Originally Posted by Robert Leach

Do what you need to do, but look at this statement you made very carefully.

If you truly believe this, then you will surely be willing to sacrifice something in order to continue flying on the airline with the "best product on the market."

Having said that, given that you are a DM I am not sure I quite understand what you are so upset about. If you fly, as an example, BKK-NRT-ATL-NRT-BKK currently on an M fare for $3600, you would earn 9740 miles each way x 2 = 19480 miles roundtrip plus a DM bonus of 125% that equals 24,350 miles plus an M fare bonus of 9740 roundtrip, for a grand total of 53750 miles. The same $3600 under the new program would earn you $3600 x 11 miles/per/dollar, which is 39,600 miles. However, under the new program, for two of your roundtrips you can use the lowest fare coupled with one of your Global Upgrades, so you would fly for far less than $3600 roundtrip on those two trips, so in a given year you would cut your out-of-pocket expenses a bit.

To me, when you factor in everything, for you it is very close to a wash. You will earn fewer miles, but you will also spend less for the same number of trips given that two of them can be from lowest fares rather than M fares. Given that you get to fly in the front cabin in the "best product on the market" I don't quite understand your angst.

Throughout time, people have generally had to pay more for the "best product on the market" than other options.

I am not trying to be a Delta apologist, but you do insinuate that you are getting chopped off at the knees when I respectfully submit that you are not. You are getting trimmed a bit, but that is just part of a natural market correction as competition decreases.

I did all this math in a hurry, so forgive me if I am off a few miles here or there.