Originally Posted by
FontanaHorseman
Actually have 4 Delta AmEx cards - Personal Platinum (20K MQM) & Reserve (30K MQM) and Business Platinum (20K MQM) & Reserve (30K MQM) . Probably run $500K plus on these each year so that is 100K MQMs then fly the other 25K - 40K depending on year and long distance. Lot of short haul stuff around South East with 8 - 12 NYC runs a year.
Not elegant but gets the job done. Worse comes to worse I bounce between PM & DM every other year. Use the miles for the kids and upgrades and sometimes hotels & car rental.
Learning a lot on this forum...appreciate the advice as I figure out how to maximize everything.
FH
Aha, that makes sense...at least math-wise. Although I do wonder a bit if all that DL Amex spend is worthwhile just to maintain PM/DM for what sounds like 12-15 trips a year?
I also fly mostly short haul so I get that some more intangible benefits multiply as segments pile up, but with that much spend I have to imagine you could earn better points elsewhere and have enough to just WFBF and buy outright all the other stuff you spend miles on?