Delta's Big Flip-Flop | Ep225 | 10-21-23
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Delta has walked back their elite status changes in a big way. Long-term elites and credit card enthusiasts have come out as good as gold. Has Delta gone too far and made elite status too easy to earn and keep?
00:00 Intro
01:37 Giant Mailbag
02:56 Hilton credit card changes
https://frequentmiler.com/big-changes-to-hilton-aspire-and-surpass-cards/
https://frequentmiler.com/amxhiltonaspire/
https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-american-express-surpass-card/
23:23 What crazy thing . . . did American Express do this week?
25:01 Award Talk
25:09 Citi adds Leading Hotels of the World Leaders Club
https://frequentmiler.com/citi-adds-leading-hotels-of-the-world-as-a-transfer-partner-51/
https://frequentmiler.com/citi-adds-a-new-path-to-luxury-hotel-stays/
30:30 Avianca LifeMiles
35:08 Main Event: Delta's flip-flop
36:04 Delta SkyClub Access changes
39:40 Changes to Medallion Qualifying Dollars (MQDs)
42:24 MQD Headstarts
53:27 Accommodations for long-term elites
53:49 Rollover MQMs to buy status extensions
56:04 Million Miler Status
59:49 Is Delta now making elite status too easy?
1:07:48 Question of the Week: What's the best way to earn credit card rewards on student load repayments? -miles for college
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, Delta's big flip-flap. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, Delta had announced some really big and ugly changes to their Sky Miles program, |
| 0:37.3 | and now, as we knew was coming, they've announced |
| 0:40.9 | a reversal, but the reversal is much, much bigger than I expected. So we'll get into all the ins and |
| 0:49.0 | outs of that. It's so big that even I for a moment looked at it and said, maybe I'm going to get a couple of delta cards and have low level delta status. |
| 0:58.8 | And I'm not somebody who's ever thought about it before. |
| 1:01.5 | But we'll get into more about why as we get further into today's show. |
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