Well it may be too late, but if you don't have the DL plat amex then that gives you 5k on signup and next year will give you up to 20k MQMs if you spend 50k.

I hope you are joking about all this, but DL gave away up to 50K in MQMs this year to my coworker.

30K from the plat amex, 15k for flying 7500 MQMs during the summer, and another 5k for an Avis/Hilton promo. I think there was another small potential bonus with that summer promo too.

You could make plat with a very small amount of travel this year. So if you are expecting us to feel sorry for you - we don't. Some of us actually fly the miles yet we have to compete with people like my coworker who was always short of GM every year but now made PM before I even had enough! (I didn't get the summer promo)