What to do with bonus MQMs
Aug 29, 2012, 12:10 pm
#1
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What to do with bonus MQMs
Wife is Silver through February 2014 because she has earned just over 25,000 MQMs this year. I'm Gold and will have about 68,000 MQMs by the end of the year.
We have a 15,000 MQM bonus coming next month when we hit a spend limit on the Delta Reserve card. I can keep it and make Platinum or give it to my wife and she'll roll over a bunch of miles toward making Silver again next year.
The timing is throwing me off. If I earn Platinum with the bonus this year, what can I give her for 2013 and/or 2014. Can I give her Gold for 2013 (one step up from what she already has)? Or, can I give her Silver for 2014 or is that not allowed because I won't be Platinum anymore by then (probably)? Other than not being allowed to rollover MQMs, is there any downside to gifted status versus earned status?
Any advice?
We have a 15,000 MQM bonus coming next month when we hit a spend limit on the Delta Reserve card. I can keep it and make Platinum or give it to my wife and she'll roll over a bunch of miles toward making Silver again next year.
The timing is throwing me off. If I earn Platinum with the bonus this year, what can I give her for 2013 and/or 2014. Can I give her Gold for 2013 (one step up from what she already has)? Or, can I give her Silver for 2014 or is that not allowed because I won't be Platinum anymore by then (probably)? Other than not being allowed to rollover MQMs, is there any downside to gifted status versus earned status?
Any advice?
Aug 29, 2012, 12:13 pm
#2
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No you can't make her gold nor give her silver for 2014.
There is no difference between gifted status and earned status except rollover
There is no difference between gifted status and earned status except rollover
Aug 29, 2012, 12:18 pm
#3
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Wife is Silver through February 2014 because she has earned just over 25,000 MQMs this year. I'm Gold and will have about 68,000 MQMs by the end of the year.
We have a 15,000 MQM bonus coming next month when we hit a spend limit on the Delta Reserve card. I can keep it and make Platinum or give it to my wife and she'll roll over a bunch of miles toward making Silver again next year.
The timing is throwing me off. If I earn Platinum with the bonus this year, what can I give her for 2013 and/or 2014. Can I give her Gold for 2013 (one step up from what she already has)? Or, can I give her Silver for 2014 or is that not allowed because I won't be Platinum anymore by then (probably)? Other than not being allowed to rollover MQMs, is there any downside to gifted status versus earned status?
Any advice?
We have a 15,000 MQM bonus coming next month when we hit a spend limit on the Delta Reserve card. I can keep it and make Platinum or give it to my wife and she'll roll over a bunch of miles toward making Silver again next year.
The timing is throwing me off. If I earn Platinum with the bonus this year, what can I give her for 2013 and/or 2014. Can I give her Gold for 2013 (one step up from what she already has)? Or, can I give her Silver for 2014 or is that not allowed because I won't be Platinum anymore by then (probably)? Other than not being allowed to rollover MQMs, is there any downside to gifted status versus earned status?
Any advice?
Aug 29, 2012, 1:29 pm
#5
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Thanks for clarifying the benefits, all. I think I'll keep the bonus and make Platinum myself even though I now understand that it won't allow me to gift any special status to her. Instead, I'll give her next year's AMEX bonus so she can earn Silver again and I'll enjoy what will likely be my one and only year in the rarified air of Platinum status. I'm going to practice in front of a mirror saying, "Do you know who I am!?!," so I am prepared to deliver the line with maximum effect. (I'm kidding, of course.)
Aug 29, 2012, 2:08 pm
#6
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Thanks for clarifying the benefits, all. I think I'll keep the bonus and make Platinum myself even though I now understand that it won't allow me to gift any special status to her. Instead, I'll give her next year's AMEX bonus so she can earn Silver again and I'll enjoy what will likely be my one and only year in the rarified air of Platinum status. I'm going to practice in front of a mirror saying, "Do you know who I am!?!," so I am prepared to deliver the line with maximum effect. (I'm kidding, of course.)
Aug 30, 2012, 7:03 am
#9
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I hesitated to post this, but since I won't name names, why not. I got a PM from someone offering that if I would give him my bonus MQMs, he would gift my wife Silver. The offer makes no sense in light of my post -- if she had not been Silver already, why in the world would I want to give away Platinum to him so he could gift her Silver instead of making Platinum myself so I could gift her Silver? But what really caused me pause is this -- is this kind of horse trading among internet strangers really a common thing here? It's got to violate Delta rules so how would you ever be able to trust someone to follow through with no way of enforcing a deal Delta doesn't allow?