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I have received a bunch of positive feedback on my series covering my flight crossing the million mile mark lifetime with Delta Air Lines and the next part in the series will be the actual 747 that brought me across that line. But that is for later on.
Right now there seems to be a bug on Delta.com that has a bunch of folks rather annoyed. As expected, there is even a long thread about this ongoing bug on FlyerTalk. I have not personally been affected by this bug and as you can see looking at my total above Delta.com is correctly displaying my number. But now look at my wife’s progress toward becoming a million miler:
Ruh roo! BLANK. What happened to her totals? Now in the grand scheme of things for most folks this is not a big deal at all as it can take many many years of constant flying to reach 1 million miles but I can understand many like to track their progress on their MY DELTA page that has SkyMiles information.
So what are your options to check up on your totals until this bug is squished and fixed? Well you can always reach out to Delta on twitter via @Delta (that was @DeltaAssist before). But there is a much faster option. Simply do this:
1) Log in to Delta.com
2) Click on THIS link
What you are going to see is a bunch of what looks like gibberish but if you carefully look in the middle of the page you will see your “lifetimeMQM” followed by your total number of MQMs.
There happens to be a bunch more fun raw data to check out as well including things like:
- AMEX spend totals across all cards
- Million Miler Member Tier i.e. 1MM, 2MM etc.
- If you are an International Customer i.e. MQD exempt
- Lots of other bits
Maybe it is just me as a Tech Geek but I find all this vs the pretty graphical representations on Delta.com (when working) to be fascinating and I look forward to visiting this link in January to see if it updates faster than the home page when I am working on again meeting my MQD exempt spend in a few weeks next year.
This Medallion raw data link reminds me of the previous hidden raw data link that many blogs, and FlyerTalk, talked about regarding your value as a customer and other background data that can be found via THIS link. We all know Delta loves data and data about us.
Anyway, I am sure Delta will fix this one day soon but until then we have other means to keep up to date on our million mile balances as well as other information. Have you found any other raw data links like the ones above that work to display your personal Delta info and facts? – René
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Me 40,046
Wife 67,461
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Rene, once years back you had a link that showed how they rated you as a customer – value, spend, type etc that was interesting – does it still exist? I’m at 1,340,000 mqm now, It shows date I qualified at MM too.
@Kevin – included in this post
Before you click “this link”, make sure you are logged in first else you’ll see computer jibberish with a “not logged in” cryptic message. Thanks Rene.
Scott
2.4M miles and climbing- what happens at 3M miles?
Rene, speaking of website glitches, what do you make of this:
http://www.freep.com/story/travel/2016/07/01/weird-airfare-shows-13735-detroit-san-francisco-flight/86599398/
Alan
And I’m at just over 490,000 MQM. Got a little ways to go yet.
@Alan – My thoughts are here: https://twitter.com/RenesPoints/status/748665180742090752
Thanks for posting this.
Rene, duh, sorry. But that link for me doesn’t say much or have codes listed. Seems different.
@Kevin – Are you logged in before you click?
Tip: I use the Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc “JSON View” that pretty formats it 🙂
I just checked in with AMEX and I have had the Business gold in the past so I am not eligible. If someone else joins up, can they gift me the MQM from the sign on bonus? Or if I sign up for a second business platinum under a separate business do i get the MQM?
@Diane – New cars bonus can not be gifted. You can still get the card yourself just not bonus again
Hi Rene- I applied for the Platinum Business card and used your link.Application approval is pending…Trying for Diamond again this year… flying Business class to Paris was heavenly. Thanks for all your guidance!
@Rene, I clicked “THIS LINK” above (after logging in), and this “stuff” is what I see:
{“v01″:”ISN”,”v02″:”US”,”v03″:”Y”,”v07″:”DM”,”v08″:”RB”,”v10″:”N”,”v19″:”Y”,”v20″:”Y”,”v27″:”Y”,”v29″:”N”,”v38″:”0FU7BP,0FW0CR,0FV5BP”,”v39″:”en”,”v40″:”us”}
Is there a secret decoder ring or am I doing something wrong?
@Scott – See link at FlyerTalk in post for decoding guess
here is my guess for the no MM displayed “bug”.
I wonder if it has anything to do when the account was “gifted” Silver or Gold status? I suspect your wife has that gift, no? I gifted my husband to Gold this year and now don’t see that MM # anymore in the normal display.
just a guess of course.
@Rene – Any word on when Delta is going to fix this bug? I’m starting to think they’re going to do away with Million Miler now that you have it : )
@Keat – Have not asked. There is the way to find out now with links in post 🙂
Almost there although I don’t fly much anymore lifetimeMQM”:932451
@Rick – Oh man you gotta push it over the top. Even if just with CC bonus MQMs “-)
I found this interesting line after following your directions
“showNewMQDWaiverCopy”:”true”,
Amazing. Thanks ‘a million’ for this post. 103k away for my first million. So happy this works still as of 4/3/19
Hi. Thanks for the link re . lifetime MQMs, or Million miller miles. My problem is, I have just discovered that Delta is not adding my MQM to my lifetime total, or million miller miles. This actually might have been happening for some years. Any suggestions? Like can I see my yearly totals for these in past years? Thx, Eric
I just checked on delta.com and my lifetime MQMs show up . Is the glitch that it only shows for those who have already qualified for MM status)?
It is interesting what the hidden links show. I remember the furor on FlyerTalk when they posted the “value status” link a few years ago. I was a bit shocked at what they knew (or thought they knew as some of it was quite inaccurate) about me that was non-flying related. I followed your link just now and a lot of that information has been zeroed out.