CaptKornDog

I'm probably just behind the times, but I was looking at my DL Gold Amex account this morning and realized the benefit bonus miles after spending is no longer listed (I believe it was $15,000 in a year gets you 5000 bonus award miles). I saw a few vague mentionings of this in other threads, but can anyone confirm if this perk has indeed vanished?

Thanks!

Ascii

Yep. There was a notice in a statement about it, which I used to negotiate an annual fee waiver. I don't remember exactly when it ended, though.

stils

Yes it was removed Jan 1 3012. It is one of the many reasons I bumped to DL amex plat. If you think you'll spend 25k by Dec 31 2012 maybe bump up your card now. If you do make sure to call and ask for a sign up bonus and hope they'll give it to you. Also sounds like Ascii had some luck getting an annual fee waiver. That might be worth a simple phone call to ask anyways. Worst case is they say no.

Canarsie

There is still 999 years to go — no rush.

xliioper

Search is you friend --

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...gold-amex.html

CaptKornDog

Shows how closely I looked at that statement

(I honestly didn't think I'd be close this year so it must have just slipped my mind...and now that I'm close, that hurts).

Ah, yes, there's gotta be one in every thread . I did indeed try searching but apparently couldn't phrase my keywords correct enough to narrow it down to exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for the link.

Hmm, interesting (but good) advice. I'll have to research that.

Thanks all!

ck8

So if I just upgraded from Gold to Platinum card, does my 2012 Gold card spending get transferred over to my Platinum or do I start from scratch? Thanks

DLcoop1977

I believe you start from scratch.

ck8

Indeed. Thanks for the response. I had $22k on my gold card and could have easily made another 3K for the 10K MQM boost. Bummer.

jamesteroh

Depends on what you have charged. If you already charged enough this year to get a mileage boost on your gold card you will start from scratch.

If you have not received a mileage boost, your YTD should count towards the 25K. I had a gold Delta card I obtained in 2010 and wanted to upgrade it in 2011. I was told I had to have the card for at least 12 months before I could upgrade it due to the credit card "reform" laws that had recently went in effect since they couldn't raise the annual fee on a credit card in the first 12 months. This was in June I believe and the agent told me to keep my spending under $20K until then and the spending would carry over to the plantium. He told me if I went over $20K and they gave me the mileage boost they wouldn't count previous spending since Am Ex already gave a bonus on it. I took his advice and the spending from the gold card did count towards the platnium spending.

ck8

Since there is not spending boost on the Gold Card anymore I am guessing that I should be good then?

jamesteroh

Unless things have changed from last year, you should get 10K MQM's if you spend another $3k by year end, in addition to the 5K MQM or whatever MQM promo they have for new platnium cards (they should give you the sign up mqms).

I would call Am Ex just to make sure. Your account number should stay the same and they will send you a new card.