Delta 360 - Consolidated Thread
Feb 5, 2019, 11:29 am
#151
Join Date: Feb 2019
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When you live in DTW area you just don't have that many great flight options so Delta is the go to airline. I have been traveling on Delta for >20yr and have ~2.5M actual flight miles. I have read flyer talk forums for some time, but never posted. I was so excited to finally get 360 that I registered on FT forum just so I could post and tell someone other than my wife! (sad, but true). This makes 2 posts now.
Feb 5, 2019, 11:32 am
#152
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When you live in DTW area you just don't have that many great flight options so Delta is the go to airline. I have been traveling on Delta for >20yr and have ~2.5M actual flight miles. I have read flyer talk forums for some time, but never posted. I was so excited to finally get 360 that I registered on FT forum just so I could post and tell someone other than my wife! (sad, but true). This makes 2 posts now.
Congratulations and welcome, from another hub captive.
Feb 5, 2019, 12:08 pm
#153
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When you live in DTW area you just don't have that many great flight options so Delta is the go to airline. I have been traveling on Delta for >20yr and have ~2.5M actual flight miles. I have read flyer talk forums for some time, but never posted. I was so excited to finally get 360 that I registered on FT forum just so I could post and tell someone other than my wife! (sad, but true). This makes 2 posts now.
Feb 5, 2019, 1:34 pm
#155
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 5
Yes, when you call the automated voice still says you have reached the Delta Diamond Medallion line, welcome back "Your Name," I'll connect you with a representative. When the live rep comes on they say "Welcome to the Delta 360 line"
Feb 5, 2019, 1:40 pm
#156
Join Date: Feb 2019
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I know! International tickets originating DTW are always the most $$$. Destination matters too. Often round trip Delta One from DTW to Seoul are $4,000 - $6,000. Round trip DTW to Tokyo in Delta One are almost always $8,000 to $12,000. Much cheaper to book round trip to Seoul and then take inter-Asia flights on another carrier like Korean Air between Seoul and Tokyo.
Feb 5, 2019, 7:00 pm
#157
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: HSV
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I would say it’s much closer to 700 than 7000. There are ~40K 2019 Diamonds, down from ~60K in 2018. I don’t believe more than 2-3% of DMs are 360.
So, while it may be over 700 (which doesn’t seem unreasonable to me), I don’t believe it’s over 1500-2000, tops.
So, while it may be over 700 (which doesn’t seem unreasonable to me), I don’t believe it’s over 1500-2000, tops.
Feb 5, 2019, 7:29 pm
#158
Join Date: Feb 2019
Programs: DL D, UA 1k, Mar T
Posts: 82
Does Home Airport Matter?
Question in subject.
I'm diamond and flew 19k mqm and 9.9k mqd in January. Want to make 360. Fly out of LGA, JFK,BDL, and BOS with regularity.
Does DAL care what I list as my home airport? Should I care in my pursuit of 360?
I'm diamond and flew 19k mqm and 9.9k mqd in January. Want to make 360. Fly out of LGA, JFK,BDL, and BOS with regularity.
Does DAL care what I list as my home airport? Should I care in my pursuit of 360?
Feb 5, 2019, 7:47 pm
#159
Join Date: Feb 2017
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What's your source for the Diamond figures?
And we're forgetting people who are comped 360 - I imagine that is a non-trivial group (it costs Delta very little to give 360 status to people who don't fly often).
Feb 5, 2019, 8:20 pm
#160
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC/ EWR/ PHL
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Feb 5, 2019, 8:43 pm
#161
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: USA
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Feb 5, 2019, 9:00 pm
#162
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Location: LAX, BOS, and Seat 1A
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Home/preferred airport is mainly used in targeted marketing campaigns, along with address. For the sake of 360 qualification, they look at which major markets your travel originates and/or ends in. If most of your O&D travel is out of the NYC area, you'll have a harder time getting 360 than, say, someone whose travel overwhelming originates in Denver (where DL elites are fewer, and where UA has a fortress).
Feb 5, 2019, 10:33 pm
#163
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Look at my username. I'm MSP based.
I don't like to go through ORD currently because of hassles in getting to/from the international terminal there and I hate the transborder areas at Canadian airports (usually with no lounges, so you're stuck waiting in a holding pen) including the preclearance mess, but I have flown creatively from other airports: RDU during the old four cities double MQM promo and recently again from there for a good D1 fare and from LAX for a good D1 RT fare to EZE maybe five years ago. IIRC there was also some international trip where I originated from LGA; this could have been EZE also. Then there was some D1 fare to Asia from PHX that I attempted to use during the big August DL computer meltdown, where DL rebooked me across two tickets to avoid PHX outbound when I phoned from the car on the way to the airport, having heard about the meltdown on CNN just as I was leaving home to go fore my first flight.
I'm willing to do this for a big enough fare difference (of course after calculating additional expenses such as one or two hotel nights at the cheaper airport) if I can spare the time to book an "overnight connection" between the tickets, at least on the outbound portion. However, I'm always careful to fly all segments, including the last one, and I allow lots and lots of time for the "connection" between tickets.
I don't like to go through ORD currently because of hassles in getting to/from the international terminal there and I hate the transborder areas at Canadian airports (usually with no lounges, so you're stuck waiting in a holding pen) including the preclearance mess, but I have flown creatively from other airports: RDU during the old four cities double MQM promo and recently again from there for a good D1 fare and from LAX for a good D1 RT fare to EZE maybe five years ago. IIRC there was also some international trip where I originated from LGA; this could have been EZE also. Then there was some D1 fare to Asia from PHX that I attempted to use during the big August DL computer meltdown, where DL rebooked me across two tickets to avoid PHX outbound when I phoned from the car on the way to the airport, having heard about the meltdown on CNN just as I was leaving home to go fore my first flight.
I'm willing to do this for a big enough fare difference (of course after calculating additional expenses such as one or two hotel nights at the cheaper airport) if I can spare the time to book an "overnight connection" between the tickets, at least on the outbound portion. However, I'm always careful to fly all segments, including the last one, and I allow lots and lots of time for the "connection" between tickets.
Feb 6, 2019, 4:58 am
#164
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Florida
Programs: Delta Diamond 360, AA Platinum for Life, Marriott Platinum Premier for Life, United Platinum, Hertz
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On Feb 1 I also got my D360 for the fourth year in a row. I was a bit worried because my spend dropped a lot last year because I had very little international travel last year.
I would expect that the 360 membership numbers must be at least as high as CK or GS.
Personally to me the whole program has been a disappointment. The benefits are nowhere near as good as GS, and even the white glove service is not close to the level I used to get from AA as a Concierge Key member. Plus with the devaluation and decontenting of the Diamond program, you are now less likely to be upgraded as a Diamond 360 than as an Exec Plat at AA.
I wish Atlanta had a second hub airline TBH.
I would expect that the 360 membership numbers must be at least as high as CK or GS.
Personally to me the whole program has been a disappointment. The benefits are nowhere near as good as GS, and even the white glove service is not close to the level I used to get from AA as a Concierge Key member. Plus with the devaluation and decontenting of the Diamond program, you are now less likely to be upgraded as a Diamond 360 than as an Exec Plat at AA.
I wish Atlanta had a second hub airline TBH.