July 1, 2025: Although Delta and American Express are currently offering increased welcome offers on all of the Delta SkyMiles credit cards, we found a better offer available when going through the booking process at Delta.com. Here are the details.
Delta.com better offer: Miles plus a statement credit on Delta.com
Here’s the offer we’re seeing pop up on Delta.com when you make a booking:
Earn a $500 statement credit after you make a Delta purchase on your new Card within your first 6 months. + Earn 50,000 Bonus Miles after spending $3,000 in purchases on your new Card within your first 6 months. Offer expires 7/16/25.
Delta Gold Card welcome offer on Delta.com
In our view, this offer is better than what is offered through affiliate networks and directly through the Amex website. Here’s how the offer compared to the current affiliate offers at the time:
Earn 80,000 Bonus Miles after you spend $3,000 in purchases on your new Card in your first 6 months of Card Membership. Offer ends 7/16/25.
Online and affiliate offer available as of 7/1/2025.
How to find the Delta.com offer
(Note: screenshots in this section are not updated every time the offer changes, and may reflect a non-current offer)
To find this offer, search for any flight at Delta.com. At some point during the booking process, you might see the SkyMiles Gold card advertised. Here’s an example of how this might look:
But don’t click on the offer at this point! It was only when we clicked through to checkout that we saw the best offer:
If you see the offer including the $500 statement credit at checkout, this is the one you want to click on. If you tick the box on the page labeled “Learn More & Apply Now” you’ll be taken to the application process before you check out at Delta.com.
Tips on getting the best offer
The statement credit + bonus miles offer available during booking at Delta.com isn’t consistent. Sometimes we’ve seen a lower statement credit offer. Here are the tips we’ve figured out to finding the best offer.
- Try searching between two cities where Delta isn’t the dominant carrier, but where it has a significant presence. Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, New York, and Washington, D.C. are good options.
- Be sure that the cost of your flight is at least $500. Anecdotally, we’ve seen that the amount of the statement credit is often lower if your flight prices out at a lower price.
Finally, realize that, while we were seeing this offer at our last update, it is always subject to change and may not even be available by the time you read this.
My take: This is the Delta Gold Card offer to get
If you’re planning on applying for the Delta SkyMiles® Gold American Express Card, this is hands-down the best offer to get, provided you can get it to show up on Delta.com.
During the most recent round of increased offers, getting the Delta.com offer meant trading 30,000 SkyMiles for a $500 statement credit. Given the value of Delta SkyMiles, that’s a trade I’d take all day long.
I know I mentioned it above, but be sure that you click all the way through to the end of the booking process. When I last checked, it looked like Delta and Amex show you a lesser offer earlier in the booking process. Don’t take the bait. Hold out for the better offer.
My normal frustration about channel-exclusive offers applies. I don’t like the practice of showing different offers through different channels…making consumers hunt down the best offer and incentivizing content creators to promote lesser offers through affiliate networks is a bad deal all-around.
