Originally Posted by
chipbennett
This is the real issue. The spend rewards for the DL Reserve AmEx just inherently aren't all that great compared to the rewards on other types of cards. So, IMHO there's only a small market segment who would churn spend on the Reserve just to earn the MQD Boost, as a means to achieve status. The market segments of people who achieve status organically through flying/direct Delta spend, and people who would choose to put $280K on a card other than the Reserve, have to be much bigger.
I agree. As I noted somewhere else, if Delta isn't going to provide objective MQD targets past the Diamond threshold, a
big improvement would be to allow folks to waive part of the MQD earnings (either all past the Diamond threshold or just in general) in exchange for
something else.