Difference between lifetime and annual for MM elite level?
Aug 18, 2003, 9:51 pm
#1
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Difference between lifetime and annual for MM elite level?
Ok I don't use DL much more at all, however I am a 2 million miler and have been one for at least 2 years. I thought I would get lifetime silver status but I recently found out I was gold status. The information said annual not lifetime so I called SMS and asked if I was gold for just 2004 and back to silver for 2003. The agent said no, that I am forever gold. Assuming there are no flights taken on Delta in 2003, do I retain gold forever due to 2 MM or back to silver?
Aug 18, 2003, 10:06 pm
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You are forever GM, until DL decides otherwise.
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Aug 18, 2003, 10:08 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by chuck1:
Ok I don't use DL much more at all, however I am a 2 million miler and have been one for at least 2 years. I thought I would get lifetime silver status but I recently found out I was gold status. The information said annual not lifetime so I called SMS and asked if I was gold for just 2004 and back to silver for 2003. The agent said no, that I am forever gold. Assuming there are no flights taken on Delta in 2003, do I retain gold forever due to 2 MM or back to silver?</font>
Ok I don't use DL much more at all, however I am a 2 million miler and have been one for at least 2 years. I thought I would get lifetime silver status but I recently found out I was gold status. The information said annual not lifetime so I called SMS and asked if I was gold for just 2004 and back to silver for 2003. The agent said no, that I am forever gold. Assuming there are no flights taken on Delta in 2003, do I retain gold forever due to 2 MM or back to silver?</font>
It depends on what the definition of "annual" is (discussed in other threads). But if looking at the bottle as being half full rather than half empty, your agent appears to be correct.
See the exact wording at:
http://www.delta.com/skymiles/about/...x.jsp#longterm
(Edited to put in the correct link)
[This message has been edited by Flying_Duck (edited 08-18-2003).]
Aug 19, 2003, 4:42 am
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Remember Flying Colonel was lifetime too. MM status will be permanent until DL decides it can get away with taking it away.
Aug 19, 2003, 5:46 am
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.....hence the world "annual". That means yearly. I don't translate "annual" into "forever", or "lifetime". If Delta truly intended to leave it lifetime, they would not have changed the verbiage and would have left it the way it was.
Aug 19, 2003, 3:44 pm
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Exactly right jeffrey. "Annual" is the word you use for plants which die after 1 year of life. And the lame excuse they gave at the time of the change was that it was now called annual because you could now reach GM or PM rather than be FO for a lifetime. Why PM benefits were also named "annual" was never explained.