I have been a loyal Delta customer for over a decade. I would endure layovers, longer durations, older planes, no personal TVs, older and less attractive female flight attendants just to fly Delta or SkyTeam members. Although to make the same status for me means an extra 1-2 domestic short-haul flights a year depending on the MQD. After reading some official information on the restructuring of MQM calculations, MQD calculations, I no longer see the benefit of Skymiles and will seek alternative programs. Delta took away a lot of benefits and added more rules to make status, but they didn't even bother to strengthen the status benefits.

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