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I would apply, (NOT using the option that says if you are an existing Amex card member click here) and you should be fine (reward for filling details manually). After you get the card and use it, then add it to your Amex online profile. You should be good for 30k MQMs after 50k spend this year (5+5+10+10).

MLM JET

I could not find a better place to post but heres my question?

Can I have 2 reserve cards one for me and one for my wife, then after each of us get 30k MQM for the 60K spend. I would have my wife gift me the 30k MQMs to my account? Does this work?

Also can I have two reserve cards and get 60K MQM after spending 120K total?

Thanks in advance!

mooper

Any person (assuming they qualify) may have two Reserve cards: one consumer/personal version, on business version. Any time you reach $30K on spending on either card ($60K max per card), you get 15K MQMs. Therefore, spending $60K on both ($120K total) will yield 60K MQMs. Those MQMs may be kept by the card holder *or* assigned to any Delta member of your choice.

If your wife has one or more Reserve cards and hits the spending thresholds (the first one is at $30K, second at $60K), she may assign her MQMs to you. The one-time bonus MQMs you get for signing up for the card, however, are not assignable... only the threshold ones. If she has two Reserve cards, spends $60K on each, assigns all MQMs to you, and you have two Reserve cards, spend the same but keep your MQMs, you can get 120K MQMs/year this way. Want more? Get two Platinum cards (one consumer, one business), spend $50K on each of those ($100K total), and you'll snag another 40K MQMs, bringing yourself to 160K MQMs/year. Platinum card threshold MQMs, however, are not assignable, so your wife couldn't get them and give them to you like she could with the Reserve.

GRALISTAIR

I know this has been said 1 million times, but it is just plain wrong that you can get MQMs for credit card spend. Miles/SkyPesos yes but not MQMs

MSPeconomist

You get MQMs when you hit certain spend thresholds on the DL AmEx Plat and Reserve credit cards. For the Reserve card, these MQMs can be gifted to someone else.

mooper

Delta is a for-profit company and has chosen to align MQM (EQM) earning with activities that bolster their bottom line. A Delta customer who spends $20,000/year on airfare and doesn't use a Delta credit card might yield Delta $3,000 in profits, while a customer who spends $2,000/year on airfare but $60,000 on an Amex Reserve card might yield the same profits. Makes perfect sense that Delta wants to give both of them similar incentives - nothing wrong about it.

DeltaFan4Now

It's one of the few truly distinctive features of this FF program (besides poor award ticket availability in LOW ). Is it really wrong, or is it unusual thus making you uncomfortable? Other airlines and CC companies seem to be going slowly in this direction, so perhaps the unusual part will cease to be an issue soon...

MSPeconomist

An example is that SPG gives a few night and stay credits to those who have their credit card, in addition to more points based on spending.

slonvalmisa

Hello. And Bye.

MSPeconomist

Huh? Hello?

aubreyfromwheaton

For sure. Hell, Chase, Citi and even C1 reward far less spend very handsomely!

Besides, Plastic Platinums and Promo Platinums like me don't fly very much so we don't garner as many total upgrades as Sentient Segmentists who barely make FO or GM lol