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I’m not sure if we’re late to the party on this one but I just noticed existing points balances for Delta SkyBonus — the airline’s reward program for small and mid-size businesses — will not expire this year. That wasn’t the case in 2022.
Delta says on the SkyBonus member page:
As a courtesy to our members, SkyBonus points won’t be expiring in December 2023 as we prepare for the final cutover to SkyMiles for Business.
Ensure you have opted in to SkyMiles for Business and we will migrate your account to the new digital experience. We will convert any remaining points earned into miles following a 3 points to 1 mile conversion ratio. You will be informed via email when we are migrating your account.
(However, Delta SkyBonus credits with a 2022 expiration date that were extended into this year will expire on December 31, 2023.)
You may remember Delta announced it’s converting the SkyBonus program into SkyMiles for Business. Instead of SkyBonus points redeemable for a variety of awards, members will instead earn SkyMiles.
That change was supposed to take effect this past October. Alas, here were are in December and the switchover still hasn’t happened. Part of me thinks that’s because of the chaos surrounding the SkyMiles Medallion changes announced in September and October.
No doubt about it: Delta has significantly devalued SkyBonus during the past several years. But I’m still a member and enjoying earning something. I appreciate that the airline isn’t expiring points this year.
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Thanks for post. Didn’t even know about Delta Sky Bonus.
Thanks for the reminder Chris!
To Delta’s credit they’ve sent the administrator’s for SkyBonus companies multiple emails reminding them about upcoming YE expirations. I logged in and had ~200,000 expiring at YE. I was able to get SkyClub passes that I gave out to employees for holiday travel. Not an amazing amount of value out of the program, but it’s a little something extra.
I haven’t seen any emails. Maybe Gmail decided to funnel them into one of their cutesy folders or something.
Great gift for your employees!!
I hadn’t received any notices. Thanks for the reminder!
Clarification about the Delta SkyBonus program: Is the $5k airfare requirement the amount of spending with Delta as opposed to the company’s airfare budget as a whole? If yes, AA instituted a similar spending requirement for Business Extra. Thanks in advance.
$5,000 cumulative across eligible SkyTeam airline purchases (i.e., Delta, AeroMexico, etc.)
I never got any emails and just noticed I lost 2M points! Had anyone had any luck getting these extended or getting retroactive certificates ?
I have the delta skymiles platinum card. Have skymiles points. Am I going to lose them? Don’t understand if the sky bonus program affects my points. Please explain.
SkyMiles don’t expire until you do.
The SkyBonus website is badly broken now and the new one isn’t up and running yet. Probably the reason for the extension. They also sent out an email last week showing 0 balances then had to re-send showing correct balances. Typical Delta IT issues.