Originally Posted by
Adelphos
I am surprised Delta didn't wait to see how Diamond shook out with the $20K MQD requirement. But there may be more people who can fly Delta One ($3,000 to $7,000 or more) fares than we think, resulting in a larger DM pool than anticipated. Also I always thought the $250K MQD waiver was crazy, but apparently a lot of business owners are making that spend.
I'm almost certain that DL has (or did have) a pretty solid forecast for the PL and DM (re)qualifications. I'm also pretty sure they were going to be seeing significant declines in PL and DM requals even prior to the slaughter-simply based on 2023 qualification year requirements.