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A Challenge: The Least-Expensive Way to Get The Most Medallion Qualification Miles?
Dec 11, 2011, 3:04 pm
#1906
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: DCA
Programs: DL DM, HH Diamond; SPG Gold; MR Platinum :)
Posts: 521
Unless you can find a HH property for 4 nights for less than $300 then your bet is to buy the miles. Even if you can stay twice for two nights each, it might make better sense to pay $300 for 2500 MQM instead of paying less for only 500 MQMs.
Dec 11, 2011, 4:19 pm
#1907
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 2
Need 4500 MQMs to make Gold medallion
Hi- So, I'm 11500 MQMs short of Gold status. I have an international trip departing atl dec 25 that will get me 7500 MQMs. But the return trip is Jan 10, so delta won't credit me the other 7500 as part of 2011 accrual. Which leaves me at 4000-4500 mqm short. I already got the 5k MQM boost through credit card. Apart from buying the MQMs, are there any options to build the MQMs? Would love help with finding a RT ticket to SFO or other US city dec 16-18 wkend that may earn me the MQMs left. Advice anyone? Much appreciated.
Dec 11, 2011, 4:44 pm
#1908
Moderator: Delta SkyMiles, Luxury Hotels, TravelBuzz! and Italy
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 26,544
Welcome to Flyertalk, gotpassport What is your home city airport? That might help us help you.
Dec 11, 2011, 5:00 pm
#1910
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 1
Hi gotpassport.
I'm no expert -- this is actually my first post, too -- but this is what I would do:
https://dn.delta.com/skymiles/purchasemqms/buy/landing
The program ends on December 15.
I'm actually in the opposite situation. I'm dangerously close to PM, and I'll be doing my best to avoid travel for the rest of the year so as not to lose my rollover MQM's. I wish it was as easy as transferring the rest of my year's MQM's to you.
Hope the above link helps.
I'm no expert -- this is actually my first post, too -- but this is what I would do:
https://dn.delta.com/skymiles/purchasemqms/buy/landing
The program ends on December 15.
I'm actually in the opposite situation. I'm dangerously close to PM, and I'll be doing my best to avoid travel for the rest of the year so as not to lose my rollover MQM's. I wish it was as easy as transferring the rest of my year's MQM's to you.
Hope the above link helps.
Dec 11, 2011, 5:05 pm
#1911
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Louisville, KY, USA
Posts: 2,583
Hi gotpassport.
I'm no expert -- this is actually my first post, too -- but this is what I would do:
https://dn.delta.com/skymiles/purchasemqms/buy/landing
The program ends on December 15.
I'm actually in the opposite situation. I'm dangerously close to PM, and I'll be doing my best to avoid travel for the rest of the year so as not to lose my rollover MQM's. I wish it was as easy as transferring the rest of my year's MQM's to you.
Hope the above link helps.
I'm no expert -- this is actually my first post, too -- but this is what I would do:
https://dn.delta.com/skymiles/purchasemqms/buy/landing
The program ends on December 15.
I'm actually in the opposite situation. I'm dangerously close to PM, and I'll be doing my best to avoid travel for the rest of the year so as not to lose my rollover MQM's. I wish it was as easy as transferring the rest of my year's MQM's to you.
Hope the above link helps.
Dec 11, 2011, 5:09 pm
#1912
Join Date: Apr 2005
Programs: Delta- Gold
Posts: 101
No 500 MQM deals out there?
Dec 11, 2011, 5:17 pm
#1913
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Programs: DL 1 million, AA 1 mil, HH lapsed Diamond, Marriott Plat
Posts: 28,190
ATL-SFO the 16th-18th is not a cheap trip as you're buying too late - even the 7-day adv purchase fares are gone. Think $750+. LAX can be done for $579 that weekend to yield 3892 MQM.
Dec 11, 2011, 5:18 pm
#1914
Moderator: Delta SkyMiles, Luxury Hotels, TravelBuzz! and Italy
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 26,544
Dec 11, 2011, 5:32 pm
#1915
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MSP (Mahtomedi, MN, USA) - Delta hub captive, Marriott Gold, US Mint Silver, CVS Red
Programs: "We've been starving, and sitting on a ham sandwich the whole time."
Posts: 1,482
Hi- So, I'm 11500 MQMs short of Gold status. I have an international trip departing atl dec 25 that will get me 7500 MQMs. But the return trip is Jan 10, so delta won't credit me the other 7500 as part of 2011 accrual. Which leaves me at 4000-4500 mqm short. I already got the 5k MQM boost through credit card. Apart from buying the MQMs, are there any options to build the MQMs? Would love help with finding a RT ticket to SFO or other US city dec 16-18 wkend that may earn me the MQMs left. Advice anyone? Much appreciated.
Take a connection or two via MSP, SLC, SEA, etc and you may be able to make your mileage goal.
I'd just buy the miles unless you can combine your "miles run" with something you actually want to do. I'd be very hard pressed to do an actual miles run.
Dec 12, 2011, 1:36 am
#1916
Join Date: Oct 2011
Programs: DL PM, Marriott Platinum,Hertz Pres Circle
Posts: 215
Delta SkyClub membership
There is a promo currently running thru the end of the year. If you purchase an annual membership, you get 1500 MQMs
Dec 12, 2011, 9:43 am
#1918
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minneapolis: DL DM charter 2.3MM
Programs: A3*Gold, SPG Plat, HyattDiamond, MarriottPP, LHW exAccess, ICI, Raffles Amb, NW PE MM, TWA Gold MM
Posts: 100,417
Buy the miles and do it soon, before the offer expires in mid-December. I would consider buying the maximum and getting some rollover since the cost per mile is cheaper when you buy more of them.
Dec 12, 2011, 12:01 pm
#1919
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: DCA
Programs: DL DM 2MM; EK Silver; HH Gold
Posts: 927
Buy them. Also, I'm pretty sure the Hilton promo expired yesterday (Dec 11th).
Dec 12, 2011, 12:15 pm
#1920
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: DCA
Programs: DL DM, AA EXP, various hotel
Posts: 2,227
Have you looked through all your mileage statements for the past year to make sure everything was credited correctly?
Maybe you were rerouted sometime from a one-stop flight to a non-stop, and you could claim original routing credit for the difference.
Maybe you were rerouted sometime from a one-stop flight to a non-stop, and you could claim original routing credit for the difference.