Delta SkyMiles and World of Hyatt are launching a new loyalty partnership with dual earning benefits, coming just as Hyatt ends its American AAdvantage alliance.
Didn't think of this on my bingo card today. I wonder what they will eventually offer. For someone who flies Delta and is a globalist, I hope there is some reciprocal value, not just a status match.
@ relidtm -- I suspect you'll earn one point or so per dollar spent with the other brand, with some restrictions. At least that's what American and Hyatt offered.
Right after I ruin Hyatt I'll be sure to make up some number about Delta's revenue being close to 1% of GDP when it's actually 0.5%. Oh wait...already did that.
Sounds like white collar my guy...hope you don't work for Delta in any official capacity or you might have SEC knocking on your door.
Ahh, so much 'Premium!!!' So, when does this going live?
Dual earn in American was great. Current milestone awards were worthless to me as AA Lifetime Platinum.
Do dual earn with Delta will be better than the last set of benefits but not as good as dual earn with American.
The have your cake and eat it airline + The have your cake and eat it hotel chain, finally together.
Maybe Hyatt saw more of their Globalists live in Delta hubs.
Love how the lazy PR teams at both brands have their CEO's spit out a pithy opening statement followed by the telltale AI m—dash.
Honestly, I think this is more about adding more value to the Delta SkyMiles program in a "lifestyle" way. Adding more auxiliary benefits to make it more valuable is a decent way to make Delta SkyMiles more attractive.
My experience with service recovery with American, its overall AA program and generally terrible customer service on a normal day makes it no wonder why Hyatt is moving on. The lack of coordination between AA and BA at Heathrow is classic terrible customer experience and glad Hyatt is coming to Delta.
A post about delta leveling up its premiumnessness and a certain someone hasn’t commented… Ben, maybe you were right.
Considering Im at a Delta location, and Im a globalist I have high hopes for this partnership. reciprocal points/miles sounds great. Hopefully this includes Mr and Mrs Smith bookings.
Writing was on the wall when AA Exec refresh offered Omni Champion status (oh so appealing to tens of people).
They will partner with every other hotel company but MARRIOTT.
@Nanoshi Tokio--That seems to be true but it's likely because UA partners with Marriott. High level Marriott elite status gets one low level UA status, which is absolutely better than nothing--but not great in the absolute sense.
I would very much like to see a status match at Hyatt based on Delta status but I am not holding my breath, as that would require Delta to reciprocate.
Ben, this may work out well for you. With this partnership if it is something like the current AA-Hyatt partnership, you may be Diamond Medallion on Delta as a Lifetime Globalist.
As an EXP, Diamond, and Globalist, once dual earning went away they might as well have killed the partnership. The FNAs were/are lousy value and nothing Hyatt was offering as a milestone award was worthwhile. So all the value has been dead here for a while and this feels like it can't help but be a gain.
I'll be curious as to what comes of this - MQD earning at Hyatt (even at a reduced rate a la the AA LP earning) would help reverse the sting of the devaluations, for example. But it's also possible to imagine some really "weak sauce" offerings that make me wonder why they've bothered, too.
Delta still maintaining their "strategic partnership" with Hilton, concurrently, or is that being scaled back to a more generic partnership, in favor of this?