Originally Posted by jamesteroh

If someone has both a business and personal reserve and platinum and they go for the max mqm spends like I have done in the past it requires 220K in spend so this is only requiring an additional $30K in spend but Delta has slashed the value of skymiles so much it doesn't seem worth it. That would amount to 350,000 total skymiles if someone receives the boost from both cards (250K in spend and the 100K in mileage boosts). If there was inventory available on the routes I wanted for GUC it could be worth it's hard to find international flights that a GUC will clear on and last year I sat in coach on a couple flights I had RUC's waitlisted on.