Originally Posted by
LynniePP
Hello fellow travelers, I'm hoping to maintain Diamond status for 2024 by doing an MQD run in December. I need 8778. Is this feasible??? I know I'll need to ticket on a Delta partner and pay up to be in at least Premium Economy to maximize the MQD's earned. I had a heck of a time getting KLM to transfer over the MQD's to Delta last year, so would like to avoid KLM and welcome advice on which partner airlines are good and prompt with crediting the MQD's over to Delta. Many, many thanks for any advice. Lynne
Departure Airport: BOS (Boston)
Miles Needed: 0 I've qualified with having 180,705 in MQM's (125,000 are needed)
MQD's needed: 8778
Required Spend or Budget: cheapest. Hoping to spend less than $2500.
Available Travel Dates: December 8 - 20th 2023.
Required Metal or Codeshares okay*: any qualifying Skyteam okay
If you can reposition to Vancouver, BC and also go above your budget then you can take a business class flight (Korean Air) to Auckland and earn about $9800 MQDs
e.g. Dec 12 - 14, YVR-SEA-ICN-AKL-ICN-LAS-YVR, $4437 (Korean Air business), about $9800 MQDs and 37,000 MQMs, 2.5 hours in Auckland (you can make it a longer trip for only about $100),
Google Flights link