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Oct 15, 2015 | 9:35 am

#393

DiverDave

Join Date: Jun 2005

Location: Huntsville, AL

Programs: DL DM 2.017 MM, Hilton Life Diamond, IHG Diamond, Avis CHM, Marriott Titanium (life gold), AA Gold

Posts: 8,049

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Originally Posted by stealthpilot

Too bad. I lost Concierge Key in my quest for 360. If I don't get it, Delta will lose at least 50% of my revenue next year.

So why did you give up the bird in the hand, for the less appealing (as evidenced below) bird in the bush?

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Originally Posted by stealthpilot

While Delta dishes out more miles, their redemption requirements are roughly 2.5-3X AAs so it nets out - the sky miles are not worth as much. This year I have earned so far 1m miles and redeemed 600k miles just on a pair of roundtrip delta one flights to Europe for my wife and I. On AA that redemption would have been about 250k miles and would have been BA First.

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