Delta offers lifetime status for Silver, Gold, or Platinum and they are now offering lifetime Diamond status. The requirements for lifetime status are:
- Silver: Earn 1 million miles
- Gold: Earn 2 million miles
- Platinum: Earn 4 million miles
- Diamond: Earn 6 million miles
Normally Diamond status requires earning 125,000 MQM in a year so don’t think a lot of people will be qualifying for lifetime Diamond status.
Hat tip to OMaaT
Can we get a Lifetime Copper Status, to get started?
Sweet! Only 48 years to go!!!
An $900 round trip Delta ticket from Dulles to Tokyo (via Detroit) in May 2019 netted me just about 12,000 miles. $900 was one of those days where the price dropped before going back up to normal price (in this case almost $1100). I don’t think Delta has the same service to Tokyo at the moment, as I’m only seeing $10,000 tickets that code share with other airlines like Korean Air. But that aside:
1,000,000 / 12,000 = 83.333 flights. Call it 84.
84 * $900 = $75,600 if you tried to earn this the traditional way of flying.
2, 4 and 6 mil would be $151,200, $302,400 and $453,600, respectively. Again, this is on the best of days, getting the best prices when it dips. So this is the LOW end of cost. There is no limit to the high end…
Not really. Your math is correct, for your case, but not the best case/day.
Every year, I travel to SGN from RDU for work twice. Round trip ticket RDU-SGN (via SEA/ATL and ICN) is around $900-$1100 and nets me 19k MQM.
Using your logic, 1 mil is approx. $52k and 6 mils is $312k. Again, this is NOT on the best of days, NOT getting the best prices when it dips.So this is a LOWER end of cost.
How many status levels do these airlines have?
Typically, some have 3, some have 4. They may also have additional invitation-only status levels, but those are not earnable in documented ways.
Remember when Delta tried to suppress votes in Georgia.
Remember when people actually gave two shits about this? Yeah, me neither.
Try virtue signaling harder next time.
By next year it will be “Cubic Zirconia” status.
I meant “anonymous.”
How much MS needs to be done for each levels lol asking for a friend
Enough for a Fr with Amex
MS won’t get you there, no matter how much MS you do. You need lifetime flight miles (what Delta calls MQMs), not lifetime redeemable miles. So credit card miles don’t count in most cases. (The very few MQMs you MIGHT be able to earn annually with certain credit cards won’t get you even to Lifetime Silver.)
Airlines closed this loophole long ago. American was the last, they didn’t close it until late in 2011 (all miles from all sources counted toward either Lifetime Gold or Lifetime Platinum). But then American has never yet created Lifetime Executive Platinum (and meanwhile long after 2011 American added annual Platinum Pro in between annual Platinum and annual Executive Platinum).
And “MS” as a term didn’t even exist yet back in 2011. Of course, back in the 2000s, spend requirements for credit card bonuses were much smaller, so easier to do with “natural” spend, and there weren’t yet “anti-churning” measures at banks.
LOL. Pre-2011 were the very best MS years. I remember when you could buy dollar coins from the US Mint with no limit..
Yes, but I don’t think the term “MS” had been created pre-2011. The earliest reference I can find to something even similar is a thread FlyerTalk about “Ways to manufacture miles with BA Chase visa card” from 2011. Nowhere in that thread other than in the title is term “manufacture” actually with the term “spending”.
Now, that doesn’t meant that MSing wasn’t going on, my point is just that the people doing it weren’t yet using the term “MS” back then.
There was no real need for the “MS” term as long as there only one method (US Mint coins) of doing it. From what I recall, the use of the term “MS” grew only as other methods of “MS” became known. (You don’t a category name for something where there’s only item in the category.)
I think if you got all 4 delta AMEX cards you could earn 160k MQM/yr by MSing about $340,000.
1 – Silver – 2.125 million and 7 years
2 – Gold – 4.25 million and 13 years
3 – Plat – 8.5 million and 25 years
4 – Diamond – 12.75 million and 38 years
“Delta reserves the right to terminate your membership in the SkyMiles program at any time if you violate the SkyMiles Membership Guide and Program Rules, any term or condition of Delta’s contract of carriage, Delta’s fare rules, or any other Delta rule and regulation that apply to your travel.”
Lol!
” Congrats on getting 6 million miles! We took a look at your past 50 years of flying with us and saw that you skipped a leg back in ’75 so your account is terminated..”
“Dear Valued Delta Customer, we looked at your travel history with us and decided that you are WAY too young to have legitimately qualified for lifetime anything. Since you are not George Clooney’s character from Up in the Air, we will be revoking your SkyMiles status as well as all pending global upgrades, your lifetime CLEAR membership, medallion luggage tags, and that $200 Tiffany & Co. gift card you received last month. We’re not sorry for the inconvenience we have caused you (unless you make a big fat stink about it on social media and the 11 PM news covers your story).”
11pm won’t cut it. 8pm or bust