Sep 26, 2017, 1:09 pm
Last edit by: Renes Points
On 26SEPT17 Delta changed the MQD AMEX exempt requirements. $25,000 only exempts you to Platinum or lower. $250,000 spend needed across ALL the DL AMEX cards you hold (personal and business in your name) for Diamond exemption for 2019 elite year.
If all you are interested in is the discussion starting when the announcement occurred on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, start here.
The Delta announcement is here https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/skymiles/news-and-updates.html
There are many data points that Delta will allow a one time exception under the 2017 qualification rules if you request this for the 2019 Medallion year.
If all you are interested in is the discussion starting when the announcement occurred on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, start here.
The Delta announcement is here https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/skymiles/news-and-updates.html
There are many data points that Delta will allow a one time exception under the 2017 qualification rules if you request this for the 2019 Medallion year.
Delta increasing Diamond MQD Waiver to $250,000
Mar 7, 2018, 1:25 pm
#1546
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 171
If someone has both a business and personal reserve and platinum and they go for the max mqm spends like I have done in the past it requires 220K in spend so this is only requiring an additional $30K in spend but Delta has slashed the value of skymiles so much it doesn't seem worth it. That would amount to 350,000 total skymiles if someone receives the boost from both cards (250K in spend and the 100K in mileage boosts). If there was inventory available on the routes I wanted for GUC it could be worth it's hard to find international flights that a GUC will clear on and last year I sat in coach on a couple flights I had RUC's waitlisted on.
Mar 7, 2018, 3:11 pm
#1547
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.....and he can max out on MQMs from AmEx so as to keep his rollover as high as possible for future years.
Mar 7, 2018, 3:57 pm
#1548
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Gate Agent announcement: Good afternoon. Welcome to flight 1234 to Atlanta. We are currently welcoming our PREMium zone passengers, which includes . . .
First Class passengers, Diamond Medallions, and "Platinums who were Diamond" before the Amex waiver was JACKED UP!!!
Mar 7, 2018, 4:04 pm
#1549
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Ditto here on the Platinum, but, the one perk I'm REALLLLLLLLY gonna miss, is, PREM boarding. So, I was thinking . . . . It doesn't cost DL anything, so, maybe, they could do some sort of a consolation prize . . . like . . . .
Gate Agent announcement: Good afternoon. Welcome to flight 1234 to Atlanta. We are currently welcoming our PREMium zone passengers, which includes . . .
First Class passengers, Diamond Medallions, and "Platinums who were Diamond" before the Amex waiver was JACKED UP!!!
Gate Agent announcement: Good afternoon. Welcome to flight 1234 to Atlanta. We are currently welcoming our PREMium zone passengers, which includes . . .
First Class passengers, Diamond Medallions, and "Platinums who were Diamond" before the Amex waiver was JACKED UP!!!
Mar 7, 2018, 4:10 pm
#1550
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Posts: 15,408
So, it could be called - -
Platinum +
or
SuperPlatinum???
Mar 7, 2018, 4:52 pm
#1552
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: HSV
Programs: Bellevue Lifetime Premiere Mega Elite Supreme
Posts: 1,509
Not a few of us spend the money anyway. Sadly, we’ll put >$500K on our AMEX Reserve *and* well eclipse the $15K MQD requirement by a factor of 2 or more, but we get nothing for it save the deluge of Sky Pesos they bestow upon we mere mortals. We won’t even get the mystical 360 phone call.
Tangent... met my first 360 fellow passenger minutes ago at RDU. He’s in his 2nd year and had the 360 brag tag, which sucked me in like a supermassive black hole.
I didn’t even know they had a 360 tag.
Dare to dream.
Tangent... met my first 360 fellow passenger minutes ago at RDU. He’s in his 2nd year and had the 360 brag tag, which sucked me in like a supermassive black hole.
I didn’t even know they had a 360 tag.
Dare to dream.
Mar 7, 2018, 6:35 pm
#1553
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Mar 7, 2018, 7:12 pm
#1554
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Mar 7, 2018, 7:18 pm
#1555
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Mar 7, 2018, 7:55 pm
#1556
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NYC, MSY
Programs: DL DM, 1.5MM, NEXUS, Sky Club Lifetime, Admirals Club Lifetime, LowValueCustomer everywhere
Posts: 6,447
Ditto here on the Platinum, but, the one perk I'm REALLLLLLLLY gonna miss, is, PREM boarding. So, I was thinking . . . . It doesn't cost DL anything, so, maybe, they could do some sort of a consolation prize . . . like . . . .
Gate Agent announcement: Good afternoon. Welcome to flight 1234 to Atlanta. We are currently welcoming our PREMium zone passengers, which includes . . .
First Class passengers, Diamond Medallions, and "Platinums who were Diamond" before the Amex waiver was JACKED UP!!!
Gate Agent announcement: Good afternoon. Welcome to flight 1234 to Atlanta. We are currently welcoming our PREMium zone passengers, which includes . . .
First Class passengers, Diamond Medallions, and "Platinums who were Diamond" before the Amex waiver was JACKED UP!!!
Mar 7, 2018, 7:59 pm
#1557
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Mar 7, 2018, 8:09 pm
#1558
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Mar 7, 2018, 8:14 pm
#1559
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 8
Not hard to get DM
I don't know why all you think DM is so hard to get with the new requirements. Lemme break down how easy it is and you will see how it benefits delta and amex .
Get a delta reserve and plat delta amex card. Spend 110k combined on those cards and get 50k mqms. Now spend just 15k on an amex plat card only needing to earn 75k mqms and get 5x the points. Just fly from the USA to Japan once and SIN and you're covered as long as you fly domestic normal.
Last year flew the first delta a350 to NRT and back with a 1:50 layover to keep DM. This year going to SIN with a 5:45 layover .Why, to easily keep my DM .
Get a delta reserve and plat delta amex card. Spend 110k combined on those cards and get 50k mqms. Now spend just 15k on an amex plat card only needing to earn 75k mqms and get 5x the points. Just fly from the USA to Japan once and SIN and you're covered as long as you fly domestic normal.
Last year flew the first delta a350 to NRT and back with a 1:50 layover to keep DM. This year going to SIN with a 5:45 layover .Why, to easily keep my DM .