Originally Posted by
edrags2
I 100% agree. I am astounded by this counterswing of the pendulum. There will be a ton of EOY 23 Diamonds (including myself) who have hundreds of thousands of MQMs squirreled away and who will choose the option of status extension for anywhere fro 1-10 years. And in an effort to goose the Amex spending there will be a horde of new platinums that are sticking around for years.
This just makes no sense. Delta has utterly failed with both the goals they were pursuing to begin with
I do think that people like you are a fairly small percentage/number of Delta flyers; you’re just over-represented on FT. The pandemic rollover medallion boosts for most people would have run out somewhere around 2025-26.
However people like you are actual high value flyers and not ‘high value flyers’, and given how generous the program revisions were in part at the pointy end of the elite curve, I suspect that Delta got some really brutal blowback from genuinely high value flyers and felt like they had to overcompensate like they did to suddenly not lose that high value flyer pool that they discovered they’d been taking for granted as they developed the new SkySpend program.