Nov 10, 2014, 2:08 am
Last edit by: bakrgby
All,
A wikipost seemed to be useful for this thread to help FTers find the most current infomation regarding DL's Status Match Challenge.
SKYMILES MEDALLION® STATUS MATCH CHALLENGE
Official Delta Site and Sign-Up
Status Match Period:
90 Days
MQM/MQS Qualifying Flights must be flown on Delta, Delta Connection or Partner Flights:
In order to extend your Medallion status after the 90 days, you'll need to earn a specific number of Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs) or Medallion Qualification Segments (MQSs) within the 90 days of enrolling by flying Delta or Delta Connection®, and partner airlines.
Comparable Status:
MQM / MQS Requirement:
Criteria for Participation:
Other Notes from dl.com:
When to request:
Corporate accounts:
Depending on your company's agreement with Delta, you may have different qualification requirements and/or an alternate method of requesting a status match or challenge. Check your company's intranet or travel manager.
Current Processing Time:
4-5 days as of July 31st 2022
A wikipost seemed to be useful for this thread to help FTers find the most current infomation regarding DL's Status Match Challenge.
SKYMILES MEDALLION® STATUS MATCH CHALLENGE
Official Delta Site and Sign-Up
Status Match Period:
90 Days
MQM/MQS Qualifying Flights must be flown on Delta, Delta Connection or Partner Flights:
In order to extend your Medallion status after the 90 days, you'll need to earn a specific number of Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs) or Medallion Qualification Segments (MQSs) within the 90 days of enrolling by flying Delta or Delta Connection®, and partner airlines.
Comparable Status:
- DL Silver Medallion (FO) - AA Gold; UA Premier Silver; AS MVP
- DL Gold Medallion (GM) - AA Platinum; UA Premier Gold; AS MVP Gold
- DL Platinum Medallion (PM) - AA Executive Platinum; UA 1K; AS MVP Gold 75K
- DL Diamond Medallion (DM) - DL does not typically match to DM.
From dl.com: If you have status with another airline not listed above, you may still be eligible for this challenge. Please submit your information below to confirm eligibility.
MQM / MQS Requirement:
- FO: 6,250 MQMs or 8 MQSs and $750MQD or MQD waiver
- GM: 12,500 MQMs or 15 MQSs and $1500MQD or MQD waiver
- PM: 18,750 MQMs or 25 MQSs and $2250MQD or MQD waiver
Criteria for Participation:
- Member has not received a status match or complimentary Medallion status in the past three years
- Is currently a non-Medallion member
- Must present valid and current elite credential or statement showing elite status from another airline
- Status being matched must be earned and not complementary.
Other Notes from dl.com:
- A physical Medallion membership card will not be issued for the 90-day qualification period. You may enjoy Medallion benefits on Delta or Delta Connection by providing your SkyMiles number when making reservations or at check-in. You can also access your Membership Card through the Fly Delta app.
During the 90-day period, you will not have access to all reciprocal Medallion benefits with Delta's partner airlines, including access to SkyTeam® lounges. - Members who are matched to Platinum Medallion status will not be eligible for Choice Benefits until the flight requirement to maintain Platinum Medallion status is met.
- Through this offer, you may maintain the same or lower Medallion status level as your matched status. If you are matched to Silver Medallion status, you will not be able to earn Gold Medallion status through this offer, even if you will fly more than 12,500 MQMs or 15 MQSs during the offer period. But if you have been matched to Gold Medallion status and you only fly 6,250 MQMs or 8 MQSs, you will earn Silver Medallion status. Your Medallion status will be returned to non-Medallion status if you are unable to complete the minimum flight requirement before the end of the 90-day period.
- Medallion status match is only offered for Platinum, Gold and Silver Medallion levels.
When to request:
- Requests from 1/1 - 6/30 will receive status through 1/31 of the following year.
- Requests from 7/1 - 12/31 will receive status through 1/31 of the second year.
Corporate accounts:
Depending on your company's agreement with Delta, you may have different qualification requirements and/or an alternate method of requesting a status match or challenge. Check your company's intranet or travel manager.
Current Processing Time:
4-5 days as of July 31st 2022
Delta Air Lines Elite Status Match Challenge : The Definitive Thread
Aug 20, 2019, 9:00 pm
#2551
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Given how little time we have until the end of the year and since DL offers MQM rollover, let's say I fly exactly 12,500 miles to qualify for DL Gold until January 2021. Then I fly another 25,000 miles before the end of the calendar year for a grand total of 37,500 MQM, how much MQM will rollover into next year for status qualifications? Obviously 37,500 MQMs won't qualify me for DL Platinum so I'll end the year as DL Gold.
However we have a data point:
So in your 37500 scenario you'd most likely have 12500 rollover.
Aug 20, 2019, 9:58 pm
#2552
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The DL site isn't crystal clear on this. There are specific examples in the rollover terms and conditions that if you received gifted status (PM/DM choice benefit) or complimentary status (presumably meaning 1MM+ members) you rollover anything above the highest tier you achieve even if that is lower than your comped status. It does not spell out that this applies also to status matches.
However we have a data point:
So in your 37500 scenario you'd most likely have 12500 rollover.
However we have a data point:
So in your 37500 scenario you'd most likely have 12500 rollover.
Aug 22, 2019, 4:17 pm
#2553
Join Date: May 2018
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I am an AA Platinum and applied for status match on 8/15/2019 and was approved on 8/19/2019. I know I can knock this challenge out easily on segments, but I am also trying to keep Platinum status on AA for next year and need 14 more segments. I see that if I am approved for an AMEX Delta Reserve I can get 10,000 MQMs so I could easily match on MQMs and also knock out the AA segments. Has anyone combined a status match plus Delta Reserve bonus?
Aug 22, 2019, 4:27 pm
#2554
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I am an AA Platinum and applied for status match on 8/15/2019 and was approved on 8/19/2019. I know I can knock this challenge out easily on segments, but I am also trying to keep Platinum status on AA for next year and need 14 more segments. I see that if I am approved for an AMEX Delta Reserve I can get 10,000 MQMs so I could easily match on MQMs and also knock out the AA segments. Has anyone combined a status match plus Delta Reserve bonus?
Under "SHOW ADDITIONAL DETAILS & TERMS"
"MQMs/MQSs/MQDs earned through other sources, including but not limited to SkyMiles Credit Cards, do not count towards the challenge."
Aug 22, 2019, 4:35 pm
#2555
Join Date: May 2018
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https://www.delta.com/content/www/en...challenge.html
Under "SHOW ADDITIONAL DETAILS & TERMS"
"MQMs/MQSs/MQDs earned through other sources, including but not limited to SkyMiles Credit Cards, do not count towards the challenge."
Under "SHOW ADDITIONAL DETAILS & TERMS"
"MQMs/MQSs/MQDs earned through other sources, including but not limited to SkyMiles Credit Cards, do not count towards the challenge."
Aug 22, 2019, 4:53 pm
#2556
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: ATL
Posts: 1,911
A few pages back I posted that I got a 5k MQM bonus thru a Delta AMEX platinum bonus, and once that posted it pushed me past the 12,500 Gold threshold challenge, and I got an e-mail stating I completed the challenge. I’ve since flown more so don’t know if that challenge completion would have held
Aug 23, 2019, 8:05 am
#2557
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A few pages back I posted that I got a 5k MQM bonus thru a Delta AMEX platinum bonus, and once that posted it pushed me past the 12,500 Gold threshold challenge, and I got an e-mail stating I completed the challenge. I’ve since flown more so don’t know if that challenge completion would have held
Aug 23, 2019, 6:41 pm
#2558
Join Date: Oct 2017
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I suppose you could try to reply with additional docs to status match auto-reply email that had the subject "Auto Reply - Delta Air Lines Elite Status Match Challenge Request Received (KMM93657....." and the case number in the email. All of my emails with them had those same identifiers, so I am sure that is how they track the submissions.
Maybe the email management system is smart enough to group them together so that the evaluator can see both submissions when they get around to looking at it. I can't imagine it would hurt anything, but I guess it could send you to the back of the line or do something funky.
Anyone else have any insights?
Maybe the email management system is smart enough to group them together so that the evaluator can see both submissions when they get around to looking at it. I can't imagine it would hurt anything, but I guess it could send you to the back of the line or do something funky.
Anyone else have any insights?
Aug 24, 2019, 6:41 am
#2559
Join Date: Jun 2018
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Posts: 632
Yes as I believe you alluded to, they make it difficult to really know what they are and aren't counting towards the challenge in any case.
As my travel plans stand today I will end the challenge 1198 EQM or 2 EQS short of keeping the status all next year (good on EQD in any case). The first connecting flight I am assuming they are shorting me would have met both the EQM and EQS.
So basically I would need to book an additional round trip to ATL from S Fla for no reason other than to make sure I qualify, and really I am not sure it is worth spending even more for what Silver Medallion gives you.
Thanks for the advice, I'll keep trying and report back if I get any success. Any further experiences would be helpful.
As my travel plans stand today I will end the challenge 1198 EQM or 2 EQS short of keeping the status all next year (good on EQD in any case). The first connecting flight I am assuming they are shorting me would have met both the EQM and EQS.
So basically I would need to book an additional round trip to ATL from S Fla for no reason other than to make sure I qualify, and really I am not sure it is worth spending even more for what Silver Medallion gives you.
Thanks for the advice, I'll keep trying and report back if I get any success. Any further experiences would be helpful.
Aug 24, 2019, 1:20 pm
#2560
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: USA
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What's the current strategy for timing to request? I am Platinum at AA and ready to be done with AA.
I have already-planned travel that's enough to make the 12.5k Gold challenge but unfortunately the time between the first day of the first trip and the last day of the last trip is ~85 days. So I'm worried that if I get approved too many days prior to my first trip then the challenge will end before the last trip.
I have already-planned travel that's enough to make the 12.5k Gold challenge but unfortunately the time between the first day of the first trip and the last day of the last trip is ~85 days. So I'm worried that if I get approved too many days prior to my first trip then the challenge will end before the last trip.
Aug 31, 2019, 3:32 pm
#2561
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Question....Will a YYZ-JAX-YYZ trip followed by a YYZ-SJU-YYZ in the "Main Cabin" be enough to qualify for a Silver status match ? Both trips have 4 segments and I think the $$ value will meet the criteria. Am I correct ?
Sep 1, 2019, 3:10 am
#2562
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Sep 1, 2019, 1:27 pm
#2564
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Unless any of those are a "direct" flight with the same number on both legs, that sure looks like 8 segments to me.
Note that MQDs only include carrier-imposed taxes and fees so the MQD total will usually be slightly or somewhat less than the total ticket price. Look at the breakdown when purchasing, or if you are logged in when you buy the ticket it will tell you the MQM/MQD earning during the checkout process.
Note that MQDs only include carrier-imposed taxes and fees so the MQD total will usually be slightly or somewhat less than the total ticket price. Look at the breakdown when purchasing, or if you are logged in when you buy the ticket it will tell you the MQM/MQD earning during the checkout process.
Sep 2, 2019, 5:56 am
#2565
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I just logged on, and Sky Miles is showing Silver Medallion status. It's also showing that I'm exempt from MQD requirements because I'm in Canada. Is that correct ?