As a part of a slew of modifications to the Delta SkyMiles Medallion program, the incomes metric generally known as MQMs goes into the dustbin of historical past. Accumulating Medallion Qualification Miles has been one of the crucial uncommon and enjoyable methods to pursue standing with Delta Air Traces. Now Delta is ditching the annual rollover profit that used to allow you to start annually with an MQM enhance of nonetheless many MQMs over final 12 months’s standing degree you went.
Delta has now gone to a easier metric: Medallion Qualification {Dollars}, or MQDs. These are primarily a measure of how a lot you spend with Delta Air Traces in its many iterations.
The excellent news is that the additional MQMs you might have sitting in your account can nonetheless be very helpful. Delta has now made a number of one-time conversion decisions stay in your Delta SkyMiles account.
Delta Air Traces’ rollover MQM choices are actually stay
Delta was one of many few applications that allow you to roll over extra MQMs you amassed throughout the standing 12 months into the following elite standing qualification 12 months. Some individuals (together with me) had amassed tons of of 1000’s of additional MQMs over time, and there have been fears they would not be value a lot now that Delta has moved towards an all-MQD world.
However Delta got here by ultimately, providing a singular alternative for some top-tier elite members.
Delta made these rollover choices stay in a single day.
Elite members can deplete their rollover MQMs from final 12 months by extending their 2024 standing. For each 100,000 rollover MQMs you had sitting in your account after the top of 2023, you’ll be able to select to increase your standing by a 12 months.
You should have till Dec. 31 to determine how you prefer to your rollover MQMs to be transformed.
You possibly can select to transform your MQMs to MQDs, miles or a mixture of each. Listed below are these decisions:
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- 100% redeemable miles, 0% MQDs
- 75% redeemable miles, 25% MQDs
- 50% redeemable miles, 50% MQDs
- 25% redeemable miles, 75% MQDs
- 0% redeemable miles, 100% MQDs
Members with MQM rollover balances over 100,000 also can select to increase their 2024 Medallion standing for one 12 months for each 100,000 rollover MQMs.
I used to be sitting on 108,671 rollover MQMs. 100 thousand of these MQMs can be utilized to increase my Diamond standing by a 12 months. Which means I will be Delta Diamond by 2025 (and a part of 2026) simply by way of MQMs. That’s fairly a perk and is the one which I selected.
As you’ll be able to see within the screenshot beneath, I elected to increase my standing by a 12 months. I’ll now have top-tier Diamond Medallion standing by Jan. 31, 2026.
That left me with simply 8,671 rollover MQMs. Since I’ll have standing already, I selected to earn the additional miles. I did not love the conversion charge of two:1, however I am going to take what I can get.
As soon as you have made your choices, you could verify the alternatives on one other web page.
That is it. Delta then warns that the conversion will take as much as 48 hours to be utilized to your SkyMiles account.
I will be monitoring and can replace this story when the rollover standing and further miles really hit my account.
Backside line
Delta Air Traces in a single day made its MQM rollover decisions stay for its SkyMiles prospects with extra rollover MQMs. It is a very nice perk that these with greater than 100,000 MQMs can prolong their standing for a 12 months, and it certain beats the unique announcement that MQMs would solely be accessible for conversion.
In case you are one of many fortunate Delta flyers with a number of MQMs, you may also convert them to MQDs or flip them into redeemable SkyMiles.
I am unhappy to see MQMs go away, however I am thrilled that Delta did not simply abandon these of us who’d amassed additional MQMs over time. It is permitting me to increase my standing till 2026 and can maintain me roped into the SkyMiles universe after I might strongly thought of abandoning this system altogether. Along with this rollover profit and the enhancements Delta made to its American Specific cobranded bank cards, I’ll follow Delta for the following few years on the very least.
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