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Old Dec 21, 2013 | 10:05 am
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Originally Posted by Sez_Who
Well, one more reason -- and in this OP's case the only reason -- for the DL AmEx Plat or Reserve card...

Even DM's can benefit from the cc spend that gives more MQM's. Up to 20K MQM's with the Plat card, 30K with Reserve. If not needed this year, it is all rolled over to the following year.
OP said he'll earn enough MQMs and MQDs without the card... And with MQDs now in play, rollover MQMs are not nearly as useful as they used to be.
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