Zorak

Getting a jump on the "when will rollover post" thread

As posted on the DL site under SkyMiles News & Updates

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copying from last year's FT thread wiki:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...on-thread.html

MCO Flyer

The past few years, DL has posted in advance when the rollover will start on their website so takes the fun out of guessing/speculating.

xliioper

Somewhat less complicated this year as any late posting MQM's can just be added to total and they don't have to worry about a 2020 status bump potential reducing rollover amount (as can happen in normal years).

allseas1586

Any idea if there will be MQD reductions for 2021? I love all these rollover MQM, but it is going to be hard to get the MQD to go along with it, given international business travel is at a halt and will be for most if not all of 2021.

Zorak

Plenty of speculation in the status extension thread: DL to Extend Status to Feb-2022 due to COVID 19 (Consolidated Thread)

but I doubt anyone who officially knows (if they have even decided) would leak it before any official announcement

The Situation

Nothing has been announced and I am not really sure why not, unless DL is trying to encourage all their customers to switch to competitors. Competitors have all made announcements reducing their status requirements and the lack of certainty of what DL is going to do or not going to do during this this time of great uncertainty is really a slap in the face. It appears the strategy of chasing customers to competitors is working, as it was reported yesterday (can't find the article now) that there was an internal email stating that Ed was surprised to see a significant drop in bookings and market share at DL for Q1 travel. Not too much of a surprise to me.

rogo

It's already working on me... I booked JetBlue instead of Delta because without clarity on the MQD change... I have no real way of knowing whether I will be Diamond again.

I have a second trip I'll likely book this week (for travel in February)... also will book JetBlue.

sydneyracquelle

With covid and reduced international travel there is a massive gap between PM and DM. PM can easily be achieved with $25,000 of 2021 Amex spend and 75,000 of MQMs combined in 2020 and 2021. As of now to achieve DM you need $250,000 of Amex spend or $15,000 of MQDs. The MQDs are usually achievable with some international travel but with this curtailed my 2021 strategy will be to easily get PM and then focus on status with AA and/or Southwest.

MSPeconomist

However, with MQD requirements and waivers being reset on January 1st, for someone trying to move up in status, getting the MQMs credited to 2020 rather than 2021 can make a big difference. The sooner those MQMs are credited (for 2020), the sooner the person can start enjoying the new status, assuming they're traveling at all now.

beachmouse

I was the person in another thread wondering if Delta would comp me the 84 MQMs I’ll be short for GM at the end of the year but if I ask and they say ‘no’ then worst case I hit the credit card waiver at sone point in the summer and I probably wouldn’t be flying much before then anyways.

It’s going to be stupidly easy for me to hit PM in 2021 and honestly I don’t deserve it because I’m so not a high value customer- I’m just a middle class mouse with a credit card and putting me in the same pool as the former DMs who couldn’t meet spend in 2021 is kind of an insult to actual HVCs

On the other hand, I’m not going to turn down what’s being offered and it’s making me more likely to view 2022 as an earn year instead of a burn year in case I can pull off keeping GM then so I guess Delta does get a token amount back for their pandemic response

MCO Flyer

Those who are actively spending and using one of DLs branded AMEX cards are probably some of DLs most profitable customers these days with premium business international traffic essentially at a halt. All of DLs promos during COVID up to this point have gone to DL AMEX Platinum and Reserve cardholders and I’d expect that to continue into next year.

lsquare

I was just going to create a thread, but you beat me to it by more than a week! I logged into my account and everything was reset to 0.

lsquare

I just cancelled my personal Delta Reserve card today. I only have the Delta Platinum Business and Delta Reserve Business cards left. With 3 cards in 2020, I put in a significant amount of spending. The promos have been great, but I wouldn't say it was really lucrative.

lsquare

I agree. Platinum isn't hard to achieve. I'm sort of surprised that Delta isn't making it any easier to reach Diamond given the fact that we're still in the middle of a pandemic. It's not like those global certificates will be any easier to use in 2021 (certainly in the first half of the year).

MCO Flyer

I think that there will be additional adjustments/promos to status for 2022 and DL is waiting to see how it all pans out. Ed has publicly came out today in a statement on the DL news hub expecting Q1 to be lost, with a possible recovery for business and more leisure travel returning in Q2 or Q3 depending on how quick the vaccine rollout gets to everyone and right now it’s looking slow process. With this being said, more adjustments will be made as this essentially throws out 25-50% of the year and they will make the adjustments when they know for sure how travel will look in Q3 and Q4.