Comments on: What Are Bloggers Saying about the New Delta 4th Tier?

By: Dan J

Dan J — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:26:20 +0000

After 4 years with Platinum with NW and my fears have come true — Delta stripped away my 125%, waived unlimited mileage ticket changes, GREATLY reduced inventory on low-tier mileage tickets. Miles worth less, harder to get, and have to pay more for changes…

A fair compromise would have been Delta put their top tier at 100K and kept all the NW Platinum benefits from last year. Oh, and give me back some of those PerkSaver seats — you’re killing me with a lack of inventory!

I’ll give’em the rest of the year to fix or I’m jumping ship to Star Alliance.

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By: DL(toomuch)

DL(toomuch) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:38:10 +0000

Well, Chris is correct. There is a logarithm increase in prices from H to MBY.
If T is at 500, H is at 1400, M should be around 1600. Why is it always stuck at 2200 up north? regardless of season.
So, yes- MQM rollover- good! I will keep mileage at approx. 115 and have an easy start for next year. Now, its time to wrap up benefit with another airline (mid-tier double strategy).

More options, better.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:59:14 +0000

I think you hit the nail on the head with:

“There you have it…Rollover is good; lack of systemwide upgrades on all fares is bad; and everything else doesn’t matter much.”

As a very frequent DL flyer, that’s how I feel (sort of). The Y/B/M international fares are MUCH MUCH more expensive than the cheaper fares 2-4x usually. If they added 1 fare bucked (DL’s order is YBMHQKLUT) then we’re looking at 1.5-3x which is much more of a “benefit” to high mileage flyers.

The difference between Plat & Diamond is relatively little for 50K flown miles (or mid-tier status on another alliance).