Back in May I made Delta Platinum, their 75K flight-miles threshold. The next threshold is Diamond, at 125K another 50K away. Since Delta has a rollover feature to its program my strategy had been to accumulate as many miles as I naturally would up to 124,999. That way I'd roll lots over and be almost to 50K (Delta Gold) early in the year. Yesterday I rethought my strategy: I'm going for Diamond. Why?
Well, because I have a Delta co-branded AmEx, I received an offer in the mail earlier this year offering me bonus miles for reaching Gold or higher: 25K bonus miles for Gold, 50K for Platinum, and 100K for Diamond. So, by reaching Diamond I'll be getting another 50K. (To put that into perspective, our $1500 ticket to Buenos Aires in June cost just 60K Delta points.) And, when I get to Diamond, Delta will gift me 20K miles and $200 toward a future flight. And, I get a 100% bonus in addition to whatever miles I fly: flying 1000 gets me a credit of 2000 miles.
This past week I calculated how many points I have and found out I needed just 12,600 points to get to Diamond. My analysis showed me that I could fly those 12,600 miles and realize a return of almost 100,000 miles. I decided it was worth it. I was going to book my first pure mileage run. Of course, I've added on legs and segments before but I've never taken a trip just solely for the points.
My mileage run comes in November and takes me from Baltimore to Seattle via Salt Lake City, on to Warsaw via Paris, and back to Dulles. It's a little daunting but it will certainly be an adventure! Details to follow and certainly postings to my website.
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