Pandemic extended PM/DM did not receive choice benefits for the 2022 status year (earned from flying in 2021).

I also believe "earned DM" was higher on the upgrade list than "extended DM".

I agree this is vague, but if Delta defines types the same way American Express does, then personal and business are two different types:

https://www.americanexpress.com/en-u...-credit-cards/

True
All they needed to do was remove segments this year then remove the card waiver next year and then message the rollover crowd slowly
They screwed up big time and made the frogs, er, people realize that the water was suddenly boiling !

This does NOTHING to engender loyalty to Amex; their original goal / plan!
It takes 3-4c spend to get 1 MQM now with the Reserve, as I have calculated
They could have continued that aspect with mild devaluation with 1:5 spend on Reserve and 1:10 spend on the Platinum as a new benefit
or
Made the MQDs count as miles for lifetime along with flying etc etc
or
just kept 1MM Silver 2 GM, 3 PM, 4 DM and 6 360 and given more incentive using spend to get there!

It is a good thing for most folk that people like us who know how to game the system are not in charge of the programs
We know how to stop the easy leaks

I was also thinking that, however, to extend from the pandemic, you didn�t have to do anything. You didn�t have to choose option A or B, it was just a gift. Not too smart of a gift on Delta�s part, I think, at least past 2020. But in the newest scenario, you are sacrificing miles or MQD�s to take this option, so you are actively choosing to do something. Don�t know if that matters.

Wish I could get a definitive answer to this soon, so I can decide whether to put my property taxes on my Reserve card to get another MQM boost.

If you know for certain that you'll make DM naturally for those same 3 years, convert your 351K MQM to RDM's instead of wasting them on the extended status.

Out of MAIN 1 and into SKY when boarding the back of the bus, It's just more relaxing!

I have a weird feeling that the annual complementary platinum and diamond status coming out of million miler status is going to be the light version; without choice benefits

As seen on reddit�

Beginning January 1, 2024, SkyMiles Members can earn MQDs on Delta Award Travel tickets operated by Delta partners, in Main Cabin (or equivalent) or above, when booked through any direct Delta channel, with MQDs calculated based on miles redeemed toward the Award Ticket price divided by 100. Government-imposed taxes and fees do not earn MQDs.

I 100% agree. I am astounded by this counterswing of the pendulum. There will be a ton of EOY 23 Diamonds (including myself) who have hundreds of thousands of MQMs squirreled away and who will choose the option of status extension for anywhere fro 1-10 years. And in an effort to goose the Amex spending there will be a horde of new platinums that are sticking around for years.

This just makes no sense. Delta has utterly failed with both the goals they were pursuing to begin with

Except presumably if you re-qualify through status extension alone you will not get the Medallion Choice benefits.

I do think that people like you are a fairly small percentage/number of Delta flyers; you�re just over-represented on FT. The pandemic rollover medallion boosts for most people would have run out somewhere around 2025-26.

However people like you are actual high value flyers and not �high value flyers�, and given how generous the program revisions were in part at the pointy end of the elite curve, I suspect that Delta got some really brutal blowback from genuinely high value flyers and felt like they had to overcompensate like they did to suddenly not lose that high value flyer pool that they discovered they�d been taking for granted as they developed the new SkySpend program.

I'm sitting at about 750,000 lifetime miles. I've always thought that "lifetime Silver Medallion" was a big "meh" as a reward for achieving million miler status, and hence have never been motivated to attain it. Now that one million miles will yield lifetime Gold status, I am suddenly much more interested. A million miles is still a few years away (especially since it will be based only on miles flown, not on MQMs), but will definitely be achievable by age 60, which should give me a decade or two to enjoy it before I'll probably need to dial back the travel.

This post is likely exactly the thing they want to hear.

This is proof that actual customer response, not just venting and ranting (though that's not totally unhealthy for a bit!), can get results. We all need to remember this if UA and AA try this junk!

It is, frankly, insane that they are allowing people to extend DM status for 100k MQMs/year. That's both fewer MQMs than you would have needed to "use" per year to keep DM under the only system and doesn't have the substantial spend requirement that you needed to keep DM, even using rollover MQMs. It makes zero chance. Their stated goal was to thin the top ranks, but there are likely to be many more people able to keep DM for several years under the new system than under the old.