checked, the system would only allow a product trade to another Blue, Clear or Delta Reserve - which had not yet been introduced. I asked about this card, but he knew very little about it (he hadn't been trained on this card product yet). He did try to get some information and found that it's $450/yr and you get MQM's with certain spend levels and would be available probably in the next month or so.

sammy0623

i'm with you on this one. imagine i can buy up to GM or PM for a decent price (i'm ZM right now-zero medallion, my 3K MQMs this year haven't got me very far). this would probably push all of my flying to DL, from SWA or the occasional CO. The extra miles I would earn, along with the possibility of an UG to 1st would be enough to take me from 1-2 DL flights a year to probably something like 12-20...multiply this by everyone else who takes them up on this offer...

ctownflyer

Delta Reserve Application
10K MQM signup bonus.
15K bonus MQM per $30K spend.
Max 30K MQM spending bonus/calendar year.

DiverDave

Looks like it's a business card. Here's the bennies.

# Earn up to 10,000 Medallion® Qualification Miles (MQMs) after your first purchase
# Unparalleled Built-in Miles BoostSM — earn up to 30,000 MQMs and 30,000 bonus miles
# Complimentary Crown Room Club® access for you and two guests
# Free* annual domestic companion certificate, which can be used for a First-Class or Coach-Class ticket
# Access to American Express® Concierge Services — consultants are available 24 hours a day
# Pay with Miles — pay for all or part of any eligible Delta flight with your miles
# Save 5% on all flights purchased directly from Delta

GM99

Upgrades from a Platinum Delta SkyMiles Business Credit Card to a Delta Reserve for Business Credit Card will receive 5,000 Medallion® Qualification Miles. This offer is valid for first-time Delta SkyMiles Credit Cardmembers only. If you already have or had any other Delta SkyMiles Credit Card from American Express account(s), you are eligible to receive only the incremental difference between the Welcome Bonus miles offered herein and the amount offered with such other account(s)

The close of the calendar year is December 31, without regard to the time of the year that the account is opened. If in any calendar year your Eligible Spending on your Delta Reserve for Business Credit Card is $30,000 or more, you will be awarded 15,000 Bonus Miles and 15,000 Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs). The 15,000 MQMs are not redeemable and only count toward Medallion status. The MQMs are yours to keep or gift to someone else, and if in that same calendar year your Eligible Spending on your Delta Reserve for Business Credit Card is $60,000 or more, you will be awarded 15,000 Bonus Miles and 15,000 MQMs. The MQMs are yours to keep or gift to someone else. MQM gift recipients must have a valid SkyMiles account. If within 90 days you do not elect to designate an MQM recipient, the MQMs will be deposited in your SkyMiles account.

troyb

I suppose it is good news that the MQM's aren't unlimited. I wonder if this can be combined with the other DL AMEX cards for additional MQM's. Either way, it's not as bad as I originally suspected, but its still a cut to the Medallion program.

ctownflyer

The way I read it is that you can combine this with the regular Delta business platinum to get potentially 65K MQM in the first year.

You can't however get the MQM's from 2 delta reserve cards.

Helena Handbaskets

Interesting that they stipulate the first 15k MQMs are not redeemable. Not that MQMs ever have been redeemable, but the 10k MQM "miles boosts" on the current Platinum Skymiles cards do come with 10k Skymiles as well, even though that's not a published benefit.

The application page posted above is down right now. What's the annual fee on this card?

Robert Leach

That's a pretty significant feature there.

The Amex Open Network cards currently offer 3% savings on Delta.

Helena Handbaskets

Yeah, but the Delta branded business Amex adds another 2%, so this benefit does not improve over the existing card.

PhilC

$450

I interpreted it as the first 15K MQMs also come with 15K spendable miles but if you choose to gift the 15K MQMs, the gift is MQMs only, not spendable miles.

If in any calendar year your Eligible Spending on your Delta Reserve for Business Credit Card is $30,000 or more, you will be awarded 15,000 Bonus Miles and 15,000 Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs). The 15,000 MQMs are not redeemable and only count toward Medallion status. The MQMs are yours to keep or gift to someone else

mtparadis

Here's some more info from the Amex site:
http://www201.americanexpress.com/ap.../20/n&from=102

AndyTLe

NO NO NO NO NO... This is a step backwards. This ONLY gives CRC access and NOT membership.

That means, I assume you don't get access to Elite Security Lines (if not a GM or PM) as mentioned in CRC membership.

RobertS975

So if it just CRC access and not membership, I suppose that doesn't include free T Mobile internet as well?