{"id":4820,"date":"2022-07-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:33:53","slug":"delta-medallion-upgrades-and-big-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/delta-medallion-upgrades-and-big-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Medallion Upgrades and Big Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta\u2019s Medallion elite members <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/us\/en\/skymiles\/medallion-program\/medallion-upgrades\">are eligible for complimentary upgrades to First Class and Comfort+ seats<\/a> when traveling alone or with a single companion on non-basic economy fares, but if you have three or more people booked on the same PNR (passenger name record \/ confirmation code), then no one is eligible for an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a simple travel hack to get around the limitation and as long as you\u2019re willing to split a group\u2019s reservation, it\u2019s easy for a companion to get an upgrade along side every traveling Medallion member. <\/p>\n<h4>The Trick<\/h4>\n<p>To get an upgrade for an elite and a companion as part of a larger booking, all you need to do is contact Delta over the phone or chat and ask them to \u201csplit the PNR for the Medallion member and a companion\u201d from the rest of the group. On splitting, the Medallion member and companion will get a new PNR and the rest of the group will remain on the old PNR. The new PNR will be eligible to add to both the First Class and Comfort+ upgrade lists like any regular booking.<\/p>\n<h4>Notes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>You can split a PNR multiple times, especially useful with multiple elites and multiple companions<\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t ever recombine a split PNR<\/li>\n<li>During normal schedule changes Delta tends to rebook automatically in chunks via PNR so there\u2019s a small chance that you may end up with separate flights for each PNR after a schedule change. For this reason, I\u2019d only split the PNR right before your upgrade window starts unless you like dealing with Delta over the phone<\/li>\n<li>During <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fairfly.com\/glossary\/irregular-operations-irops\/\">IROPs<\/a>, the same automatic rebooking engine could split you across different flights, so <em>caveat emptor<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The companions left without a medallion in their group will lose priority access on their boarding passes, but they can still board with the elite (just say: \u201cthey\u2019re with me\u201d at boarding)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good luck and happy upgrades!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4821\" height=\"360\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/split.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/split.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/split-300x225.jpeg 300w\" width=\"480\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Using ultra-high speed cameras, science captures the exact moment that a Delta PNR splits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta\u2019s Medallion elite members are eligible for complimentary upgrades to First Class and Comfort+ seats when traveling alone or with a single companion on non-basic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6992,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}