upgrader

Not sure anyone will believe my tale but I just fininished cancelling two TATL flights and rebooking them after encountering several problems in doing all of that online. DL CSRs here in the states gave me some bad info on how to do it all online and in frustration I called the DL.com tech help line only to find out that I was speaking with our friends in India. Guess what? In five minutes they had walked me through the whole process very smoothly while I did it all online at DL.com, my 2X MQMs thus ensured, and they then upgraded my M fares to Zs immediately. Kudos to DL's Indian tech/CSR people and I promise not to make any remarks even remotely disparaging in the future. ^

lls138

My experience described above and in another thread was not as good. I canceeled a previous SAN-JFK U fare yesterday.....ecredit nowehere to be found online, only by phone....wlked through with two techs and SMS as only solution was to rebook by phone to use credit....so i purchased with credit card online, saving my new "phonecredit" for a later flight in the year. Magically, got an email today stating that they solved my problem by reinstating my original itin and cancelling my new one???? Now the fare increased beyond "worth it" status, so i lost my chance for double MQM....thanks DL!

Unfortunately, I have 5 RT booked until 6/30/08 and all booked before 3/31/08 and all with significantly higher fares.....though I can keep watching i guess

Global_Hi_Flyer

Actually, given the timing of the announcement, I predict that this was done intentionally to try and keep the high-level flyers loyal in light of the fee increases - and especially the new charge for partner flights.

Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.

Geogirl1234

My situation exactly except I ONLY have 3RT's booked (each 4,000MQM's). Sort of penalizes those of us who plan ahead

newfie

The ad appeared in the Sunday addition of USA Today and since I was staying at a Marriot Courtyard I went to the Delta website Sunday and signed up.
That was Sunday so I'm not sure why some are having problems signing up?

jbatl

You need to read the entire thread. OP 'broke' this news last Friday. Link wasn't active for signup until Saturday night. Believe me, everyone has sucessfully signed up for this promo.

LegalTender

Does minting a boatload of new PM's next year hit the cost-benefit sweet spot such a promotion implies? Are April loads so low the airline had no choice?

I see this as a harbinger of end-of-year Medallion tier re-structuring: 125K elites getting free CRC and more reliable upgrading among the incentives.

meteobob

Slightly different take on this issue. I'll be flying to GIG in May. Ticket is yet to be booked. However, the corporation (Univ in Brazil) needs to book it themselves, and at lowest fare. Presumably, they are not doing it via delta.com. Thus, if after 24hr of their purchase, I cancel, giving e-credit, can I then book it at delta.com myself using the ecredit. Will the double mqm apply-- since the earlier ecredit was not done on delta.com?

Lastly -- what is typically the change fee for an international flight such as this that I would incur? I suspect that even if it is $200-$300, the double MQM would be more than worth it given the length of the flight.

Bob

MikeMpls

Despite the interesting conspiracy theories, I suspect the motivation is more basic & mundane -- drum up business & marginal revenue in the off-season to offset rising fuel costs.

I do think it may backfire in the long run.

keihin_242

Just finished booking SEA-NRT via LAX, a trip I was going to make anyway. A few items out of this:

1. My mileage/MQM tally from DL.com for this trip (in M) is as follows:

Total miles: 12812
Total MQM: 19218

2. When I called DL (and spoke to someone in the US!) they reiterated the fact that the bonus MQM show up 6-8 weeks after the end of the promo in June. So I'll make FO the hard way when I return to SEA; I'll have to wait for July or so for the bonus miles to allow me to cheat my way into Gold.

The DL agent also confirmed that I was indeed registered for the promo and confirmed that the 1.5 YBM earnings are subject to doubling.

3. The LAX-NRT leg is on KE both ways. I asked specifically whether this flight qualifies for the promo - agent said it did, of course. I fully expected codeshares to qualify but I had to ask out of habit. Also, I'm delighted to be flying KE metal vice NW. I was very surprised to see a KE itin price out the same as a NW itin.

chrisny2

So does this mean that any flight booked on delta.com with a DL flight number will qualify for 2x MQM?

tonypct

How is drumming up business and marginal revenue in the off season to offset rising fuel costs mundane? Wouldn't any carrier want to do that?

Not surprised to hear that you think this will backfire on Delta. We'll just have to wait and see.

RobertS975

Go back and read the offer on the DL website... any DL coded flight except on Northwest or Continental.

MikeMpls

Did you actually read my entire post, including the quotation from the post I was responding to:

I really don't see anything sinister in Delta's motiviations behind this promo. They want $$$$. Real simple. It's a real simple, mundane purpose. No conspiracy theories are needed.

opus17

Bah! I need to book another trip to Germany in May, but I need to use my corporate travel web site (that gives a nice discount), and can't use delta.com.