Originally Posted by
mthake
Travelers,
I decided to switch to Delta, as I'm way beyond any benefits from Southwest.
I received Gold Medallion, as a status match to my Companion Pass, (with over 400k miles this year). I know, BS right?
I'm required to earn 12,500 MQM's in the next 90 days, to maintain gold in 2016.
My first segment was last night. STL-ATL, @ $244. I received 1220 miles, but only 500 MQM's.
Why did I only earn 500 MQM's?
Please help, I'm very disappointed.
Honestly I'm surprised delta offered a status match from southwest.. Historically they used to not offer anything for the "discount" carriers (southwest, JetBlue, etc). Gold is actually a pretty good starting place though; IMO the first status tier that confers a solid lineup of benefits.
RE MQM, those are based on the actual flight distance. The minimum is 500, so any short hops less than 500 (like STL -> ATL, which I believe is ~470) get rounded up to 500.
If you fly first class (or on *very* expensive coach fares) you get a 50% MQM bump... But otherwise MQM is based 100% on flight distance.