I've only seen overcrowded clubs at JFK (after 2PM) and ATL Terminal B where I had to wait in line twice this year while the other options weren't busy. I usually travel on non-peak days and hours so my question to Delta is if the club is showing not busy in the app (under 30% capacity) and my flight is leaving in less than 2 hours why do I even need to burn a visit credit? They could easily setup the tracking system to account for this and in ATL it could even the load at some of the clubs. Having people in clubs vs. them being underutilized would make more sense. Sure, overcrowded clubs are not fun but they are staffing for a full club and it's a cost for them if they aren't at a certain utilization rate I would think.

Similarly are there a lot of people with hundreds of thousands of rollover miles and otherwise not spending or flying with Delta? Is status for these people just an ego thing or something?

They aren't desired. The poster was making a simple comparison since status can be earned by flying, spending on cards, or any number of infinite combinations of the two.

There is still the option to convert the rollover MQMs into RDMs. So, if you're going to make the MQDs anyway, you can opt to turn those 351,000 rollover MQMS into 175,500 redeemable skymiles. It's 1 RDM per 2 Rollover MQMs.

Certainly, three years of diamond is certainly better than that, but if you're confident in your spend and travel, I guess you'll have to decide.

I�m currently a 360� member with over 2 million MQM. I�m uncertain if I use the 100,000 MQM yearly I can maintain 360 status.

With the new rules I�m already lifetime Diamond so I would hope I could use my MQM to maintain 360 for the next 21 years.

Any clarification on this would be appreciated.

thank you

3MM will be Diamond

I may be wrong, but the use of 100k may be just for the status levels and not 360. Another question....

I�m impressed 1Ms now get lifetime Gold status. That�s just matching what UA has offered forever, but it�s still notable. At least I�ll have STE+ whenever I fly a ST carrier now.

Still wish they had some different thresholds or waivers for people outside the US though. Japan�s currency is so weak right now that $28k is probably above the average salary for the whole country.

I've been diamond for years. I have two reserve cards, and my husband has one. I put enough spend on the cards to collect many if not all of the MQM boosts. With rollover, extensions, and the boosts, I have amassed a huge amount of MQMs. I fly about 75-100 segments a year, and I obviously cherish my DM status. More often than not, my husband joins, so we both enjoy the shared DM status. I'm at 90% upgrades for the year and have managed to find decent J redemptions on DL partners or Y redemptions on DL when I'm getting 2+ CPM.

I churn AA, AS, and UA visa/mastercards. So, I always have a mass of AA and UA miles to score better redemptions for longhaul J, but I put all of my domestic spend on DL.

that�s the challenge. I�m lifetime Diamond already. So my 2 million MQM�s will be wasted if I can�t use them to maintain 360.

There has to be more to the $2500 head start than simply holding a credit card. I could understand if this head start took the place of the MQD waiver at $25,000 spent, but you shouldn't get it just for paying the annual fee. It would make the most sense to need to spend $25,000 to get the initial $2500 head start, and from then on you would earn the previously announced 1:10 or 1:20 MQD per credit card spend.

you would probably get more value converting to RDM.

Not wasted. They convert to 1M RDMs.

I don�t need normal miles. I would just like to remain 360. And as I fall short of 5mm I�m in limbo already being a lifetime Diamond

You do realize that what you proposed isn't a head start at all, right?