Originally Posted by
vvbelleg
Hello,
Is there someone who can explain in very simple words how the skymiles of delta are working?
My family and I are members since a year and a half. We are flying twice a year to europe. My husband has more than 50.000 miles and is still silver. The kids and I earned 37000 miles and have no status.
Some questions:
- how do one become silver or gold? Is that only when the miles are earned within a year?
- Do you loose your silver status if you don't have more than 25000 miles a year?
- can we ever use this miles?
- Is there no way of using these miles as a family? Together we have more than 100.000 miles and paid for all these tickets.
Thx, Veerle
You can have 4,000,000 miles in your account and have no status at all.
The miles you have in your account do not give you elite status. That comes from a separate calculation of how much you actually fly (found in your account under "Earned" miles) . These are called MQM's (Medallion Qualifying Miles) and the miles in your account are called RDM's (Redeemable miles). The biggest mistake people make is thinking:
1. MQM are the number of miles in your account
2. MQM's (what elite status is based on) are spendable...they are not.