Originally Posted by
ATOBTTR
I have to agree. The Reserve is now a "BOGO" card where you pay about as much for card as you would for the "free" ticket. And you can access the SC a few times a year with it.
I won't be shocked if there is significant Reserve card cancellations in the wake of this (and possibly AmEx Platinum card cancellations too though I suspect the impact there may be less, especially outside of DL hubs). If my DL Reserve wasn't free, I'd probably be dumping it.
I'm almost certainly going to cancel mine. I don't value SC access at $30 a visit and aside from the upgrade tiebreaker (which honestly I don't think does much for me, I usually either clear at the PM window and or am nowhere close), that'll be the only benefit. AF posts in a couple weeks so debatable if I want to keep it for one more year or work on building AA status next year while I still have PM on DL. That'll probably get answered tomorrow once we see how brutal the medallion changes are.
Edit: Appears the Reserve is going to earn MQD at double the rate of the Plat. That makes the argument a bit more interesting if I want to stay fully in the DL ecosystem, though I think that makes the argument for going to low level status on both DL and AA a lot more appealing.