New Delta Reserve card from American Express.
#421
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I have DL Reserve Card and just received an offer for DL Plat. The offer states 25k bonus miles (5k that count as MQM) after the first purchase and an additional 10k bonus miles (5k that count as MQM) after spending $1,000. Then the offer states that you can earn up to 20k additional MQM with mileage boosts (assuming it refers to the spending thresholds quoted above). At the bottom of the offer it states that this is not valid for existing Delta SkyMiles Credit Cardmembers.
Two questions. As a DL Reserve card holder I assume I am an existing Delta SkyMiles Credit Cardmember. Does this mean that the entire offer is not valid or just the 35k bonus miles and 10k bonus MQMs are not available, but I will still be able to earn the 20k MQM mileage boosts?
Two questions. As a DL Reserve card holder I assume I am an existing Delta SkyMiles Credit Cardmember. Does this mean that the entire offer is not valid or just the 35k bonus miles and 10k bonus MQMs are not available, but I will still be able to earn the 20k MQM mileage boosts?
#422
Join Date: Feb 2011
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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!
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!
#423
Join Date: Oct 2004
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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!
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!
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.
#424
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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
#425
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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.
#426
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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.
#427
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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...
#428
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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...
#429
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#430
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#431
Join Date: Jun 2010
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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.
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