Originally Posted by
traveller001
Elite renewal was always a rolling number... once you hit 12 credits in the last twelve months you were good for another year past that date. Fly another RT and it got bumped further out. Surely the easiest Status renewal in the business.
So you since you are 5-6 credits short you've flown only 6 or 7 flights in the last year.. DL is IMO not going to be impressed. They at best will offer you a challenge and it will be a pretty huge challenge considering your travel.
Actually I have flown 26 times in 2013 itself on AirTran. I took 3 international trips - one on Delta, one on British Airways. I remember requalifying pretty early last year and dont know why I still have 6 credits left. And thanks to phasing out some AirTran flights this year, I have flown only 4 times since January of this year. But my heavy travel is upcoming. And that includes international. I wonder if I can make a case of presenting my british airways miles and my AirTran flights to Delta and make the case that I can bundle both to Delta. Or have them give me a status challenge and I can make an international trip on that challenge.
[UPDATE]: I called A+ Rewards line. The lady was very nice and it took her a long time to get someone from Rapid Rewards to talk to her , but she held on patiently. And she took care of it and got me a "tier status" match as she called it. She said that was the key word to use. So I am good until Oct 26. I am sure I can get those 6 flights pretty easily with some trips to Philly , Boston to kick it into next year.
We shall see how my first WN trip goes in a couple of weeks.