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FINAL DAY: Select Your 2023 Delta Choice Benefits!

Chris Carley by Chris Carley
January 31, 2024
in Travel Related
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A Delta Air Lines 767-300 (tail number N174DZ) arrives at a Terminal 3 gate at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in California.

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If you held Delta Diamond or Platinum Medallion elite status in 2023 but didn’t select your Choice Benefits, you may still do so — but hurry! This is your last chance.

Here Are Your Two Choices

The Medallion year expires today, January 31. And so do most of the benefits you can select.

  • Unless you’re flying today and find a flight with available, confirmed Global or Regional Upgrade inventory, then Upgrade Certificates won’t be a good choice. (And that assumes they’re issued within a few hours — if at all today.)
  • Sky Club membership? Valid through the rest of today.
  • Gift Gold or Silver Medallion status to someone? You’re certainly generous — but the recipient can enjoy the benefits through the rest of today.

So, that leaves you with two realistic options: bonus SkyMiles or a Delta Travel Voucher.

  • Platinum Medallions may select 20,000 bonus redeemable SkyMiles. It’s a little sweeter for Diamonds: they can receive 25,000. SkyMiles don’t expire until you do.
  • The Delta Travel Voucher is valued at $200 both Platinums and Diamonds, expires 12 months after it’s issued, and may be used only by the Medallion member (e.g., you).

Which should you pick?

I generally opt for miles. They can be used to book travel for others (my wife, daughter, etc.). Plus, SkyMiles award travel earns Medallion Qualification Dollars (MQD). Sure, the voucher earns redeemable SkyMiles for your trip. That’s worth considering. But for the sake of ease, I chose miles.

Plus, they go even further if you hold an eligible Delta SkyMiles® Amex card and can take advantage of the TakeOff 15 benefit.

The 25,000 SkyMiles are worth more, in my opinion, than a $200 voucher. Delta seems to value SkyMiles at around a penny each for most award redemptions. Therefore 25,000 SkyMiles are worth about $250.

Here’s where you can select your Choice Benefits.

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Chris Carley is the owner, editor, and lead writer of Eye of the Flyer (formerly known as Rene's Points).

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"Stuttgart airport, Germany - August 20, 2011: A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-300(ER) is taking off to Atlanta. Delta Air Lines is the world's largest airline with some 716 planes and 111 million passengers in 2010. The airline's main hub is at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. There's a daily flight connection from Stuttgart to Atlanta."

Thoughts on Delta's Latest Changes to the SkyMiles Program

Comments 16

  1. Norris says:
    1 year ago

    Website does not permit selection of 2023 Benefits! I have complained but who knows…

    Reply
    • René says:
      1 year ago

      @Norris – Picked all mine but that was before 1JAN24 so…

      After logging in are you using: https://www.delta.com/choicebenefits/showBenefits.action

      Reply
      • NorrisNorris says:
        1 year ago

        Yes, alas…

        I’m wondering if the online rep is in Asia (where it’s already Feb 1)?

        Reply
        • Norris says:
          1 year ago

          since I reached Platinum on Dec 25, Delta says I do not qualify (even though they sent me an email saying I did…)
          Sigh…

          Reply
  2. Joe Juarez says:
    1 year ago

    Chris – any suggestions for 2024 Choice Benefits?
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Chris Carley says:
      1 year ago

      We’ll go over that in the near future. I didn’t want to get everything confused with the 2023 benefits. Lord knows there’s already confusion with the SkyMiles 2025 program changes and all that to make all of our heads spin!

      Reply
  3. dee says:
    1 year ago

    DONE!!!

    Reply
  4. Norris Krueger says:
    1 year ago

    I am on a frustrating chat with Delta – the rep is claiming that the deadline is past.
    Any advice?
    TIA!

    Reply
    • Chris Carley says:
      1 year ago

      Did you go to the page I linked to in the post?

      Reply
    • Joe Juarez says:
      1 year ago

      I did mind this morning. You have to look for 2023 Choice Benefits, which is at the bottom. Confusing as 2024 Choice benefits selections are at the top of the page.

      Reply
  5. Norris says:
    1 year ago

    @Chris – I did!
    @Joe – there is no live link (the only link took to a page with only 2024). Got the sam result with laptop and with phone…
    UPDATE from Delta: since I reached Platinum on Dec 25, Delta says I do not qualify (even though they sent me an email saying I did…)
    Sigh…

    Reply
    • Chris Carley says:
      1 year ago

      If you qualified for status on December 25, 2023, that’s for the 2024 Medallion year.

      Reply
      • Norris says:
        1 year ago

        They said they had emailed me inviting me to select the 2023 benefits but that their email was in error. (Also said that the choice benefits website had been slammed.) Got an apology – and it’s only 20K miles so.
        More important, I am grateful for your (& Rene’s & Joe’s) supportiveness!

        Reply
        • Chris Carley says:
          1 year ago

          This is weird. I’m starting to hear from more people about the same problem.

          Reply
  6. T.A. Hopkins says:
    1 year ago

    As a 2 million mile delta loyalist, i couldn’t be more disappointed. They continually make dumb moves and then retract some of them. Maybe instead of people who have no experiential basis for their decisions they should listen to their loyal frequent diamond flyers. To offer a single membership for the delta lounge memberships and for 2023 but not 2024 and then reallow for 2025? Since when does that make any sense other than to alienate people like me?

    Reply
    • René says:
      1 year ago

      @TA – Sadly the ONLY thing Delta values is mega spend. Those like you who are loyal are not important clearly. Maybe one day they will wake up but that day is not today sad to say.

      Reply

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