New Third MQM Award Level for Reserve/Plat Cards (targeted)
#197
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: MCO
Programs: DL exDM MM
Posts: 762
Just received a notice that in addition to the existing 15K MQM awards for $30K in spending (one at $30K level, another at $60K level), there will be another 15K MQM award at $90K. Clicking to the website via the link, it says that this is "for 2018" which may indicate it's a one timer.
For the last three years my wife and I have each had Delta Reserve cards. We would use her's until the spend hit $60K. She would "gift" the Bonus MQMs to me. After we spent $120K we would start using another card. Those Bonus MQMs made it very easy to maintain my DM status, even as my BIS miles gradually declined. This year we switched after $30K spend on her card.
I am now have about 72K MQMs and about $25K spend on my card. Can easily qualify for PM, but I am seriously considering putting my card in the drawer, putting the next $35K on my Sapphire Reserve and not flying on Delta for the rest of the year. I have used Delta almost exclusively for nearly 20 years. Was GM for the first year or two, then PM and DM for the last 9 years. Old habits are hard to let go of, but the $250K waiver threshold is a deal breaker. And I won't let the targeted offer lure me into using the AX just to get a bunch of roll-over MQMs while I remain at DM.
#199
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Toledo, OH
Programs: Delta DM & MM, Hilton DM, Marriott gold, Hyatt Globalist, Alaska 75K, Wyndham Diamond,
Posts: 15,391
Why hasn't Am Ex taken down that page? Seems like a simple fix, especially since they aren't honoring the offer for non-targeted members.
#200
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Madison, WI (MSN)
Programs: Delta Platinum, Hilton & Marriott Plastic Gold, Chick-fil-A Signature
Posts: 441
I got it!
Spend last year: $60087 (+ fee)
Targeted with original email
Reminded in late August via email
Cleared $90k threshold earlier this month and put card in drawer
Statement closed yesterday
MQMs and RDMs posted to my account today
NOTE: posting was automatic there was no option so gift the MQMs to someone else as there is when crossing the other thresholds and no page on delta.com to make that choice.
Spend last year: $60087 (+ fee)
Targeted with original email
Reminded in late August via email
Cleared $90k threshold earlier this month and put card in drawer
Statement closed yesterday
MQMs and RDMs posted to my account today
NOTE: posting was automatic there was no option so gift the MQMs to someone else as there is when crossing the other thresholds and no page on delta.com to make that choice.
#202
Join Date: May 2010
Programs: Delta Kryptonium
Posts: 1,144
I got it!
Spend last year: $60087 (+ fee)
Targeted with original email
Reminded in late August via email
Cleared $90k threshold earlier this month and put card in drawer
Statement closed yesterday
MQMs and RDMs posted to my account today
NOTE: posting was automatic — there was no option so gift the MQMs to someone else as there is when crossing the other thresholds and no page on delta.com to make that choice.
Spend last year: $60087 (+ fee)
Targeted with original email
Reminded in late August via email
Cleared $90k threshold earlier this month and put card in drawer
Statement closed yesterday
MQMs and RDMs posted to my account today
NOTE: posting was automatic — there was no option so gift the MQMs to someone else as there is when crossing the other thresholds and no page on delta.com to make that choice.
#203
Join Date: Sep 2018
Programs: Skymiles
Posts: 9
MQM gifting
If I my wife throws me some MQMs are they just wasted if the goal is using them to secure Plat?
#204
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upper Sternistan
Posts: 9,980
If they didn't, what would be the point of gifting them?
#206
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: MSN
Programs: Delta DM, Bonvoy LT Titanium, Hertz PC
Posts: 1,987
Did anyone targeted for the 3rd MQM Boost get theirs early? As in before they qualified? I have a Delta Platinum Amex and received the promo in March, hit my first bonus May, second bonus in September and received a reminder about the third shortly after that. I just received the third but my records, Delta's SM spend tracker and my last Amex statement + new transactions all = $66.5K, so well short of the $75K required for the 3rd Plat boost. My statement closes on the 25th and my MQM's reliably post on the 27th but these posted on the 10th. My airfare is booked through EOY and I prefer to put my hotels on my Chase Ritz Visa if possible so I'd like to stop using it if this is going to stick. I'd also like to change paying my property taxes from Plastiq next month to the regular method to avoid those fees. Any thoughts on this? Or should I keep going to make sure I get and keep it?
#207
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC/ NJ
Programs: UA Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Explorist, Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum
Posts: 2,191
Just received a notice that in addition to the existing 15K MQM awards for $30K in spending (one at $30K level, another at $60K level), there will be another 15K MQM award at $90K. Clicking to the website via the link, it says that this is "for 2018" which may indicate it's a one timer.
#208
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: BNA
Programs: DL PM, SPG Plat
Posts: 49
Did anyone targeted for the 3rd MQM Boost get theirs early? As in before they qualified? I have a Delta Platinum Amex and received the promo in March, hit my first bonus May, second bonus in September and received a reminder about the third shortly after that. I just received the third but my records, Delta's SM spend tracker and my last Amex statement + new transactions all = $66.5K, so well short of the $75K required for the 3rd Plat boost. My statement closes on the 25th and my MQM's reliably post on the 27th but these posted on the 10th. My airfare is booked through EOY and I prefer to put my hotels on my Chase Ritz Visa if possible so I'd like to stop using it if this is going to stick. I'd also like to change paying my property taxes from Plastiq next month to the regular method to avoid those fees. Any thoughts on this? Or should I keep going to make sure I get and keep it?
#209
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: MSN
Programs: Delta DM, Bonvoy LT Titanium, Hertz PC
Posts: 1,987
Yes, I got my 3rd bonus early. No notification of anything, just showed up in my account when I was still about 8-9k short of 90k on the Reserve. Was tempted to stop but I figured it would be safest to keep going (and was also secretly hoping that it might trigger an accidental 4th bonus -- it didn't). Hard to say how to proceed, depends on your risk tolerance. For me I was really relying on the extra MQM boost this year so I wanted to be 100% sure my bases were covered.
#210
Moderator: Hyatt; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: WAS
Programs: :rolleyes:, DL DM, Mlife Plat, Caesars Diam, Marriott Tit, UA Gold, Hyatt Glob, invol FT beta tester
Posts: 18,819
IIRC there was an incident a few years (without the third boost promo) where a lot of people got an unexpected extra boost -- and there was speculation or a report that a batch job accidentally got run a second time or something like that. On my phone now, will try to dig up some thread pointer later unless someone beats me to it.
Anyway I wonder if that happened again (we'd probably need a few more data points first).
My recollection is that they subsequently reversed the "bonus".
Anyway I wonder if that happened again (we'd probably need a few more data points first).
My recollection is that they subsequently reversed the "bonus".
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