Originally Posted by
Adelphos
Also remember that Delta probably gets a good amount of revenue from Membership Rewards to Skymiles transfers, so they want to keep the vanilla Platinum Delta fliers engaged.
I'm one of those people- I've transferred nearly 200,000 Membership Rewards points (mostly earned on my vanilla Amex Plat) to DL over the past few months, and I think the common belief is that Amex pays DL around 1 cent, or a bit under, per point transferred?