Originally Posted by
crabbing
in contrast, last year delta had a unique partners promotion, and you were eligible for bonuses depending on how many partners you utilized. i undisputably fell short of the threshold, but i still got the bonus (something like 5k). did i try to send them back? no way! delta (and all other ff programs) exercises such exclusive control over their programs, with so many ambiguities, that i consider the terms and conditions of any promotion to be the bare minimum.
Since DL gutted SkyMiles and devalued things so bad, that 5K they gave you is just a drop in the bucket. That's when I switched to NW and now I'm afraid that the Beavis and Butthead mentality in Atlanta will eventually permeate into WP and it will be like menudo coming up a second time, if you know what I mean. The only DL remnant I have left is that I originally joined e-Rewards through SkyMiles so I now only redeem for HH points. I finally burned the rest of my miles left there when I took the boys to Hawaii in 2006 and then put the miles for my paid ticket into WP but grimaced at the empty seats up front, one of which I would have been sitting in had it been NW!