We’re reposting this to clarify. According to American Express no changes have been made and you can continue to earn MQM’s from multiple cards. The fine print included on card member statements was intended to clarify the existing rules.Â
American Express Delta cardholders should have received a letter containing changes to their card member agreement:
You may receive a Miles Boost award based on your eligible purchases for the calendar year. A calendar year is from January 1 to December 31 regardless of when you open your Card Account. This means in your first year as a Card Member you may have fewer months to accumulate eligible purchases towards a Miles Boost award.
The Miles Boost award and the eligible purchases required to receive the bonus are shown below.
| Annual Eligible Purchases | Miles Boost Award |
|---|---|
| $30,000.00 | 15,000 miles and 15,000 Medallion Qualification Miles |
| $60,000 or more | An additional 15,000 miles and 15,000 Medallion Qualification Miles |
Some Miles Boost award restrictions
You can now only get two Miles Boost awards for each Card account. In addition, if you have more than one Reserve Card Account linked to the same SkyMiles account, you are eligible for only two Miles Boost awards each year.
Delta offers a personal and business version of the Reserve card. They also offer a personal & business version of the Platinum card. It’s currently unclear if you will be limited to two miles boost awards each year across reserve & platinum cards (e.g if you had all four you’d still be limited to two) or if you’re be limited to two miles boost awards each year for reserve cards and another two for platinum cards.
I suspect this won’t affect most readers as the spend involved is significant, but some people are/were generating high level elite status with Delta. If you’re in this situation you might want to consider another card that offers a spending bonus.
Hat tip to /r/churning
Exactly–which is what set them apart, until now. Instead of standing for consistency, AMEX’s calling-card now is changing things up (usually for the negative) with little notice for cardmembers. Granted, Citi did this with the Prestige 4th-night-free and AA airfare valuation, but even Citi gave almost a year of notice.
As others above have pointed out, maybe nothing has changed, and that the wording is just to close a loophole that prevents me from having 4 Business Reserve cards and getting MQM boosts from all of them. But since AMEX can’t even seem to answer if I’ll get credit for the Reserve and Platinum, and I’m trying to decide where to spend money and cannot evaluate what it’s worth to spend it on AMEX….its utility diminishes considerably.
Although it’s tied to Delta, for my part another foul up for AMEX. First they reneg on the Business Platinum airfare value, so I move my large spend to Reserve card, at least I’ll get some kind of status out of it. Au contrarie mon frere. At this point there is no reason to spend on AMEX after $60,000, and since with Reserve this would only get silver medallion on Delta anyway which is almost worthless, there really is no reason whatsoever to use AMEX at all. I’ve been a fan for more than 10 years, but it’s time to move on. AMEX, you are not competitive. And when you announce something competitive, you backtrack less than six months later, which undermines cardmember loyalty. Not a good combination.
Amex is falling behind in some areas, but the idea that people should be able to spend their way to top airline status — on top of the miles earned for the spending — is rather absurd. No other card issuer offers such a thing.
Of course this happens when I was only a few grand away from getting Gold Medallion. Dang it!
Could it be that you are entitled to 2x for personal and 2x for business if you have both versions of Plat or Reserve? Seems unclear at this point.
Could be possible. But if that’s the case what’s changing?
This bugged me so I called them up. First of all the rep had no idea of any changes that occurred. Upon further researching the issue (about 5 min wait) she came back and said she got a supervisor involved and she told me that you can still get 2x boost for EACH PRODUCT (i.e. 2x boost for personal plat, 2x boost for personal reserve, 2x boost for biz plat and 2x boost for biz reserve).
I would take it with a grain of salt since from what it sounds like NOTHING has changed from what was already known, and I guess we won’t really know for sure until someone don’t get the boost after meeting the spend.
Renes Points claims that if you had multiples of the same business card (e.g. two Delta Business Reserves for two separate “businesses”) you could get 30k MQMs for each. The new wording would eliminate that, while still potentially allowing for MilesBoosts from each of four separate products (Personal Plat, Biz Plat, Personal Reserve, Biz Reserve)
This is what I believe to be true. You can have multiple of 1 card product through upgrade or pc.