Delta Removes Global Entry Voucher from Choice Benefits as of Today (2/21/2019)
Feb 21, 2019, 11:28 am
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Delta Removes Global Entry Voucher from Choice Benefits as of Today (2/21/2019)
Ran across this while looking for something else this morning. Doesn't really affect me because my wife and I have always been on different renewal schedules
Diamond Medallion Members may continue to select three of the following Choice Benefit options:
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Global Entry Voucher as a Choice Benefit to be discontinued
Effective February 21, 2019, Global Entry vouchers will no longer be offered as a Choice Benefit option for Diamond and Platinum Medallion®Members.Diamond Medallion Members may continue to select three of the following Choice Benefit options:
- Global and Regional Upgrade Certificates
- Delta Sky Club® Membership
- 25,000 Bonus miles
- $200 Travel Voucher
- $200 Tiffany & Co. Gift Card
- Gift Gold Medallion Status
- Regional Upgrade Certificates
- 20,000 Bonus miles
- $200 Travel Voucher
- $200 Tiffany & Co. Gift Card
- Gift Silver Medallion Status
Learn more about Choice Benefits.
Feb 21, 2019, 11:33 am
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You can get a GE credit on the regular USA Plat AmEx charge card, so I wonder if perhaps this will be added as a Reserve card benefit.
It's a bit odd as the cost is only $100 or $200 for one or two people (PM and DM IIRC) versus the $200 gift cards (DL and IIRC Tiffany), where maybe there was a lot more breakage on the DL gift cards and DL might be getting a big discount from Tiffany since there are also some Tiffany MM gifts (and also some of us got the Tiffany flower bowl gift at the time of the merger).
It's a bit odd as the cost is only $100 or $200 for one or two people (PM and DM IIRC) versus the $200 gift cards (DL and IIRC Tiffany), where maybe there was a lot more breakage on the DL gift cards and DL might be getting a big discount from Tiffany since there are also some Tiffany MM gifts (and also some of us got the Tiffany flower bowl gift at the time of the merger).
Feb 21, 2019, 12:10 pm
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Join Date: Oct 2016
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My guess is it just got so little usage it wasn’t worth their time to administer as a benefit. How many high-level medallions can there be who don’t have a travel card already offering this? And it’s only going to be chosen every several years, and is of obviously lower value than most of the other options.
Feb 21, 2019, 1:07 pm
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Either that or the Government is so slow with renewals and new approvals since the shutdown that DL was tired of hearing about it from folks who could not get enrolled or renewed in a timely manner.
My online renewal for Trusted Traveler from early December is still pending.
Alert at ttp.dbp.dhs.gov....
The extended partial government shutdown has resulted in a substantial backlog of CBP's Trusted Traveler Programs (TTP) applications and renewals.
Applicants for Global Entry (GE), SENTRI, NEXUS and FAST should expect significant delays in application processing times and limited appointment availability at TTP enrollment centers.
Conditionally approved GE members should seek to complete their GE interviews without an appointment upon arrival from an international flight at any of the 49 airports participating in CBP's Enrollment on Arrival (EoA) program.
My online renewal for Trusted Traveler from early December is still pending.
Alert at ttp.dbp.dhs.gov....
The extended partial government shutdown has resulted in a substantial backlog of CBP's Trusted Traveler Programs (TTP) applications and renewals.
Applicants for Global Entry (GE), SENTRI, NEXUS and FAST should expect significant delays in application processing times and limited appointment availability at TTP enrollment centers.
Conditionally approved GE members should seek to complete their GE interviews without an appointment upon arrival from an international flight at any of the 49 airports participating in CBP's Enrollment on Arrival (EoA) program.
Feb 21, 2019, 3:23 pm
#7
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Feb 21, 2019, 3:44 pm
#8
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Feb 21, 2019, 4:26 pm
#9
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Wait until that one bad lineup with hundreds of people coming off international flights at the same time and you are exhausted and you will apply. It just takes that one bad experience.
Feb 21, 2019, 6:07 pm
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Feb 21, 2019, 6:26 pm
#11
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I would give Delta kudos for axing the Global Entry voucher, but I doubt it was based on any principle given how in bed Delta is in general with the DHS.
Last edited by ethernal; Feb 21, 2019 at 6:31 pm
Feb 21, 2019, 6:56 pm
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Feb 21, 2019, 7:09 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Atlanta
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Some people have more pride than that and believe strongly in classical liberalism. I too am a non-pre/GE Diamond and I would wait in line for days before actively supporting a system that creates special privileges for those that meet an arbitrary risk score output by a secret algorithm using inputs that may or may be right with no process for judicial review. It is no better than the Chinese social credit system that is rightfully mocked in the US.
I would give Delta kudos for axing the Global Entry voucher, but I doubt it was based on any principle given how in bed Delta is in general with the DHS.
I would give Delta kudos for axing the Global Entry voucher, but I doubt it was based on any principle given how in bed Delta is in general with the DHS.
Feb 21, 2019, 7:28 pm
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