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Nov 30, 2008 | 5:09 pm

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Marathon Man

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Originally Posted by pilo

DL has devalued its miles with the 3-tier structure. That being said, it is far easier to earn miles on DL (they constantly do 30-50% bonuses, etc).

In the end, the smart thing to do is to keep them in SPG account until you actually need to *use* them, and then transfer to whoever has availability.

...knowing that SPG transfers to airlines can take a week to two weeks to complete (last AA one I did from SPG took 7 days)

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