Originally Posted by
ClipperDelta
Cheap gift? Hartman luggage costing up to $500-$600 is cheap? AA and UA provide you with NO gift.
In terms of attaining MM status, here is the order of "easiness":
AA - easiest; counts all miles; 1MM provides you with Gold (equiv of Silver Medallion)
DL and CO - tie; count MQM/EQM; 1MM provides you with Silver on both
UA - hardest; counts only UA Flight Miles; 1MM provides you with Premier (equiv of Silver Medallion); and UA easily has 4 layers - Premier, Prem Exec, 1K and UGS...
UA - 1MM equals Gold status on Delta (Premiere Exec). And you get two confirmable domestic upgrades (at time of purchase) good on all fares including Hawaii, every year! And a one time gift of 3 SWU's good on most fares internationally. Took me a lot less time to get to 1MM on United than 2MM on Delta.
UA also give 1K status at 3MM.
And if UA has 4 tiers, then Delta has 5 and two of those cannot be obtained via the MM program
Delta does give a nice gift (or at least did).
Billy