Originally Posted by
emma dog
I guess I’ll say that I don’t really have this as a concern. The projection is “fine” for DL flights as long as there isn’t a ticket exchange. As
xliioper mentions above, CC spend posts pretty quickly. Not sure why I would need to project that to that great of detail. I’m not earning $28001 MQD… even if I were close, I wouldn’t “risk” being that close on something I care about.
There is no reward for making the exact minimum.
There's also no reward for exceeding the minimum.
But I agree with your sentiment. I'm not sure I understand the complaint/concern here. And while DL does project out future flights, I don't know how DL would project one's future CC spend. DL does show how short you are of the next threshold based on current projections. If you're projected 500 MQDs short of the next threshold, that means you need to A) book 500 MQDs worth of flights (probably $550-$600 in actual flight spend), B) Spend $5,000 or $10,000 on your Reserve or DL Plat AmEx (respectively), or C) achieve a scaling combination of the two. Not sure why DL needs to be involved in the math here though other than saying "You're 500 MQDs short" which again, DL does do already.