fbpx
back to top

Tag: Delta

Delta SkyMiles Overview

While Delta is often lauded for their flight performance and customer service, their loyalty program has long been the butt of jokes in the frequent flier community. Delta often charges far more miles for saver-level award flights than its direct competitors like AA or United.  Delta’s elite program used to trail the pack as well.

Read more about Delta SkyMiles in our Complete Guide here…

Here are some of the topics our guide covers:

You can also read our many posts about Delta below…

Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Delta

Bet You Didn’t Know: Tricks to using Virgin Atlantic miles to fly Delta

29
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...  It's fascinating to me that so many airlines have decided it's fair to promote a "free" ticket loyalty program and then...
a map of europe with red lines

Delta award stop-overs only partially broken

7
Delta has long allowed both a stop-over and an open-jaw on round trip awards.  This meant that it was possible to stop in multiple...
a man and woman on an airplane

How to manufacture Delta elite status

79
Please see an updated version of this post, here: How to manufacture Delta elite status. Most airlines offer extra benefits to their most valuable customers....

A point hoarder’s approach to booking domestic flights

20
In the post “Opportunistic hoarding vs. earning and burning,” I described my approach to earning points, miles, and cash back.  I earn opportunistically based...

Buying low, flying high

14
In recent years, Delta has improved their flying experience quite a bit.  They’ve upgraded to newer and bigger planes, they’ve improved their on time...

Upgrading to Reserve [Expired], striving for Diamond

20
Last Friday, I upgraded one of my wife’s two Delta cards to a $450 Delta Reserve card.  Am I insane?  Probably, but that’s besides...

How bad is Delta’s domestic award availability?

24
“Delta award availability sucks”.  If you spend much time in the frequent flyer community, you’re bound to hear that, or something very similar.  For...

Airline devaluations, convoluted awards, #milemadness, Serve on-again, and Staples gift cards

19
AA and US Airways begin their merger devaluations The following bullet points are borrowed from One Mile at a Time: American has eliminated distance based oneworld...

Delta: guesses validated, and more predictions

10
Delta’s 2015 award chart for travel from the Continental US, Alaska, and Canada was released today.  You can find the new chart here.  The...

Delta’s 2015 Award Chart

8
UPDATE 3/6/2014: Delta’s new award chart has been released.  It is almost exactly as I predicted below except that some mid and high tier...

Delta’s tricky little s and what it may mean about award space

24
In yesterday’s post about Delta’s planned 2015 changes, I quoted one of Delta’s promises (bolding is mine): There will be more Award Seats...

Am I the only one happy about Delta’s announced program changes?

65
Wednesday morning, Delta announced major changes to their SkyMiles program that will take effect January 1, 2015.  Most blogs declared that the sky(miles) is...

Luxury travel via Penny Points

34
On Tuesday evening, my family of three flew Delta business class from Detroit to Los Angeles on an internationally configured aircraft with flat bed...

Catching up

8
Lots of miscellaneous things going on... Delta award bookings Last week I reported a way to book multiple saver level awards when Delta shows...

Follow & Share

14,111FansLike
13,000FollowersFollow
62,216FollowersFollow
9,190SubscribersSubscribe