Originally Posted by timmy83 (Post 20059698)

Interestingly, all of this information has been entirely scrubbed from their website. There was a link for info for the 2014 program, which was broken, but is now MIA.

Yet another embarrassing flop for DL IT?

Originally Posted by blug (Post 20059523)

Poor hub captive, I really feel for you.



"Nowhere for people to run."? geez

What kind of consumer would applaud for negative changes of a product because the producer killed the competitions? You may want to go advocate that the antitrust law is dead wrong.

Originally Posted by mhop1027 (Post 20060348)

Or it will provide incentive for you to get an Amex or to move spend to Amex that you normally wouldn't. Not to say that everyone will, but I think this makes sense from an Amex/DL perspective.

Originally Posted by PNET (Post 20060291)

This is a step in the right direction but not enough - I'm all for status earned on the basis of revenue dollars and miles accrued/redeemed on the current non-revenue-linked basis. My problem is that if I buy five transcons in C for business (they average 3-3.5k each) and spend 15k but only fly 25k miles and earn 37.5k (with CoS MQM bonus) MQM, DL will still only give me silver. Meanwhile some kid or blogger with too much time on their hands will do 10 transcon MRs at $250/pop ($2.5k total) and earn Gold. Which customer is more valuable to the airline? Yet who is Gold and who is Silver? If airlines were smart, they'd change the status calculation or at least make the qualification based on miles flown OR dollars instead of AND.

Originally Posted by DL2SXM (Post 20060314)

So then did Delta think of what flyers like me will do who currently fly enough to earn at least 125K but who's spend threshold is low? If I know that I will only qualify for GM, or PM based on my MDS, then I will stop flying DL once I reach my MQM level and my MDS for that level and fly another airline. What inscentive do I have to stick with Delta between MDS levels if I know I will fall short of making DM?

Originally Posted by rylan (Post 20060207)

Guess I'm not seeing the part where SWUs would be more valuable. You need an M fare to use them, and now the 50% mqm bonus is gone. If they make M fares cheaper but make the SWU usable only on B+, then that only makes them even less valuable. B fares are quite a bit more than an M fare.

Originally Posted by bubbashow (Post 20060454)

I would argue that low-spend diamonds and plats are the flyers they are trying to encourage to fly other airlines.

Originally Posted by pbarnette (Post 20059593)

Seriously, though, I think this is just an indication of how unimportant some of you are. I received a personal call from Richard Anderson earlier today, much as I do for all impending announcements.

Originally Posted by PNET (Post 20060291)

My problem is that if I buy five transcons in C for business (they average 3-3.5k each) and spend 15k but only fly 25k miles and earn 37.5k (with CoS MQM bonus) MQM, DL will still only give me silver. Meanwhile some kid or blogger with too much time on their hands will do 10 transcon MRs at $250/pop ($2.5k total) and earn Gold. .

Originally Posted by DL2SXM

So then did Delta think of what flyers like me will do who currently fly enough to earn at least 125K but who's spend threshold is low?.

Originally Posted by amolkold

Spend is the new loyalty..

Originally Posted by dieuwer2 (Post 20059911)

?

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Originally Posted by StayingHomeIsBetter (Post 20060404)

Or just a preemptive shot across the bow to judge reaction? :D

Originally Posted by ClipperDelta (Post 20060497)

Yes, actually they thought precisely of people like you..no offense, but seriously, getting to DM with a $5K spend??? That's like someone taking two deeply discounted S fares from JFK to Europe a year, and qualifying for Diamond? Sorry, but a DM who only spends $5K a year probably costs Delta more money than Delta makes from that DM!