Originally Posted by
rylan
THIS. I also do not see in any way how DL can expect this insane move to drive more spend to their credit cards. Do they really think they're going to suddenly have pax scrambling to buy DL cards and putting significant spend on them? Guess what, this is going to de-incentivize me to spend on the DL Reserve (or get rid of it entirely) because the earn is a joke. Putting 50k on the card just to basically bring the PM level down to what it was this year for ticket spend?
And I'm not even considering DM now... 35k MQD is wacked out.
What kind of target demographic is DL after here expecting them to put 75k+ on a credit card?
The only reason I even *have* a DL Reserve is because of the MQD waiver. I am willing to bet that there are a lot more cardholders like me who will cancel their DL Platinum or Reserve cards because they were primarily held for the MQD waiver
AND move their flying elsewhere than there are people who will
move spend to Delta cards so they can earn 0.1 MQD per dollar. I personally see this all backfiring. I don't think the math and incentives align here for people interested in status. Too much opportunity cost to attaining it.