Originally Posted by ithacxa

I hate to be the party pooper here, but what would prevent Delta from doing the following:

"Effective 30 April / some other date before the next calendar year, to qualify for Diamond Status, you must have spent AT LEAST $7k/9k/12k of the $15k MQD requirement with DL...."

I'm not giving them an idea here, but the fear that they can nerf the MQD workarounds and leave us with thousand-dollar partner flights that we cannot fully use to earn DM, is making me think twice about even trying.