[Targeted] American Express Delta Gold Upgrade Offer 40,000 Miles

The Offer

  • American Express is offering some Delta Blue cardholders 40,000 miles when they upgrade to the Delta Gold card and spend $2,000 within the first two months

Card Details

  • Annual fee of $99
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 2x miles per $1 spent on restaurants (including takeout and delivery), groceries and Delta purchases
    • 1x miles per $1 spent on all other purchases
  • $100 Delta Flight Credit when you spend $10,000 in purchases on your Card in a calendar year
  • First Checked Bag Free
  • 20% Back on In-flight Purchases
  • Receive Main Cabin 1 Priority Boarding on Delta flights

Our Verdict

The nice things about upgrade offers is that you can get the bonus even if you’ve held that card before. If you have any other questions regarding American Express upgrade offers click here.

Hat tip to reader @JasonLeeeee8

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Gerald
Gerald (@guest_1303627)
December 21, 2021 20:35

Having done the upgrade from Blue to Gold, I’m getting offers to upgrade to Platinum. Bonus is 50K plus $200 for $3000 spend in six months. I recently hit my $2000 spend on the Gold and got my 40K bonus. Since I was told that I’d forfeit my miles if I didn’t leave it open for a year, I called to see if this applies to upgrades as well as downgrades. I was told it doesn’t, so I’m considering the Platinum upgrade.

Gerald
Gerald (@guest_1237914)
August 11, 2021 19:36

Just got an email for this deal. A while ago my wife got a snail mail offer for 50K miles to upgrade to Platinum with $3000 spend in 6 months, with $200 cash partially offsetting the $250 fee. I thought 53,000 miles for $50 and $3000 spend was good, but 42,000 for $0 and $2000 spend is better. Unlike my wife’s offer, I don’t see an expiration date on this one.

BTW, there’s an error in “The Offer.” Says two months, should be six.

Morgan
Morgan (@guest_1232548)
August 2, 2021 01:07

I had the gold card in 2018 after getting a 75k mile offer. Downgraded a year and a day to blue which I’ve sockdrawered since. Just got a 40k mile + no annual fee 1 year re-upgrade offer which I took and will downgrade again in a year. Good perks but I don’t travel enough to justify the annual fee and have different cards that I get better rewards based on my spending. Hope others get the same offer!

SJ
SJ (@guest_1226746)
July 21, 2021 19:08

I downgraded from Delta Gold to the Delta Blue beginning of the year and I got the offer to upgrade to Gold for 40k points so that’s pretty cool. I am on the fence because I recently opened the Delta Gold Business card so adding another Gold card will do me no good. Any thoughts on a strategy?

Blake
Blake (@guest_1227056)
July 22, 2021 09:50
  SJ

Just do it for the bonus and downgrade again in 1 year

VL
VL (@guest_1227488)
July 22, 2021 22:08
  SJ

If you go for it make sure to keep it for the full 12 months + few days at least! Otherwise you will violation T&C of the offer.

Nate
Nate (@guest_1226506)
July 21, 2021 12:57

I got a similar offer but upgrading my platinum to Reserve for 60K miles and $300 statement credit. Need to spend $4K in 6 months to obtain.

Bryce
Bryce (@guest_1226480)
July 21, 2021 12:29

Got an offer to upgrade for…5,000 miles after $500 spend. Lame.

phare1902
phare1902 (@guest_1232527)
August 2, 2021 00:03

Double check your email. 5k/$500 is the same offer I got to add an authorized user to my blue card… Two weeks later I got the 40k upgrade offer.

Julien
Julien (@guest_1226465)
July 21, 2021 12:09

I got this offer and took advantage of it but mine says no fee the first year, which is even better.

Dave P
Dave P (@guest_1226709)
July 21, 2021 18:05

Same here. Got this offer last month (I had previously held the gold and downgraded to the blue). No annual fee the first year on the upgrade back to Gold.

YK3
YK3 (@guest_1226815)
July 21, 2021 21:28

Same here too. My original gold card i got for a 75k miles offer was downgraded to blue and sockdrawered for 1-2 years after i hit spend req.

SMan
SMan (@guest_1226457)
July 21, 2021 11:56

I did not get for Delta card. But got it for Blue Cash to Blue Cash Preferred Card. $150 bonus for $1,000 spend, first year annual fee of $95 waived. Should I go for it ? Also I am assuming there is no hard pull to upgrade.

MAS
MAS (@guest_1226539)
July 21, 2021 13:50

There is no pull for an upgrade. If you take the upgrade offer you will not be eligible for the sign-up bonus on BCP.

Andrew
Andrew (@guest_1226456)
July 21, 2021 11:55

I received this offer in March or so and did it. I also received one for an upgrade for the same (now gold) card to Delta Platinum for 50K + $200 statement credit after $3000 spend in 6 months yesterday and took that as well.

mark
mark (@guest_1226416)
July 21, 2021 11:20

Weird. I got this email and the link worked for me. I took the offer.