End of the year roll call
Dec 19, 2018, 11:03 am
#77
Join Date: Sep 2011
Programs: Delta DM, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,495
Dec 19, 2018, 1:54 pm
#78
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: LAX
Programs: Fallen DL DM (PM) 2MM
Posts: 4,783
Since I knew I wouldn't make the DM MQDs, my travel was scaled back a bit this year -- a couple of times I combined trips where in the past I would have made two separate trips. 95K MQMs, 20 MQS and 5K MQD. Zero Medallion upgrades for the year. Used 3 RUC between LAX/JFK and 3 GUCs over the water (have one of each left to use in Jan/Feb). The new Delta metal LAX-AMS turned my 2 and 3 hop trips into 1 or 2 hops so fewer domestic segments.
I am 100% leisure and pay for my own travel.
I am 100% leisure and pay for my own travel.
Dec 20, 2018, 7:27 am
#79
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: MEM
Programs: Starbucks Green Card
Posts: 5,431
MQM: 125,749
MQS: 119
MQD: $18,882
(rollover from last year: 218 MQM)
Window seats: 103
Aisle seats: 15 (6 due to upgrades, 9 due to IRROPS/SDS/SDC)
Middle seats: 1 (IRROPS)
of those 119 segments:
IRROPS rebookings: 18
SDC: 28
SDS: 8
RUCs used: 4 (all on MEM-SFO and v/v)
Excluding IRROPS/SDS/SDC segments and segments where I paid F, upgrade percentage was 79.4%
Upgrade percentage by paid class:
B: 100%
M: 100%
H: 81%
Q: 82%
K: 100%
L: 83%
U: 50%
T: 50%
MQS: 119
MQD: $18,882
(rollover from last year: 218 MQM)
Window seats: 103
Aisle seats: 15 (6 due to upgrades, 9 due to IRROPS/SDS/SDC)
Middle seats: 1 (IRROPS)
of those 119 segments:
IRROPS rebookings: 18
SDC: 28
SDS: 8
RUCs used: 4 (all on MEM-SFO and v/v)
Excluding IRROPS/SDS/SDC segments and segments where I paid F, upgrade percentage was 79.4%
Upgrade percentage by paid class:
B: 100%
M: 100%
H: 81%
Q: 82%
K: 100%
L: 83%
U: 50%
T: 50%
Dec 20, 2018, 11:58 am
#80
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: CT
Programs: DL DM 2MM, MR LTT, Hilton D, Hertz PC. National Emerald Exec, UA Silver(thanks to Marriott)
Posts: 2,026
You do know that spending 25k on Delta Amex is one of the medallion upgrade tie-breakers?
See:Priority Complimentary Upgrade Hierarchy - point 5 https://www.delta.com/content/www/en...-upgrades.html
See:Priority Complimentary Upgrade Hierarchy - point 5 https://www.delta.com/content/www/en...-upgrades.html
Dec 20, 2018, 1:25 pm
#81
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Look up - On a ✈ DELTA ✈ jet NOW!
Programs: Blogger & Delta Diamond Medallion Million Miler
Posts: 4,174
No. It has been confirmed by CORP that the spend waver for medallion upgrades tie-breaker remains at 25k for all medallion levels.
Dec 20, 2018, 1:47 pm
#82
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: HSV
Programs: Bellevue Lifetime Premiere Mega Elite Supreme
Posts: 1,509
Dec 20, 2018, 3:36 pm
#83
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: CHS
Programs: UA GS, Delta PM/2MM, Marriott Ambassador Elite/Lifetime Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 142
MQM: 125,749
MQS: 119
MQD: $18,882
(rollover from last year: 218 MQM)
Window seats: 103
Aisle seats: 15 (6 due to upgrades, 9 due to IRROPS/SDS/SDC)
Middle seats: 1 (IRROPS)
of those 119 segments:
IRROPS rebookings: 18
SDC: 28
SDS: 8
RUCs used: 4 (all on MEM-SFO and v/v)
Excluding IRROPS/SDS/SDC segments and segments where I paid F, upgrade percentage was 79.4%
Upgrade percentage by paid class:
B: 100%
M: 100%
H: 81%
Q: 82%
K: 100%
L: 83%
U: 50%
T: 50%
MQS: 119
MQD: $18,882
(rollover from last year: 218 MQM)
Window seats: 103
Aisle seats: 15 (6 due to upgrades, 9 due to IRROPS/SDS/SDC)
Middle seats: 1 (IRROPS)
of those 119 segments:
IRROPS rebookings: 18
SDC: 28
SDS: 8
RUCs used: 4 (all on MEM-SFO and v/v)
Excluding IRROPS/SDS/SDC segments and segments where I paid F, upgrade percentage was 79.4%
Upgrade percentage by paid class:
B: 100%
M: 100%
H: 81%
Q: 82%
K: 100%
L: 83%
U: 50%
T: 50%
Dec 20, 2018, 4:36 pm
#84
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Look up - On a ✈ DELTA ✈ jet NOW!
Programs: Blogger & Delta Diamond Medallion Million Miler
Posts: 4,174
Dec 21, 2018, 3:24 am
#85
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
Programs: DL Plat (won't hit DM again) 2MM (2.5), HH Gold, PC Gold, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 5,626
MQM: 135,793 including 38,021 rollover
MQS: 28
MQD: $16,563
Card: no AMEX spend
Travel included 2 partner trips for mileage based MQDs on low-fare business tickets. KL US to BUD and MU US to TPE.
Used 2 of 4 2017 RUCs.
MQS: 28
MQD: $16,563
Card: no AMEX spend
Travel included 2 partner trips for mileage based MQDs on low-fare business tickets. KL US to BUD and MU US to TPE.
Used 2 of 4 2017 RUCs.
Dec 21, 2018, 5:08 am
#86
Join Date: Oct 2017
Programs: Delta
Posts: 24
I'm particularly excited that my Card Spend category starts with $0. I used to spend $25k on this credit card just to hit the spend waiver, even though I also hit the MQD waiver. It was simply insurance. The last few years I'd hit the card waiver in July/ August, then the MQDs in about October. Now I've moved on from that and DL gets $0 from my AmEx spend. I kept the DL AmEx just for the companion ticket.
I do wonder how many DMs have held DM since they introduced it. This will be my 9th (?) year in a row as a DM, since whenever it was introduced.
430k of that MQM is rollover. So I guess I just skated by on that number as well (likely will hit the full 125k by my last flight this year).
I do wonder how many DMs have held DM since they introduced it. This will be my 9th (?) year in a row as a DM, since whenever it was introduced.
430k of that MQM is rollover. So I guess I just skated by on that number as well (likely will hit the full 125k by my last flight this year).
Dec 21, 2018, 8:20 am
#88
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: MEM
Programs: Starbucks Green Card
Posts: 5,431
Stuff I haven't been tracking that I will start tracking in 2019:
* runways
* delays
* whether upgrades clear at the window or at gate, how many people on the upgrade list and how many clear at the gate
Dec 21, 2018, 8:21 am
#89
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Minneapolis, formerly the shores of Lake Minnetonka
Programs: DL PM (and KM)
Posts: 394
That can't be the best use of $250k+ in card spend, can it? Clearly you don't need to hit the MQD waiver, so isn't there a better card out there you can put that spend on? Or maybe you just have $1MM plus in card spend a year and you're already doing that...
