Originally Posted by
cbalaska
I'm ending 2009 with 167,043 MQMs -- except for a few hotel miles, they're basically ALL BIS miles -- no AmEx. Why did I go past 75K on DL and not switch? Because I fly domestically every week, get upgraded 99% of the time, am treated well, have good schedules from my hometown, and have rarely had good experiences with the other carriers out of FLL. Why not continue to fly DL? I earn plenty of miles and burn them just as fast. Works for me.
If it works for you, then great.
Given what DL has done to SkyMiles in the past several months to substantially reduce the customer value proposition, it is now easier than before to
burn the DL miles faster than earning them because award trip earning to regular paid trips ratio is on the decline most substantially with DL. So of course burning them fast is easy -- it is just an expensive burn.
Who burns the miles fastest? The ignorant saps who are overpaying for award travel (in terms of miles and money) relative to what the competition would offer for the same type of origin and destination trip, or even relative to what is bookable by DL-owned NW customers .... until DL further guts NW WorldPerks too.