{"id":23047,"date":"2023-09-28T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/investing\/delta-air-lines-to-adjust-skymiles-program-following-customer-backlash\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T21:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:53:22","slug":"delta-air-lines-to-adjust-skymiles-program-following-customer-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<p><span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. <\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would have increased spending requirements for perks. The news was confirmed by CEO Ed Bastian on Thursday, stating that the company would reassess the program based on customer feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed changes had sparked criticism due to an increased focus on spending, including a $75,000 credit card spend requirement for unlimited access to SkyClub lounges and a doubled requirement for Medallion elite status. These alterations made it more challenging for frequent fliers to reach top levels such as Silver status, which under the new rules would require a minimum spend of $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash is indicative of the delicate balance airlines must strike when modifying loyalty programs. While companies aim to increase profitability and reward high-spending customers, they also risk alienating loyal patrons who may not meet the higher spending thresholds.<\/p>\n<p>Delta&#8217;s decision to adjust its SkyMiles program in response to customer feedback underscores the company&#8217;s commitment to maintaining a rewarding and accessible loyalty program for its frequent fliers. The specifics of these adjustments are yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>InvestingPro data reveals that Delta Air Lines&#8217; market cap stands at an impressive 23.66B USD, reflecting its substantial presence in the industry. The company has also shown a promising revenue growth of 33.38% in the last twelve months till Q2 2023, reaching a total revenue of 55.75B USD. Despite a recent drop in price over the last three months, as indicated by the 1 Month Price Total Return of -13.56%, the company&#8217;s 1 Year Price Total Return shows a positive trend at 24.57%. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, according to InvestingPro Tips, Delta is a prominent player in the Passenger Airlines industry with consistently increasing earnings per share. The company&#8217;s net income is expected to grow this year, a positive sign for potential investors. However, it&#8217;s worth noting that Delta&#8217;s revenue growth has been slowing down recently, and the stock has fared poorly over the last month. <\/p>\n<p>For more detailed insights, investors can check out a host of additional tips and real-time metrics available on InvestingPro.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&amp;C.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/stock-market-news\/delta-air-lines-to-adjust-skymiles-program-following-customer-backlash-93CH-3185784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would have increased spending requirements for perks. The news was confirmed by CEO Ed Bastian on Thursday, stating that the company would reassess the program based on customer feedback. The proposed changes had sparked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-23047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-investing","8":"tag-featured"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash | Micro Loan Nexus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash | Micro Loan Nexus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Micro Loan Nexus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-28T21:53:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-28T21:53:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/LYNXMPEB1A07Q_L.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"News Room\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"News Room\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"News Room\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e2d3b62d35ac325be68540d68dc6660a\"},\"headline\":\"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-28T21:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-28T21:53:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\"},\"wordCount\":387,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Featured\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Investing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\",\"name\":\"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash | Micro Loan Nexus\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-28T21:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-28T21:53:22+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/\",\"name\":\"Solutions For Real\",\"description\":\"Latest Finance News and Updates\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Solutions For Real\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png\",\"width\":690,\"height\":64,\"caption\":\"Solutions For Real\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e2d3b62d35ac325be68540d68dc6660a\",\"name\":\"News Room\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"News Room\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash | Micro Loan Nexus","description":"\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash | Micro Loan Nexus","og_description":"\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would","og_url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047","og_site_name":"Micro Loan Nexus","article_published_time":"2023-09-28T21:53:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-28T21:53:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":533,"url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/LYNXMPEB1A07Q_L.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"News Room","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"News Room","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047"},"author":{"name":"News Room","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e2d3b62d35ac325be68540d68dc6660a"},"headline":"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash","datePublished":"2023-09-28T21:53:21+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-28T21:53:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047"},"wordCount":387,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["Featured"],"articleSection":["Investing"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047","url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047","name":"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash | Micro Loan Nexus","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-09-28T21:53:21+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-28T21:53:22+00:00","description":"\u00a9 Reuters. Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) has announced adjustments to its SkyMiles program, responding to customer backlash over proposed changes that would","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=23047#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Delta Air Lines to adjust SkyMiles program following customer backlash"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/","name":"Solutions For Real","description":"Latest Finance News and Updates","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#organization","name":"Solutions For Real","url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png","width":690,"height":64,"caption":"Solutions For Real"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e2d3b62d35ac325be68540d68dc6660a","name":"News Room","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png","caption":"News Room"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/microloannexus.com"],"url":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23048,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047\/revisions\/23048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}