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Select credit card holders can earn bonus Delta Air Lines SkyMiles– and maybe Medallion® Qualification Dollars (MQD) — when purchasing Delta gift cards — thanks to a new, targeted promotion.
Delta Gift Card American Express Offer
Targeted Delta SkyMiles American Express Card members can earn 2,500 bonus SkyMiles after spending at least $500 on one or more eligible purchases of Delta gift cards at the US website delta.com/giftcards/amex.
The offer expires on July 14, 2026. As with other Amex Offers, terms apply, and manual enrollment is required.
It appears only certain Delta SkyMiles members are targeted.
The terms say both physical and electronic gift cards are eligible. Purchases must be made in US dollars and the offer isn’t valid on purchases shipped outside the US. (That’s not a problem for most of us.)
Again, you must purchase these through delta.com/giftcards/amex. The offer won’t work if you buy the Delta gift cards from grocery stores, big box stores like Target or Best Buy, or an online gift card vendor such as eGifter or MyGiftCardPlus.
What’s This About Bonus MQD?
If you hold one of four certain Delta Amexes, you might earn MQD for these purchases. Remember that four Delta credit cards earn bonus MQD for certain spending thresholds.
- Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card
- Earn $1 MQD for each $10 in eligible purchases
- Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card
- Earn $1 MQD for each $10 in eligible purchases
- Delta SkyMiles® Platinum American Express Card
- Earn $1 MQD for each $20 in eligible purchases
- Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Business American Express Card
- Earn $1 MQD for each $20 in eligible purchases
Whether gift card purchases count as a “cash equivalent” may technically be a question mark. But I’ve never had a problem, so I think it’s a safe bet to assume you’ll earn the MQD. (That would be a horrible move of Delta and Amex to penalize people for that.)
Are These Considered Delta Purchases?
When I visited the gift card website, I noticed that CashStar is the merchant. So, these purchases should not code as Delta Air Lines spending. In other words, you won’t earn your card’s 2X-3X for Delta purchases. You’ll get the 1X for “all other eligible purchases.”
Do Flights Purchased With Delta Gift Cards Earn SkyMiles and MQD?
Yes! You’ll still earn applicable MQD and redeemable SkyMiles on flights purchased with your Delta gift cards.
The big upshot with the Delta gift card Amex Offer is earning the bonus SkyMiles and MQD on your gift card purchase. Whether or not that’s worth the time, effort, and floating your money until you use the gift card is up to you.
Happy shopping, earning, and traveling!
For rates and fees of the Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card, please visit this link.
For rates and fees of the Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card, please visit this link.
For rates and fees of the Delta SkyMiles® Platinum American Express Card, please visit this link.
For rates and fees of Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Business American Express Card, please visit this link.
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I have the Reserve card but not seeing the offer. Only seeing spend $300, get $20 Starbucks gift card. No thanks.
P.S. There is so much ad slop on this page that it could me 5 minutes to type this because the page kept freezing.
Thanks for the data point and technical feedback. I’ll alert our tech team.
Agree with Bob..lots of big total screen Pop up ads!!
What are some of the specific ads causing problems? Would you prefer we switch to a subscription model where you pay every month for no ads? What would you pay?
Duh … after 1.5 hrs and 2 fraud alerts I finally was able to order $500 worth of GCs …
As I have just now realized and a suggestion for the blog is to remind old geezers and morons such as myself to ENROLL FOR THE OFFER FOR THE OFFER THROUGH THE AMEX ACCOUNT before completing said order. I now have the fun of declining the charge for the 3rd purchase and re-purchasing after adding offer offer in amex account.
all for only 2500 skypesos.
will the blog set up a gofundme with delta points to help my suffering?
You mean the part where I wrote “As with other Amex Offers, terms apply, and manual enrollment is required”? 😉
I have the Reserve card but not seeing the offer. I am also only seeing spend $300, get $20 Starbucks gift card. Am I doing something wrong, or did I not get the offer you are referring to?
Not all Amex Offers are indefinitely available to everyone that gets them —- there’s limited inventory. I’m thinking that’s what happened here.