I am also Lifetime Titanium with Marriott and get none of these choice benefits unless i stay the 50 or 75 nights. I do get all other Titanium benefits.


This year, earn at least 50 Elite Night Credits to unlock your preferred exclusive Annual Choice Benefit:

• Get Suite Night Awards™ (five) to redeem for upgrades to select premium rooms or standard suites.
• Choose Your Favorite Mattress and save US$1,000 with purchase of a bed from any Marriott Bonvoy� retail brand.
• Gift Marriott Bonvoy Silver Elite Status to a family member or friend.
• Support the Arne M. Sorenson Hospitality Fund by donating US$100 to support the next generation of diverse leaders in hospitality.
• Support the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) by donating US$100 to support children worldwide.
• Support World Wildlife Fund (WWF) by donating US$100 to support their global conservation work.
• Add Elite Night Credits (five) to get you closer to higher Elite status and enhanced benefits.

Earn at least 75 Elite Night Credits this year to get an additional Annual Choice Benefit. You can choose from the options above, plus these:

Exclusive 75-Night Benefits

• Redeem One Free Night Award with a value of up to 40,000 points.
• Gift Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite Status to a family member or friend.

Not giving full DM benefits for this 100K MQM would essentially be... Better upgrade position, Hertz President's Circle (also at PM) and more RDMs? Not such a great deal IMHO...

On the other hand, Hyatt lifetime status explicitly gives you a cat 1-7 award plus four suite upgrade awards each year, with no earnings needed.

Not holding my breath. AA for years counted all bonus/CC miles toward MM status, so the threshold was quite low to achieve. They even warned people before the change so they could transfer in [hotel?] points or make large CC purchases
I believe UA only counted BIS miles on UA metal (though pre-merger CO members were credited more favorably).
DL is in the middle, basing on MQM - so includes cabin bonuses and partner travel but not elite bonuses or CC spend.
So DL is definitely being generous by skewing toward UA's program, although I'd point out that UA Gold gets E+ at booking (as does AA Plat, which is second level, now at 2MM), while DL Gold does not.

MQM boost miles can be deposited in any skymiles account (doesn't need to be the cardholder's SM account), and there's no stated limit (although getting millions of miles dumped into a single account will no doubt raise flags). 2x Reserve and 2x Platinum maxes you at 160,000MQM from boosts (and takes $1600 in AF). The remaining 2.84M MQM (for DM) would need to come from other's DL AMEX cards. The math on 3M MQM for DM would be $30k in AF (19 sets of 4 cards) and $6.4M spend - easy peasy

Where have you seen MM will be based on MQMs as they are going away, aren't they? "Beginning January 1, 2024, Million Miler Status will be earned via flight miles flown (excluding Basic Economy fares) and added to your total Million Miler balance. Any MQMs already earned toward Million Miler Status will remain." Quote about MQMs : "MQMs and MQM Rollover will be departing at the end of 2023"

Not really the same, in theory the company's current income is not contributing toward your pension income. Pension contributions made WHILE you were working were set aside, and invested, and that's paying your benefit. It's just a twist on a 401k (well, really vice-versa), but managed by the company.

Will there still be a 500 mile minimum per segment for MM qualification or is that going away too?

Signed,

250 air miles between my home airport and ATL

That is going away. Announced previously and not reversed yesterday.

this is an entire thread of that behavior. That is all we have heard since the original changes were announced in fact. There are legions of 8k plat's here crying their eyes out because they won't have status any more. DL failed miserably here in making things better because they were apparently worried that people who want something for nothing would be offended. In True DL fashion they screwed it up even more.

I suggest that we are credited the actually mileage flown since the 500 mile minimum is sunset as of 01/01/2024. Delta can pull the data from flight operations and customers can double check via flightaware.

"I agree that flyers who will get Plat or Diamond status as a result of being 3MM or 4MM, respectively, will NOT get Choice Benefits. Current 4MM people with Plat status do not get an annual Choice Benefit." -- THIS IS INCORRECT; 4MM GET CB. SEE THE POST BELOW.

The question is what happens to people who earn Plat or Diamond status in 2023, and decide to "pay" for continuing Plat or Diamond status with 100,000 leftover MQM in 2024.

I have over 300,000 MQM now (plus the 125,000 MQM needed for 2024). Does that means I can get three years of Diamond status renewal staring in 2024, AND the Choice Benefits? I "earned" the MQM's so it certainly feels like I would be earning Diamond status.

Unfortunately, I only only have 8,000 MQD's right now in 2023. Does this mean I need to do an epic MQD run before December 31, 2023, while partner Z-fares still get 40% MQD for miles traveled? I wish Delta sorted all of this out sooner.

Mod Note: The word "Rollover" in the title should be "Conversion"

I think I've answered this in 3 or 4 threads already. I am a retired 4MM Plat. I have received Choice Benefits every year they have been available. They may change in the future, but I have received them every year

If I were you I'd calculate when I'll hit lifetime Diamond via MM and only extend my Diamond status by that number of years (with some cushion) and convert the rest to miles.

Of all of this, the substantial upgrade to the Million Miler program surprises me the most. For decades now, driven by bean counters, it has been about "what have you done for us lately?" and Million Miler really meant very little. Miller Miler was not impacted, positively or negatively, in the original changes rolled out in September.

If no changes to Million Miler had been made as part of this "Oops" retrenchment, no one would have noticed.

Yet, they made a major upgrade to the program -- when they didn't have to.

It's puzzling. I think that perhaps, just perhaps, there was a standoff between bean counters who have been running the show forever and non-beancounters who took a position that loyalty really should be rewarded. For once, perhaps, the bean counters were shut down. This would have to come from the CEO level, I would think.

Happy for the change, I am -- although if indeed Choice Benefits are not part of the deal, it sours the happiness a good bit.