Delta SkyClub Lifetime Membership
#76
In memoriam
Join Date: Dec 2001
Programs: DL 2MM, AA MM, DL Sky Club Life, AA Admirals Club Life, Hilton Gold Life
Posts: 1,732
A few updates for Lifetime Members based my email correspondence with the Delta SkyClub Service Center regarding recent access changes :
1) The three hour early arrival rule does not apply to Lifetime Members
2) When clubs have a "line pass" sign for 360/Diamond/Delta One guests, Lifetime Members are excluded from the line pass benefit.
3) Lifetime Members continue to have Sky Club access regardless of air carrier.
1) The three hour early arrival rule does not apply to Lifetime Members
2) When clubs have a "line pass" sign for 360/Diamond/Delta One guests, Lifetime Members are excluded from the line pass benefit.
3) Lifetime Members continue to have Sky Club access regardless of air carrier.
When you say excluded from benefit does that mean us old folks have to stand in the long line even if we are Diamond?
#77
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Earth. Residency:HKG formerly:YYZ
Programs: CX, DL, Nexus/GE, APEC
Posts: 10,659
A few updates for Lifetime Members based my email correspondence with the Delta SkyClub Service Center regarding recent access changes :
1) The three hour early arrival rule does not apply to Lifetime Members
2) When clubs have a "line pass" sign for 360/Diamond/Delta One guests, Lifetime Members are excluded from the line pass benefit.
3) Lifetime Members continue to have Sky Club access regardless of air carrier.
1) The three hour early arrival rule does not apply to Lifetime Members
2) When clubs have a "line pass" sign for 360/Diamond/Delta One guests, Lifetime Members are excluded from the line pass benefit.
3) Lifetime Members continue to have Sky Club access regardless of air carrier.
#78
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,097
#79
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 22,927
"Lifetime Members may continue to access the Club with same-day ticketed air travel on any airline. "
#80
Join Date: Aug 2007
Programs: DL DM
Posts: 1,076
A few updates for Lifetime Members based my email correspondence with the Delta SkyClub Service Center regarding recent access changes :
1) The three hour early arrival rule does not apply to Lifetime Members
2) When clubs have a "line pass" sign for 360/Diamond/Delta One guests, Lifetime Members are excluded from the line pass benefit.
3) Lifetime Members continue to have Sky Club access regardless of air carrier.
1) The three hour early arrival rule does not apply to Lifetime Members
2) When clubs have a "line pass" sign for 360/Diamond/Delta One guests, Lifetime Members are excluded from the line pass benefit.
3) Lifetime Members continue to have Sky Club access regardless of air carrier.
#82
Join Date: May 2002
Location: STL
Programs: DL PM/1MM, DL SkClub LT, Marr LT Plat, IHG Plat, HH Diam
Posts: 1,990
It's just CRAZY that anyone would think that Lifetimes MIGHT be excluded from the lines and email Delta for clarification. That's borderline insane isn't it? Bahahahaha
#83
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Midwest
Posts: 66
I seem to recall that NW had a limited-time promotion for like $1500 for a lifetime membership in the early/mid 2000s around the holiday time, although it may have been a 10-year membership and not lifetime (memory is a little fuzzy). I remember chatting with someone at a law firm that had bought up a whole bunch of them for their staff as a holiday bonus that year and it was a huge hit.
#84
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,097
That's not the case for lifetime members, they've already bought the thing. Immediate access regardless of current occupancy or even access ahead of other members was not part of what they bought.
Additionally, there's no incentive for DL to give them anything they didn't actually pay for. They're by definition not going to write a check for future access.
#85
In memoriam
Join Date: Dec 2001
Programs: DL 2MM, AA MM, DL Sky Club Life, AA Admirals Club Life, Hilton Gold Life
Posts: 1,732
This is a misunderstanding of what has been done for lifetime members. What has happened is that the rules have remained the same for them - the same as they were when they stopped selling lifetime memberships. Whereas other access methods are all time limited, you're essentially agreeing to a new "contract" of access each year when you buy a membership, renew your Amex, or a one-time "contract" when you buy a D1 ticket. The fact that the rules were X last year is irrelevant when you're buying access now.
That's not the case for lifetime members, they've already bought the thing. Immediate access regardless of current occupancy or even access ahead of other members was not part of what they bought.
Additionally, there's no incentive for DL to give them anything they didn't actually pay for. They're by definition not going to write a check for future access.
That's not the case for lifetime members, they've already bought the thing. Immediate access regardless of current occupancy or even access ahead of other members was not part of what they bought.
Additionally, there's no incentive for DL to give them anything they didn't actually pay for. They're by definition not going to write a check for future access.
Now all we have to do is to have Delta state the same and get away from all our ad-hoc interpretations
#86
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Earth. Residency:HKG formerly:YYZ
Programs: CX, DL, Nexus/GE, APEC
Posts: 10,659
I seem to recall that NW had a limited-time promotion for like $1500 for a lifetime membership in the early/mid 2000s around the holiday time, although it may have been a 10-year membership and not lifetime (memory is a little fuzzy). I remember chatting with someone at a law firm that had bought up a whole bunch of them for their staff as a holiday bonus that year and it was a huge hit.
#87
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Earth. Residency:HKG formerly:YYZ
Programs: CX, DL, Nexus/GE, APEC
Posts: 10,659
I seem to recall that NW had a limited-time promotion for like $1500 for a lifetime membership in the early/mid 2000s around the holiday time, although it may have been a 10-year membership and not lifetime (memory is a little fuzzy). I remember chatting with someone at a law firm that had bought up a whole bunch of them for their staff as a holiday bonus that year and it was a huge hit.
#89
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2023
Posts: 2
My father acquired his lifetime DL membership via Western. Although born in the 1980s, I heeded his advice about buying lifetime lounge memberships as a twenty-something.
Right out of college I bought a life CO Presidents Club membership, followed by a TWA Ambassadors life membership. I'll echo the feelings of others who still have a bad taste left when AA did not honor the program.
Regardless, a few years later AA offered lifetime Admirals Club memberships for a brief period of time (Three months?) so I signed up.
Immediately after the DL/NW merger was announced, I bought a life WorldClubs membership.
Overall I'm quite happy not being locked into one airline; it also occasionally means being able to pick and choose from lounges, i.e. at HNL the AC used to offer showers, the DL SC better food and the NW WC better drinks.
Ironically I now spend most of my time lounging in Centurion lounges; fortunately the $550 annual fee is basically a wash after $200 in airline fee credit, $200 in Uber credit and Boingo acccess.
Right out of college I bought a life CO Presidents Club membership, followed by a TWA Ambassadors life membership. I'll echo the feelings of others who still have a bad taste left when AA did not honor the program.
Regardless, a few years later AA offered lifetime Admirals Club memberships for a brief period of time (Three months?) so I signed up.
Immediately after the DL/NW merger was announced, I bought a life WorldClubs membership.
Overall I'm quite happy not being locked into one airline; it also occasionally means being able to pick and choose from lounges, i.e. at HNL the AC used to offer showers, the DL SC better food and the NW WC better drinks.
Ironically I now spend most of my time lounging in Centurion lounges; fortunately the $550 annual fee is basically a wash after $200 in airline fee credit, $200 in Uber credit and Boingo acccess.
#90
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2023
Posts: 2
E mail me .I am in exact same position you are.
bought my lifetime in 79 or 80 from Western. I am a retired Western/Delta pilot.. we need to talk
[email protected]
8015188988
bought my lifetime in 79 or 80 from Western. I am a retired Western/Delta pilot.. we need to talk
[email protected]
8015188988