The one-year time limit on selecting the gift may be a new rule that applies only to recent Million Milers. It’s definitely on the gift page plus the MM congratulatory email I received today includes the instruction “Make sure to select your gift within one year.”
Delta has gone to cheaper options for all the Hartmann and Tumi gifts. I have seen Hartmann luggage similar to the DL gift ones on Amazon for <$300, although they may not be the newest model. Plus the Hartmann case weighs over 9 pounds, way too heavy as far as I’m concerned.
Is it worth writing to Delta to express disappointment about the reduction in the MM gifts? I really am disappointed! I doubt that they care about my measly single MM opinion, but maybe if some of you 2-5 MMs wrote?