hnewman

I did not fly DL much this year, but I flew enough last year to earn DM for this year as I was going to retire and wanted the GUC as I moved to ELP and DL has only 2 flights per day I changed to AA. I flew a LOT on AA and earned CK. Last year was travel year. DM on DL, CK on AA and Silver on UA. All domestic this year but it is nice in retirement. I would love to know the answer and I am likely a significant outlier and they might not have figured out what they want to do for my case.

sydneyracquelle

Rollover is always zero if you do not make at least FO. Regardless of MM status.

iflyalexair

I am so chuffed. I'll make DM for 2024, and I'll rollover 700+k MQMs. 7 years of extended DM. Yay!

This is certainly going to affect my strategy going forward. Do we have any intel yet what happens if you have a Reserve Card with +75,000k in spending for the Authorized Reserve Users (those who pay $175)?

busdriver11

How many MQMs do you have now? It sounds possible that you will lose them all and not be able to convert anything next year if you don�t hit SM status this year. If it�s a significant amount, I would definitely confirm this and figure out a way to get there, whether through flights or spend. If it�s a small number, no big deal.

itamex

HELLO! i am very near to be DM and my original plan was to make another two long flights before end of year , to start the new year with approx 20MQM rollover
But things changed, so i will STOP this year at 122k MQM
I won't be diamond, i will be platinum with 47k MQM that i can convert to 4700 MQD
So next year should be "easy" for me to get the GOLD at 10k MQD starting with 4700MQD
remember for me italian, there are no credit cards, so MQD only from flights
I won't be DM, only platinum
But i think this is my best option
The other option woulld be to reach DM (i have a flight in december which i plan to use without the skymiles account, otherwise it will make me DM at approx 125.5k MQM) and then i will have three choice of 1.000MQD each
So during the year , if i reach the 10K MQD flying, i can use choices to get 25.000milesx3,
if i only reach 7.000MQD i will have the 3.000 from the choices

until now i don't know what to do
Can you confirm my calculations are correct? thanks!!

busdriver11

I think your calculations are correct, that is, if they allow you to use all three choice awards to get 1K MQD each.

However, I think maybe your second option is better. You are choosing to have one year of PM and one year of GM, when your other option is one year of DM and one year of SM (or potentially GM), is that correct? I would ask a few questions. Like if your two long flights don't have your Delta medallion number on it, are you getting mileage credit elsewhere, or just giving up the Delta miles? And does being GM really have that many more benefits for you than being SM for the year? Probably not getting upgraded anyways, so I don't know that there's much difference. I sure wouldn't waste all three DM choice benefits on 1K MQD boosts (if they allow that), aren't 25K miles or GUCs useful to you? I just don't think I'd trade all those Choice benefits just to be GM. Bummer you can't use one of the Choice benefits to give yourself GM, along with someone else!

arunhn

Is your question about "intel" related to sky club access for authorized users? If so, once the account hits 75K, all users, primary and authorized/additional users with a reserve card get unlimited access.

itamex

thanks!
the two long flights still didn't buy them, they were planned to do in december or february next year. so, because of the skymiles changes, i'll do them next year
If they allow to get all the 3 choice of 1.000 MQD is a good point which i didn't think of
I almost fly with aeromexico or af/kl so the upgrades aren't very useful to me
For me it's important at least the silver for the free bags, and the gold for the lounge access and skypriority service
Also for me it has been really a good benefit the possibility to choose free extra legroom on af/klm . I don't know if this was a benefit of being DM or will be also possible with Gold
Of course if i end of year with PM status, next year i will earn "only" 80% bonus miles instead of 120% if i become diamond
But i will have 4700MQD to start, and this mean a much more easy way to gold

itamex

yes!! that would be great! if someone wants to "gift" me the gold status, please contact me

hnewman

THANK YOU. I forgot about that. I just upgraded my flight to I can make SM. Much appreciated!

flyerCO

Tiu still "earn" Sulver/Gold. In fact if yiu don't earn Silver yiu don't get rollover.

sydneyracquelle

There are going to be some very shocked people on 1/1/24 when their MQM balance goes from hundreds of thousands to zero because they didn�t hit the $3,000 MQD minimum or $25k Amex.

josephstern

Anyone with hundreds of thousands of MQMs should understand the rules pretty clearly by now.

flyerCO

Yep. Has happened every year with MM flyers. However I'm still not sure if this happens, since there's no MQM in the new year. It's partially related to of my question as to if there's a deduction of MQM as that is normally done on Jan 1.

sydneyracquelle

You would think but there are tons of people out there who are not engaged. Some people I�ve met had no idea about choice benefits they were entitled to select each year.