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Old Dec 10, 2018, 7:21 am
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$29 from Medallion status - Need advice
I'm $29 away from qualifying for Silver Medallion. I have a short flight tomorrow that's booked with a Basic Economy fare. Delta won't allow Comfort+ updates with Basic Economy, but they do offer to give me a seat assignment if I pay $29.00. Does anybody know if a payment for a seat assignment would count as Medallion $? If so that would be just what I need to put me over the top.
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Old Dec 10, 2018, 7:45 am
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I'm $29 away from qualifying for Silver Medallion. I have a short flight tomorrow that's booked with a Basic Economy fare. Delta won't allow Comfort+ updates with Basic Economy, but they do offer to give me a seat assignment if I pay $29.00. Does anybody know if a payment for a seat assignment would count as Medallion $? If so that would be just what I need to put me over the top.
Preferred seat purchases are supposed to count towards MQD's according to the website. However, if the seat is just a regular non-preferred seat, it's not clear if that will count.
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Old Dec 10, 2018, 9:58 am
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Originally Posted by Orville
I'm $29 away from qualifying for Silver Medallion. I have a short flight tomorrow that's booked with a Basic Economy fare. Delta won't allow Comfort+ updates with Basic Economy, but they do offer to give me a seat assignment if I pay $29.00. Does anybody know if a payment for a seat assignment would count as Medallion $? If so that would be just what I need to put me over the top.
Flight credit is only given / posted after you fly — i.e. you’ll hit Silver once your flight is completed.
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Old Dec 10, 2018, 10:43 am
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Flight credit is only given / posted after you fly — i.e. you’ll hit Silver once your flight is completed.
I may be wrong but I think you missed the point. I think the OP will still be short $29 AFTER tomorrows flight.
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Old Dec 10, 2018, 11:04 am
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I may be wrong but I think you missed the point. I think the OP will still be short $29 AFTER tomorrows flight.
I think we need clarification from OP on this. He doesn't use future tense when referring to $29 shortage.
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 6:49 am
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Okay, this might be useful to other people in the same situation. I was $29 short of hitting my Silver Medallion $ threshold. I purchased a $29 add-on to my Basic Economy ticket which got me an early seating assignment. Note that this was not a bump up to Economy Comfort, because that's not available for Basic Economy class. I flew the flight on Saturday and today I got the notice that I had made it to Silver with $1 to spare. So, the plan worked!
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 6:55 am
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Originally Posted by Orville
Okay, this might be useful to other people in the same situation. I was $29 short of hitting my Silver Medallion $ threshold. I purchased a $29 add-on to my Basic Economy ticket which got me an early seating assignment. Note that this was not a bump up to Economy Comfort, because that's not available for Basic Economy class. I flew the flight on Saturday and today I got the notice that I had made it to Silver with $1 to spare. So, the plan worked!
Nice. I'd never want to cut it that close, but good job.
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 8:04 am
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Originally Posted by Orville
I'm $29 away from qualifying for Silver Medallion. I have a short flight tomorrow that's booked with a Basic Economy fare. Delta won't allow Comfort+ updates with Basic Economy, but they do offer to give me a seat assignment if I pay $29.00. Does anybody know if a payment for a seat assignment would count as Medallion $? If so that would be just what I need to put me over the top.
Are you $29 short counting the MQDs you're going to earn from tomorrow's flight or $29 short right now? Because the MQDs from tomorrow's flight haven't posted yet and won't post until you actually fly it.
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 8:17 am
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Originally Posted by Orville
Okay, this might be useful to other people in the same situation. I was $29 short of hitting my Silver Medallion $ threshold. I purchased a $29 add-on to my Basic Economy ticket which got me an early seating assignment. Note that this was not a bump up to Economy Comfort, because that's not available for Basic Economy class. I flew the flight on Saturday and today I got the notice that I had made it to Silver with $1 to spare. So, the plan worked!
Hitting the MQD requirement by one dollar is almost perfect. Congrats!
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 10:17 am
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Originally Posted by yohanson
Hitting the MQD requirement by one dollar is almost perfect. Congrats!
about the only way to make it better would be to hit the threshold on a 31 Dec flight
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 11:30 am
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Just did an overnight mileage run to MCO last weekend to keep my medallion status and was sweating a 200 MQM difference. This gives me hope for the next time, but man this was close! Well Done! ^
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 12:37 pm
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Originally Posted by jrl767
about the only way to make it better would be to hit the threshold on a 31 Dec flight
Wouldn't it be better to hit it on January 1 so that you could effectively have 25 months of medallion status?
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by iflyalexair
Wouldn't it be better to hit it on January 1 so that you could effectively have 25 months of medallion status?
huh? only way that would work is if you’re rolling over a huge amount of MQMs
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 5:56 pm
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Originally Posted by jrl767

huh? only way that would work is if you’re rolling over a huge amount of MQMs
There's also the MQD/AmEx sapend requirement, which would be hard to do in one day unless someone has the foreign address waiver.
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Old Dec 21, 2018, 9:05 am
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Originally Posted by jrl767

huh? only way that would work is if you’re rolling over a huge amount of MQMs
Yeah, it isn't really possible. I guess the point I'm making is that it's better to earn the status closest to Jan 1 as opposed to Dec 31st.
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