My wife is about five minutes away from hitting DM all on her own this year, entirely through flying with me on international trips so we can spend some time together in between work. She’s over $20K in MQD, with about 3K MQM to go, which she’ll do this week.

I wasn’t really thinking about it, but there are some great benefits to having your spouse / significant other also hitting DM. Double RUCs and GUCs obviously, but now I don’t have to gift Gold, and since we both have AXR cards, we can guest the whole band into the SC.

It also made me curious into just how common it is for couples to both achieve DM status together.

So, how many here are both DMs? It would seem fairly unusual, but that’s just a guess.

Mrs. BenA and I are another example of a double diamond couple for a few years running now. She naturally made platinum easily, but we pushed toward diamond for a few reasons - mostly, because at the time we made the decision companions weren’t eligible for C+ upgrades at booking, and we weren’t willing to fly Y internationally without a guarantee of decent seats. But also, I didn’t want to share my GUCs

It’s a little frustrating that the new companion policies have made it basically irrelevant for both of us to have status when traveling together. But the privileges when flying separately are still nice (she’s gotten huge value out of coterminal SDC alone), and we’ve been treated very, very well by customer service when calling in for assistance with joint itineraries.

My advice to you as double diamond is to split all your reservations and book separately. There’s zero benefit to being on the same PNR, and it could be an active detriment in some cases (like if you could potentially be eligible for op-ups but only one seat is available.). If you want, you can always call in to link your reservations after the fact (or book separately and call to split).

I would guess it isn’t as rare as you might think. Both my wife and I are DM. Why, well we both work, we live in the same city dominated by the same airline, we both travel a fair amount for work, we go on vacation together, all of our commonality is probably somewhat common for a married couple

On FT, double DM used to mean someone with 250,000 MQMs (before there was the MQD requirement). Triple DM was 375,000 MQMs.

Thanks for saving me some typing. I’m in exactly this situation. I fly around 75,000 miles a year with my wife and son, but that’s all the flying they do. I fly around 100,000 additional miles a year for work, and because of that my wife cannot do business travel.

Mrs Lewis42 and I are both senator (Lufthansa) through travel for work. We then use our miles for holidays normally.

I am yet to find the real benefit of this.

Well then... I just hit Triple DM this month. I doubt I’ll hit Quad DM this year, unlike Don and our other 1MM MQM fellow that posted a couple of weeks ago.

Dare to dream.

My wife’s DM is all on leisure travel. She retired on her 40th birthday over a decade ago. Now she’s just a lowly family farmer.

We are both DM MM, both about to hit 2 MM