Originally Posted by
Ben7
I've always been curious and I guess this is now the last chance to try it if someone ever wanted to.
Is there any limit to how many MQM status boosts you can apply to one account? In theory, could you take out a lot of (probably business) Delta Amex cards and spend $120,000 on the Reserve and $50,000 on the Platinum for the MQMs?
If starting from scratch, it works out that you'd need to spend $50,000 on card fees and spend $10,625,000 on the cards to get Lifetime Delta 360 now. Would be hard to execute with so little time left but better than getting to Lifetime Diamond was before the changes as you'd need to spend $60,000 on card fees and spend $12,750,000 on the cards.
*I know it's not actually lifetime etc etc
MQM boost miles can be deposited in any skymiles account (doesn't need to be the cardholder's SM account), and there's no stated limit (although getting millions of miles dumped into a single account will no doubt raise flags). 2x Reserve and 2x Platinum maxes you at 160,000MQM from boosts (and takes $1600 in AF). The remaining 2.84M MQM (for DM) would need to come from other's DL AMEX cards. The math on 3M MQM for DM would be $30k in AF (19 sets of 4 cards) and $6.4M spend - easy peasy
