JSprague24

I have no idea, but would be curious to hear opinions on this.

Here's where I am right now:
6000/25000 MQMs/12/20* Segments
$1119/$3000 MQDs/$12000/$25000 MQD waiver

The MQD waiver (Platinum Business Card) is going to be hit primarily through the purchase of construction materials for a new house, though there will be some airfare thrown in: at max, I have 2-3 more CMH-ATL-DAB r/ts and a CMH-XXX-SAN trip to go this year.

SuperG1955

MQMs. The CMH-ATL-DAB's are 6000 each the CMH-XXX-SAN is at least 6000 so that's between 18,000 and 24,000 plus the 6000 you have and the 12,500 for hitting $25,000 on the Platinum card gives you a total of 36,000+ to 42,000+ and the AMEX waiver. So you make FO and have 11,000- 17,000 rollover which makes it easy for you to do it again next year.

MSPeconomist

Yes. The waiver requires $25,000 spend or $250,000 spend for DM. You earn additional MQMs (12,500 this year) at $25,000 spend on the DL AmEx Plat card or $30,000 spend (note that it's more that the waiver amount) on the Reserve card, which would give you 18,750 (this year) to keep or gift.

MSPeconomist

The 12/20 segments seems to have a problem with the logic. You need to watch whether you're looking at numbers with or without the accelerator and be consistent.

If I understand correctly, since the accelerator started, you flew 8 actual segments, for which you received 12 MQSs due to the accelerator.

FO still requires 30 MQS. Here 30 - 12 = 18 MQS required yet to be earned after the accelerator is applied, which would mean 12 additional actual segments in most fare classes.

Alternatively, if you do the calculation for actual segments, assuming that all segments you fly earn the 50% accelerator bonus: 30 MQS/1.5 (or 150%) is 20 actual segments required for FO. You've already done 8, so 12 more actual segments (at 50% bonus) would be required.

beachmouse

I was thinking there might have been the rare case where the spend was split between two different AmEx Delta cards and then ended up triggering neither MQM bonus.

gooselee

Slightly OT but I've noticed if I ignore the call back (bc I can't answer or whatever) they will call back again 5-10 mins later. Not sure how many times they'll repeat that but it was handy the one time I was in a meeting for the callback.

Adam1222

They will call back one more time and only that one more time.

MSPeconomist

That's certainly possible, although for upgraded cards, the year to date spend can transfer over for MQM purposes too.

photojojo

Do the miles post after your trip? I just looked at a fall trip and it shows i can "earn" 15372 miles (with the Z fare multiplier) but nothing about the 75% multiplier for this program... There isn't some loophole where I had to register for it is there?

MCO Flyer

From DL.com

photojojo

DANKE! (stupid FAQs)

This is intriguing. In my younger days without kids I would have totally booked a bunch of TATL mileage runs in order to get that much closer to the next MM tier. At the current tempo I'm about 9 years off.

JSprague24

Thanks to both of you for the help! It's been a while since I've had a chance at hitting FO, so I'd kind of lost track of how exactly to monitor what I'm doing.

MSP- I do have 8 actual segments this year, with the other 4 being accelerator bonuses. The 20 I referred to was the number of actual segments I interpreted that I'd need.

SuperG1955

Based on your projected flying and already flown, you'll meet both the MQMs and MQSs for FO and your projection of hitting $25K spend on your DL Platinum will get you the AMEX waiver so MQDs are immaterial.
You have 12 MQS. You're projecting 3 or 4 trips that have a connection which means 12 or 16 base MQS multiplied by 1.5 equals 18 to 24 additional which gives you 30 to 36 MQS with 30 required.
You have 6000 MQMs. Each of your 3 or 4 trips will get you at least 6000 MQM for another 18,000 to 24,000. In addition, you'll get 12,500 MQM when you hit the $25,000 spend on the DL Platinum card. That means you'll have well over thMQM for FO and will roll over at least 11,000 MQM to next year.

You're in a no sweat situation as long as you make your flights as projected - 3 R/T minimum.

The ATL BATL

If you had bothered to read both of my posts, you'd see that I DID deselect C+ upgrades in my profile AND that I have to book via a 3rd-party site. So with my FF status attached, Delta doesn't offer me a C+ buy-up - after booking - for any domestic flight, only FC. Only after I remove my FF number from the res can I do that. It's an unnecessary hurdle for simply trying to utilize a promo they created for folks to gain or maintain status.

Which was my point, however "not normal" a human that makes me.

WillBarrett_68

your mistake is assuming that they took time and effort to make it harder for your case, rather than realize you're doing something that essentially zero other people want to do and getting mad that they didn't take time and effort to make their website work the way you want it to in this one particular edge case that nobody else runs into, particularly when you were able to figure out a way to get it done anyway.