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Delta is running a flash sale from tons of US cities to Tokyo, with economy class, premium select, and Delta One award flights all on sale. The best prices are in July and August, when mid-week flights are just 60,000 SkyMiles round trip in economy class from the majority of US cities served by Delta. I haven’t searched all routes, but Thrifty Traveler Premium reported 83 US airports with flights pricing at 60K round trip, so check your local airport. A handful of other airports are showing prices in the low 60K’s. Premium select and Delta One availability varies, but is still pretty wide open.
The Deal
- Delta has a SkyMiles flash sale with round trip awards to Tokyo from 60K round trip — and that price is available from most US airports served by Delta
- Link to Delta.com to search (choose flexible dates and you can see 5 weeks of availability at a time)
Quick Thoughts
These are some solid deals, especially considering how widely available they are from smaller airports. For example, my “home” airport of Albany, NY prices out at 60K SkyMiles round trip to Tokyo in the middle of the summer.
Premium Select comes in at 90K, though you’ll want to be sure you choose an itinerary that connects to an A350 for the full experience.
Delta One is also available for 140K round trip. Again, this includes both major markets and smaller markets. For example, here is Little Rock to Tokyo, including itineraries connecting to A350 Delta One suites:
This sale is notable for its breadth and inclusion of many, many cities that might otherwise normally require a positioning flight to connect to a saver award gateway.
Again, Thrifty Traveler Premium reported 83 US Airports with low end pricing on this one, so there is a good chance you can snag a deal.
As always, it is worth comparing to your other options, but if you’re interested in visiting Tokyo and you have SkyMiles to burn, this might be a good opportunity.
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I might jump on this one. Quick question. I saw that you called out targeting an A350 if you spend the 90K miles for Premium Select. I am a few hours from Detroit so I think that could work. What is the benefit versus another style of plane? Thanks.
I see nada at 140k (well 145k for coach), and what’s with the links to a pay site?
Where are you searching from? Are you searching round trip or one way?
I’ve been linking to Thrifty Traveler Premium for a long time now when I first see a deal via their email alerts. I’ve had a subscription for probably a year and a half or so and have linked to them many times when they are the first place I see a deal.
Atl, tpa, lit, bos. Best I see is 170k biz
Did you see my reply above? I see 140K RT Biz on many dates in August out of Boston. The pic in the post was LIT.
I just now (at 2:39pm ET) looked up ATL-TYO. Looking at flexible date search at 5 weeks of availability for a 14-day trip, I see 140K RT originating in Atlanta on all of these days in August:
Aug 6
Aug 14
Aug 15
Aug 21
Aug 27
Aug 28
I see these dates available for departures from Tampa (again, for a 14-day trip):
Aug 6
Aug 13
Aug 14
Aug 28
I’m not sure why you aren’t seeing them.
Hmm…
Nutthing like VIP treatment HaHa .
CHEERs
Thanks, Nick! Booked 3 r/t ATL-TYO in biz for 140k each for July. Not sure, but maybe I got better results NOT logged in (I am DM), or maybe just user error on my part.
Glad it worked out for you. Enjoy your trip!
Ok. I found some Boston dates after posting this. I had a limited time frame to travel and didn’t look extensively. I thought the promotion was less limited than it is
What has the world come to when we call 140k roundtrip in business a ‘flash sale’?
Thanks be to Delta for the variable pricing that turns this into a flash sale.
And also when the post doesn’t even list the airports???
I listed a couple of examples. It’s available from almost every airport, so it’s easy to search your own (I intentionally included two small airports in the post to make it as clear as possible that this is available from airports that don’t ordinarily have the best Delta pricing). I’m not going to copy and paste the entire list from a subscription-based email alert (to be clear, Thrifty Traveler has never asked me not to include the entire contents of their alerts, nor do we have any sort of affiliate relationship with them, it’s just a personal choice).
No luck with bos-nrt, originating in either city.
Are you searching round trip? I see 60K RT in econ and 140K RT in Delta One from BOS-Tokyo for 14-day trips starting in BOS on all of these dates:
Aug 6
Aug 13
Aug 14
Aug 15
Aug 21
Aug 22
Aug 27
Aug 28
And that’s just one month and for 14-day trips. Use the flexible date search.
Agree the term “sale” is inappropriate as DL does not use published award charts. Rather this is “DL award tix are temporarily reduced to normal prices charged by competitors” – but that doesn’t sound as good does it?