Yesterday, I completed what was, for me at least, the world’s easiest mileage run. December found me 3,530 Medallion Qualifying Miles (MQMs) short of Delta Silver Medallion status. At this point in the year, there isn’t much one can do about that other than fly somewhere, so I did. As I noted yesterday, I found a pretty reasonable DCA-CVG-SFO-DTW-DCA fare and I flew the trip, which nets me just over 5,000 MQMs.
The whole trip went very well. We were ontime or early for every segment, the inflight crews were uniformly friendly, and things just could not have gone much better. This morning, I awoke to find that the first half of my trip has posted, but return portion (SFO-DTW-DCA) has not. Therefore I sit a frustratingly short 994 MQMs short of Silver Medallion. My return flights were on NWA metal, and Delta now takes at least 24 hours to post miles, so I’m hopeful that the miles show up this evening, or tomorrow morning at the latest. If not, I’m calling SkyMiles.
Congrats on your Elite this year, Marshall. Hope to see you in the front of the bus soon. As for the posting of your MQMs, I learned they are much slower when they have to come from NW, maybe a couple more days. This ‘merger’ thing is anything but fast. Just a side note about the merger: They still have a long way to go. For example, there are flts that show up on the NW site that don’t show on DL. Very weird. Speaking of weird, my hubby and I are on the same flt in a couple weeks… Read more »
Thanks Carol! I snooped around Flyertalk this morning and found some of the issues you mentioned. It seems Delta is using NWA’s IT for storing SkyMiles data. Probably a good move in the long run, but sure makes the short run interesting.