DeltaFan4Now

I believe the speculation on this revolves around the line item now in the Account Activity page:

incl. Medallion® Qualification Miles (rolled over): 24,596

This would be the accounting for the source that has people worried (angry, confused, fill in your emotion of the moment)

BamaGirl

There's a long discussion about this here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...10-2011-a.html

ENIAC

I think DL will "reroll" whatever miles you have beyond those needed to qualify for your elite tier.

Why? Well first, as has been noted, keeping track of the two totals would complicate things massively and lead to a lot of confusion and argument.

Second, DL wants to give us an incentive to keep flying after hitting a threshold. Say I roll over 20K , then fly 45K the next year. If you can't reroll, I'd finish the year with 65K EQMs, but roll over nothing because this year the 15K surplus I finish with is smaller than the 20K I rolled over last time.

So we'd be back to the old situation DL introduced rollover to get away from: no reason to keep flying after 50K EQM unless I can hit 75K.

RealHJ

That is exactly how I see it. I can't imagine of any other logical or feasible explanation here, like the ones that others have tried to fathom. If it's not this, there will be, no doubt, a revolt by hundreds of thousands of SM members - and Delta may be dumb but it's not stupid, it doesn't want that. <Rant On>Instead of dealing with that, it can keep squandering time and money to put the proverbial lipstick (purely cosmetic, vapid changes) to the proverbial pig (the extremely buggy and limited functionality, anti-customer-built, delta.com). And, we all know that Dullta sure loves its two pigs on life support (delta.com ad DeltaMatic), despite them being a few decades past their life expectancy, and is going to not only put a lot of lipstick on them, but is also going to dress 'em up in a nice little pink dress, and even glue on some ribbons for good measure.</Rant Off>

Seriously though, this is the only really logical explanation.

The rolled over miles are "used up" to qualify for status.

Say someone rolled over 40K miles. Was PM at the time. Earned 10K more miles, became DM. Those 40K rolled over miles were *used.* Anything earned past the new DM level must be rolled over, there is no possible excuse not to do so.

The only case when the rollover would not roll over is if one did not earn a new status level in a year. Say one was already DM. Rolled over 10K. Earned 200K more. Then only 200K would roll over, not 210K, as the 10K was rolled over previous year and was not used to acquire any higher status than at time of rollover - i.e. it was not "used" and thus won't be re-rolled-over.

How and why would anyone think it would be any different? I just don't see the logic behind any other "interpretation" of this.

PRWeezer

And the good news is, we'll all know for sure on January 1...but why should that stop any of the wild speculation, it's too much fun.

3Cforme

All the arguments and speculation offered just a month ago can be repeated.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...10-2011-a.html

Perhaps the Mods will care to merge these threads?

BamaGirl

3Cforme, maybe you'll have better luck than I did earlier today when I pointed that thread out.

tgtg

That is assuming a website that works in conjunction with policy...

Who wants to bet on 1/1/11 we will see a new thread: MY ROLLOVER MILES SAY ZERO

-=tg=-

mkgrip

I would think that re-qualifying is "gaining a new status". Even if you qualify for Diamond, roll over 25K and don't fly a mile next year, you would "use up" those 25K to qualify for Silver for the next year.

bgrant99

I am betting that the rollover miles that came forward this year were the miles counted first towards status. If you flew 20k miles and carried over 20k miles the rolled over miles were there on 1/1/10 and the 20k earned miles were subsequent so your rollover 15k miles on the earned miles would carry forward. Just my $0.02

ULDB65

Every one of my rollover miles was earned. DL does not say I had to earn them in the current calendar year. I fully expect everything over 125k to rollover, regardless of when I earned it.

g50

Got this e-mail Fri.

To me, this means our 2011 MQMs will rollover into 2012 as well. The first part is about 2011 the second is 2010. I am sure he only meant to say our mqms will roll over into 2011, but...
Also unlimited means if you have 375k mqms you are DM for 3 more years period.

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mfullmer

One of my colleagues called Delta on Thursday the 23rd and was told that the rollover miles WOULD include the miles that were rolled over from the year before. Of course, I've had several instances where Delta employees told me several different things.

RunawayNFly

I received an e-mail that confirmed that ALL MQM will roll over, regardless of the year that they were earned.

BamaGirl

It would be nice if Delta would tell us what the program rules/changes/benefits for 2011 will be. Am I 'misremembering', or hasn't the announcement usually been made by now?