metalblaze

Looking for suggestions/advice: with status extension, I will be a "regular DM" in 2022, and about $5k short in MQDs to qualify for "enhanced DM". Can do few MQD runs from JFK-LAX or JFK-Europe....but struggling to see if it is "worth" it?

Anyone else in the similar situation...what has been your thought process?

SamOF

Look at an AM business class flight JFK-Colombia. Will get you 2/3 of the way there for like 800 bucks.

troyintn

I am in the same boat, I am planning on going to VCE for the weekend middle of December. I have never been and want to scout it out prior to next year when we do a family vacation there. My thought process is I normally make Diamond by march, if in 2022 I am not traveling again in earnest I won't need anything in 2023.

vbscript2

I think it would be hard for it to be worth $2,857 of spending to do it on Delta, but, as someone else mentioned, it might be worthwhile if you could do a cheap, long business-class flight on Aeromexico or some other top-tier partner where MQDs are earned as a percentage of distance flown instead of on ticket price.

nrr

Using DL Vacations JFK-ZRH-JFK will get you approx $4,000 MQD if you purchase PS each way; DL Vacation packages use D(istance) method for the accelerator. Sometimes the air + hotel package is cheaper than the airfare alone. In DL's added examples on the "accelaerator" pages DL Vac DO earn proprer accelerator numbers (even though the fares may be "bulk"--you can also use GUCs, though some DL agents don't know this.)

j1194

My 2022 status still just shows “Skymiles Member” and not diamond medallion. Does anyone see their 2022 status match their 2021 there if they haven’t achieved it for this year?

xliioper

Status extensions won't show until later. I forget when they showed last year, but I believe it wasn't until towards the end of the year. My account also does not yet reflect extended status.

tomtaylor23

Will MQM's earned from Amex rollover as well? And Will MQS's rollover as well?

Qwkynuf

Yes. All MQMs.

WillBarrett_68

MQS has never rolled over and there's no indication that it will suddenly start this year.

MIA-SAT

When does the intra-Medallion level upgrade priority earned for the 2022 qualification year become effective? Does it commence whenever the Skymiles member requalifies or does it become effective on 2-1-22? The Medallion upgrades page seems to indicate that the priority is effective at or shortly after requalification:

"* All Medallion Members who earn their Status for the 2022 Medallion year by meeting the published qualifications will have Complimentary Upgrade clearance priority over those with extended Status within the same Tier. For example, a Platinum Medallion Member who earned Status on their own will clear before a Platinum Medallion Member who was given extended Status."

For those who have already qualified, do you perceive that your position on the upgrade lists has changed relative to the time prior to when you requalified for 2022? I have a trip to MCO tomorrow and given my current position on the upgrade list (#4) on a pleasure travel route with plenty of check-in time remaining, my impression is that the 2022 Intra-Medallion level qualification priority is in effect.

tomtaylor23

This may sound stupid, but if 2020 MQM's rolled over to 2021, and now all MQM's are being rolled over to 2021, does that mean the MQM's earned in 2020 that were allocated to 2021 will also rollover?

Tine Rod

isn’t that for next year?

Qwkynuf

Yes, and it has always been that way - or at least it has been that way at least since the implementation of MQDs. For members who have achieved Silver Medallion or above, all MQMs in excess of those required to attain the current status roll over to the next year. So as long as you have >25,000 MQMs in a given year, and spend at least $3,000 worth of MQDs, any number of MQMs above 25k will roll over. If you have a big pile of MQMs and don't fly at all, you could still maintain Silver or better by spending $25k or more in a year on a qualifying Delta-branded AmEx, too.

To use me as an example, I am a domestic Diamond. At the end of 2019 I had 177,015 MQM. I used 125,000 of that to requalify for 2020 DM, and carried over 52,015. In 2020 I earned an additional 56,335 (which should have dropped me to PM, but status extension...) so I ended 2020 with 108,350. That entire 108k carried over into 2021, and so far this year I have earned another 105,331, so I am currently sitting at 213,681. I expect to fly enough to earn at least another 25k before the end of the year, so I will be rolling over something north of 240k MQM into 2022.

Does that help?

tomtaylor23

That does. Thanks for explaining so clearly!