[QUOTE=flynhigh;35580494]At this point you are probably best to go for DM, just from a GUC perspective. The recent changes won't change anything for 2024, so DM will be crowded still. I think in the future you will be out of luck, you are already short on spending and paying fees to try to get to the status you want. Paying fees for the card, then fees to make your purchase isn't sustainable. 150,000 in spend on a card would get you or really close to getting a first class round trip ticket to Japan on ANA or JAL, and even closer in biz (Amex MR points or Chase UR). I think you will have GUC success depending on where you are trying to get to, and if you book early.[/QUOTE

GUC success will be nil for 2024 unless OP purchases a PS ticket outright. Delta crunched the numbers for DM as going from $20k MQD for 2024 to $35k MQD for 2025 is a significant jump, as the 2023 $15k MQD change to 2024 $20k MQD is peanuts. $20k MQD was still an inadequate threshold for DM.

If OP doesn’t regularly travel what’s the point for DM?

Amazing how frequent flyer BIS morphed in credit card spending on a cobranded card. Wonder why US credit debt is now over $1 trillion.