xliioper

Sounds like the renewal fee and a few other items (probably some vendor credits back to your card). Non-qualifying spend is included in the year-end summary online which is why you need to be careful about using that number if you are close. It also does not subtract out vendor credits (it only shows the total charges). The paper and online PDF statements should have the official number on the "Miles Earned for Eligible Purchases" line with the Year to Date number (shown above). Unfortunately, you need to do some math to the get year end total from previous year (subtract Year to Date from Current Period earn in January statement when it arrives and then add that amount to the Year to Date in your December statement). As you already surmised, the safest thing is simply not to cut it too close.

I cut it pretty close in 2018 and didn't get second Reserve Boost until January after passing $60K in late December after December statement close. My total charges for 2018 show 62,087 online, but when I use method above to get qualifying spend for 2018 it was only 60813. If I subtract the $450 annual fee (my only non-qualifying spend) and vendor credits in 2018 from that 62,087 number I get within 5 dollars of the 60813 qualifying spend number (likely due to Amex rounding up to a whole mile on the mileage credit for each month).

MSPeconomist

With some rounding, the difference could be the annual fee, which does *not* count for spend.

xliioper

Plus, you also need to subtract out any vendor credits during the year from the "Total Charges" year-end totals online (or the "Total Spend" in your year-end summary) as those are not reflected in those numbers (as I mentioned above).

Adelphos

Yeah - I did subtract out vendor credits, but I forgot to take into account the annual fee.

This year, the goal has changed - $60,000 of spend on my Reserve by November. Not sure if I will keep both my Platinum and Reserve cards going forward

jordyn

Just as a data point for future readers--my boost seems to have finally posted over the weekend, so about three weeks after my statement closing date and (fortunately) shortly before I dropped back down to Platinum.

Steve007NY

My (Medallion level changing) boost posted Saturday. Whew!

DL Platinum

Delta Reserve Card. Bonus points posted the day after my statement closing date. (That's the last time that will happen as they've done away with the bonus miles moving forward). "Bonus" MQM's must be selected via this link: https://www.delta.com/acctactvty/mbrLanding.action

MSPeconomist

This hasn't been updated to reflect the third 15,000 MQMs at $90,000 spend.

badgerchemist

Exact same situation here for both reserve and platinum AmEx spending bonuses. Paid a truckload of taxes to knock out all the bonuses before the end of the month, and cannot get a straight answer from AmEx or Delta since none of these have posted (yet the MQD waiver spend is updated correctly).

mtp

It’s not yet January 30th

kobyjones21

How do you find the landing page my navigating the site? I have followed the link in the above posts but wondering how I could get there starting at Delta's main page. Thanks.

Also is there a separate page for the Delta Plat card?

xliioper

I don't believe there are any links to the MQM Boost selection page on Delta's website (search yields nothing). The selection page only applies to Reserve cardholders as the Platinum card does not let you select an alternate recipient for the MQM Boost (the Boost deposit occurs automatically).

kobyjones21

Thanks! Waiting for Delta to post my MQM boosts via Delta biz Plat. I'm impatient.