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Old Nov 5, 2018 | 8:34 pm
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Originally Posted by In2ishn
I was a Charter Diamond plus the next year. Since then, while I have significant international bis, I have rolled over miles each year and stayed Plat. GUC’s are great IF you buy YBM and IF you can manage to apply them.

YMMV
This is out of date. It's been years and years since GUCs required Y B M fares on DL operated flights.

Personally, I don't see the value of accumulating a stash of rollover MQMs since DL could eliminate them at any point or up the MQD requirements to make them worthless (which has already happened somewhat with DL's decision to raise the AmEx MQD waiver for DM to $250,000).
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