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Old Aug 28, 2025 | 11:05 am
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Originally Posted by emma dog
I can see that. I went from PM to DM because I fly a lot on shorter flights that are $400-600 ea. Now I hit it easily because my ticket prices would naturally get me DM, but the reserve spend pushes me over with a significant margin.
I was a PM with DL from '08-'23. The new spend thresholds made it easy for me to move up to DM. I've already hit DM for next year. The AMEX reserve spend mixed with higher priced tickets and a few good MDQ Delta Stays credits have been plenty. I own a business and have several employees with cards on the DL Reserve account, so all of that spend hits my card. I typically stop using the DL AMEX and move over entirely to my PLAT AMEX around mid-year and easily hit the $75k on both.

I'm sure there are a bunch of DM's in a similar boat, and some previous DM's who've moved down due to the changes.
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