Need 75000 MQM for PM!

This has to be my favorite post of the last year. ^

Nice work, Air Brian. Lucky for you the OP has modest goals. Afterall, he/she could have wanted to hit MM.

One of the best threads I've seen on FT in a long time!!

Wow nice trip Air Brian! I'm impressed.

Could cynical flyer be jmw1515 from the other thread?

In all honesty, other than the repetitiveness of the question: I need xxx mqm to make status what are my options questions, I don't understand the overreaction in hostility towards people trying to earn their last few miles without a mileage run.

Sure you may have flown a 100,000 miles this year and we should all be jealous, but it is not unprecedented for Delta to offer MQMs for non-flying activity. Now think honestly about this: If you were short a few miles wouldn't you at least look for some sort of non-flying activity to get you over your threshold before booking a MR? Or are you so much of a purist that if you were short 50 miles you wouldn't go dine at local restaurants, but rather book yourself a ticket in order to earn the status the old fashioned way.

All that being said, why don't we have a sticky at the top for the next few months that details all the current non-flying options of earning MQMs and that other than that states you need to fly? Its obviously a question on a lot of peoples minds since the end of the year is coming. Lets help people out instead of being offended that they want status without working for it as hard as you did!

Whoa! Just whoa. Hold on a second there. Just time out now.

You mean in order to get Skymiles as part of Delta's frequent flyer program, you honestly expect me to fly in the sky a given number of miles (say, I don't know, hypothetically 75,000?) and that in response and reaction Delta would grant unto me Platinum status within the aforementioned flyer program?

What sort of gibberish is that? I mean seriously, where on earth (or I suppose, in the sky) did you ever get that idea from? I know I am new here and all and just posting for the first time towards the end of a calendar year in a desparate attempt to make a given level (Platinum) and am just a little off (0 out of 75,000), but I mean come on. Neither Delta nor you expect me to actually fly in order to acheive that?

Do you?

I completely sympathize with the OP. I mean come on, no one flies for status anymore! Frankly they should just make everyone Platinum, then everyone would get upgrades. Just last year, US Airways, being the cutting edge top notch airline it is, offered you the option to earn EQMs for purchases at SkyMall (20 miles per $ at FTD) Obviously buying 100,000 EQMs for $5,000 is the way to go!! I think its time DL starts following the practices of the top notch airline, US Airways!!

Until Delta gets with the times I recommend the OP go buy his status at US Airways, I'm sure he will be pleased, especially since he won't be flying them

I'm cynical at heart, but not cynical enough to create a new name and post to derive humor from others.

After reading this thread, I can see where that correlation might be made...

Not me

My mistake. Sorry.

I think the OP is really Jeff Robertson, trolling for ideas he can implement to enhance the SkyMiles program.

Ditto that nice work Air Brian; but I think he didn't want to spend more than $30,000. Maybe he can spring for the few extra $. This is a great thread. As for the other post about hostility, I don't think there is hostility, just weariness about these similar threads, although no one is forcing us to read them. Perhaps any additional posts about needing miles could immediately be moved to a general thread entitled, "If you need end of year miles, post here or your thread will be immediately moved here." That would eliminate the clutter of these posts. Regardless, CynicalFlyer, and to most who responded, thanks for providing many laughs from this thread, and thanks for the great advice on MRs in FlyerTalk. I'll make GM this year entirely the BIS way with an LAX-AMS-IST run of about 14,000 miles in a few days.