If you hold elite status with an airline other than Delta, today is the day to begin a Delta Medallion status match challenge. Once you match status and meet certain challenge thresholds for MQM (Medallion Qualification Miles) or MQS (Medallion Qualification Segments) and MQD (Medallion Qualification Dollar) spending, you’ll hold Delta status the rest of this year and all of next Medallion year — which ends on January 31, 2021! But today is critical in the status match challenge calendar. I’ll tell you why in a minute. What Are the Status Match Requirements? There are three requirements to qualify for a status match challenge — and you must meet all of them. Per Delta: You have not received a Status Match or complimentary Medallion Status in the past three years, unless the complimentary Medallion Status was through your Million Miler Status. You currently have elite status with a qualifying airline that was earned through…
This is rather telling to me. There is a new thread on FlyerTalk about Delta starting to, without request from a flyer, just “giving”…
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eBay user “dimadasha” is choosing to sell their Delta Platinum Medallion Choice Benefit on eBay. What a really STUPID idea. Oh and it gets…
With a HT to FlyerTalk it seems that Alaska is not going down without a fight. Delta has for Washington residents a HUGE MQM…
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In yet another, in a very long list of targeted promotions made to upset just about everyone who flies Delta, is a targeted one…
If you log in to Delta.com and go to the “Account Activity” page you will see that MQD spending totals are now showing up.…
At long last Delta Air Lines has updated their 2013 Status Challenge page. Delta no longer will just “match” you, you have to fly…
Welcome to a weekly feature on the Renés Points blog. Each week this series covers in a “rookie” way either a Delta or travel…
I have just about sifted through the mountain of mail that awaited me after a month in Sweden and toward the bottom of the…
I have been, off and on, a Platinum Medallion with Delta/NWA for a long time. Many years ago, the first time I hit Silver,…
Welcome to a weekly feature on the Renés Points blog. Each week this series covers in a “rookie” way either a Delta or travel…
There has been a fun thread that has popped up on Flyer Talk about someone getting FREE Diamond Medallion status each year from his…