xliioper

You need to be more specific as it's not quite clear what type of ticket you are talking about. Miles + Cash tickets are basically award tickets (you are purchasing supplemental miles for an award and they earn no MQM's) and likely do not count. Pay with Miles tickets are essentially revenue tickets and earn MQM's and will likely count.

rune87

I thought Miles+ Cash did earn as you've made a cash basis payment, whereas a full Mile ticket did not as it was a "reward" ticket. It's been a few years since I've been at Delta do I seriously need to relearn all the rules

solewalker

You're not using a mileage redemption. You're using the miles as a form of currency to pay for a cash ticket. The last time I used it was something like 10k skymiles = $100. There's a fixed $/mile in that case. Straight up mileage redemptions don't count.

xliioper

You are both confusing Miles+Cash with Pay With Miles (PWM). These are two very different programs which is why I stated more specificity was needed. Miles+Cash tickets are absolutely award tickets and do not earn any MQM's. You are actually buying miles (at around .02 per mile) in addition to using your own miles to cover the mileage cost of an award ticket. What you are describing is Pay With Miles, not Miles+Cash. With Pay With Miles, you are exchanging miles for cash (at .01 per mile) to offset the cost of a revenue ticket and it earns MQMs as a revenue ticket (although this wasn't always the case). You need to be logged into your account (under Personal profile) to use the Pay With Miles option as it is only available to DL Amex cardholders.

Miles + Cash

Pay With Miles

jasonvr

So I stumbled into this. I was submitting for the standard status match based on WN A-List Preferred. They finally responded on 10/17 stating they needed more information (a statement showing previous activity which WN doesn't have). I submitted as much info as I could and waited. The first flight I wanted the status for was on 10/20 (which I told them) and it didn't come in before then. On 10/21 I got an email telling me I was now Platinum with the 4 RT/8 OW requirement to keep it. Quite surprised by that until I found this thread. On the return on 10/23 I got pre-upgraded to C+ on the first leg and got a battlefield C+ upgrade on the second leg.

Now I have no idea if the outbound counts or not. I was flown after I submitted, but comp status didn't come in until after. And it was an OJ (SNA-RIC-ONT) booked as multicity. The terms only state that flights must be completed by 3/31/21. There is no start date...

sydneyracquelle

PWM is only available to DL Amex cardholders most of the people who are elites on other airlines but who are not DL elites will not have.

danny247

Gonna try this out. I did a status match two years ago, and just finished a Reclaim My Status challenge for Platinum (but I was only able to fly enough to keep Silver).

I wasn't targeted, but gonna try this anyway.

MSPeconomist

Three status matches/challenges in just tow years?????

WScottsdaleInsider

Received following response, submitted on Oct 19, heard back on Oct 24:

Thank you for your interest in the Delta Elevated Status Match Offer. Unfortunately, there was an issue with the credentials submitted, and we were not able to enroll you in the Elevated Status Match Offer just yet. If you would like to be reconsidered for this offer, please respond to this e-mail with:

1. A valid, current elite physical or digital membership card or credential with your name on it
AND
2. A statement showing your earned elite status with an airline and the corresponding activity with that airline that made you achieve that status with your name on it

As a reminder, you have until October 31, 2020 to resubmit proof of current elite status on a qualifying airline. Submissions received on or after November 1, 2020 will be processed as a standard Delta Status Match Challenge request.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and look forward to hearing from you so we can re-evaluate your submission.

xliioper

What did you submit for supporting documentation and what level are you on another airline?

AAir_head

That seems to hold normally; Delta appear to have changed something... /TLDR/ a week ago, I booked Thanksgiving travel (paid F) with DL principally because it was HALF the cost for a comparable itinerary on AA. Yeah, I do often pay more to stick with AA--but not double (and I don't usually see such a wide difference--normally only 5-15%; these are not normal times...). Yesterday, the thought struck to Google "Delta status match"--the hit for delta.com went to the "targeted" promo. I noted the fine print and definitely did not get an e-mail (I looked, and am pretty good about screening junk/spam before deleting so don't think it got missed if sent). So I submitted my AA PRO card and a screen shot of my account summary and am waiting to see what happens.

Ditto--as noted above, a Google search for DL status match took me right to it.

Interesting--as noted above, not my experience. I am a SkyMiles "Member" but not at all active--can't remember the last time I flew DL but have had about a 12k mileage balance for quite awhile. Perhaps I was "screened in" as a result of recently booking with DL?

I got the same e-mail; since my request was submitted on a Saturday 5 business days seemed reasonable enough. Instantaneous doesn't seem likely--DL is almost certainly going to want to review each match to some reasonable extent.

Thank you for sharing! Three business days seems a very reasonable turn-around, and it's good to see at least one data point that DL is not taking a really long time to make a decision and notify.

As a side note to those upset about the status match--I doubt this will affect you all that much. I'm an AA MM/LTG and current PRO living in an AA "focus city", so switching exclusively to DL is probably not going to happen--the status match was there, so I took it...mainly for IROPS and priority boarding (probably not necessary in paid F, but it can't hurt) and to have in hand as a fallback if DL continues to present a better value for my travel needs into next year.

cheers and happy travels!

bigcahonna

Has anybody been able to apply for this without receiving an e-mail invite and just by using the link in the original post? I am getting an error message when I try submitting the form

TomMM

yes

xliioper

You are missing the point. They aren't going to target active Skymiles members. The whole point is attracting those who are active with other airlines in competitive markets. As someone who is a DL Plat based in DTW, I have no doubt they are using cookies to exclude me from these ads. You are based in DC which would be considered a competitive market by DL and thus likely a target of the ads.

AAir_head

I misread your first post about targeting as targeting the offer; I can see the cookies affecting the in-browser ads. So clear your cookies and log in from a competitive market...unless you're an "active" SkyMiler, in which case I guess you're SOL. Clearly DL are looking for *new* customers to fleece, er, serve

cheers!