Comments on: What are Delta miles worth?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:28:22 +0000

I have accumulated a bunch of Delta miles and would like to use them for international business class. I took your advice and spent some time searching the Delta website and have discovered that there are a VERY limited number of partner flights that show up. Is it possible utilize a partner airline website and use Delta miles to pay for the flight on the partner website?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 23:57:06 +0000

Ah darn it. I just got a delta card and paid $95 to buy 70k miles after spending $2000. Now it’s free to get 60k miles for spending $2k.

Delta Pesos. Great

By: delmed

delmed — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:50:26 +0000

In reply to Harlan Vaughn. the last two flights i took i paid for part of my flight with miles. i'm sad to report that delta no longer counts amex "pay with miles" as cash sales and you only earn on the cash portion of your ticket.

By: Marti

Marti — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 13:21:56 +0000

If I have a platinum Delta Amex for many years, can I apply for a gold Amex card with the current mileage incentive

By: wanderlustblog18

wanderlustblog18 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:45:21 +0000

Actually, this is an excellent guide with a”big picture.”
An extremely useful aspect is that Delta is a transfer partner usually “instant” with AMEX MR. If you can get past the charges AMEX tacks on.
Delta has actually helped me lately get to places none of the other “legacy” airlines could reasonably with routing suggestion I wold have not found on my own.
I am a multimillion miler with AA, but have moved them to the bottom of my list. The suggestions AA makes on their website get worse every week, and they are notorious for calling a routing “business” when the bulk of the mileage flown is on economy seats.
Haters will hate.

By: JoeB

JoeB — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:52:06 +0000

Complete and utter nonsense. Cherry picking the extremely limited number of deals and extrapolating to say points are worth btw 1-2cpp is ridiculous, especially when Delta is rarely the cheapest option. Quoting SFO-LAX and using $111 one-way is absurd. Can regularly find flights for $49 on Southwest.

I’ve seen one-way international biz tickets price out at over 400K Skypesos, double any other US carrier award costs.

It’s friggin obscene to see credit shills putting out blatant bs about Skypesos.

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:56:25 +0000

In reply to Harlan Vaughn. Thanks Harlan! Now I understand. I agree with you. Delta will most likely only allow me to get out of the airport and do some sightseeings if the stopover is enroute. But this is not the case with Alaska or Cathy, ANA and Japan Airlines right? With those airlines I can freely add a longer than 24 hours stop over if my reward booking meets their requirements, correct? Yes, an in-depth tutorial on this is greatly appreciated!

By: Harlan Vaughn

Harlan Vaughn — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:39:02 +0000

In reply to Eve.

Yes, it should work exactly how you described.

The only thing with Delta miles is finding that itinerary as open low-level award space. I would think of it as a bonus stop in whatever city Delta wants me to connect in rather than trying to pick for myself, which would require some futzing around with Delta’s booking engine. Even then, it’s glitchy at best and would depend heavily on the routing and which partner you fly.

And that’s a good idea! We have a guide on how to do it with United. Maybe we could add others down the line.

Thanks for the feedback, Eve! 🙂

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:33:33 +0000

In reply to Harlan Vaughn. Hi Harlan, Thanks for your quick response. So does that mean that I can add any city for free, like what I do with Alaska airlines, as long as the stop over is made within 24 hours into my international itinerary? For instance, I am flying from Orlando to Shanghai and I can add Beijing for free? I am sorry I am still kind of confused. Maybe you guys should do a tutorial on how to add free stop overs on different airlines. Thanks, Eve

By: Harlan Vaughn

Harlan Vaughn — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:24:33 +0000

In reply to Eve. Yes, you're correct! Actually, I've got my eye on an Alaska award with a stopover in Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific. Not nearly enough folks use stopovers and it's definitely a missed opportunity if you can add them freely. We will see what we can do about a future guide. Appreciate the time talking with you and here if there's anything we can help you with!