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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…

How bad is Delta’s domestic award availability?

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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

Booking Delta awards when you love your spouse

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A few days ago, MileValue declared that Delta had the best award space to Asia that he's ever seen.  He showed that saver-level business...

5X everywhere Amex is accepted, until the New Year

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I'll be on vacation until January 6th.  Until then, I'll publish a series of "mini posts" with an occasional regular post if something interesting...

Valuing Delta’s Regional Upgrade Certificates

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Last week, in the post "Why Delta’s great new Choice Benefits irk me" I described Delta's new Upgrade Certificates that will be available only...

Why Delta’s great new Choice Benefits irk me

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Recently, Delta announced a few significant (and mostly positive) changes to their elite Medallion program.  For full coverage, please see these posts: Delta...

This, that, and the other thing

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As we head into the weekend, there are a number of things on my mind... Shopping portal holiday bonuses A number of shopping portals...

What I really think about Delta’s frequent flyer program

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Last week, feeling hurt that United was getting all of the negative attention for their devaluation, Delta jumped in and devalued their SkyMiles program...
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