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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…

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

Greg The Frequent Miler - February 27, 2014 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...

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Delta’s 2015 Award Chart

Greg The Frequent Miler - March 5, 2014 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...

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Delta: guesses validated, and more predictions

Greg The Frequent Miler - March 7, 2014 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...

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

Greg The Frequent Miler - April 11, 2014 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...

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How bad is Delta’s domestic award availability?

Greg The Frequent Miler - April 14, 2014 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...

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Upgrading to Reserve [Expired], striving for Diamond

Greg The Frequent Miler - May 20, 2014 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...

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Buying low, flying high

Greg The Frequent Miler - May 21, 2014 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...

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A point hoarder’s approach to booking domestic flights

Greg The Frequent Miler - August 22, 2014 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...

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How to manufacture Delta elite status

Greg The Frequent Miler - October 15, 2014 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....

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Delta award stop-overs only partially broken

Greg The Frequent Miler - October 28, 2014 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...

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

Greg The Frequent Miler - November 14, 2014 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...

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HOT: Amazing award availability on partner airlines using Delta SkyMiles!

Greg The Frequent Miler - January 8, 2015 6

This won’t last long! The blog “don’t call the airline!” has found that when searching Delta.com for partner awards (e.g. Air France, Virgin Atlantic),...

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Are Delta’s upgrade certificates as good as they sound?

Greg The Frequent Miler - January 14, 2015 9

Late in 2013, I posted “Why Delta’s great new Choice Benefits irk me.” Delta had just announced that they would be introducing regional and...

Surviving (and thriving) Delta 2015

Greg The Frequent Miler - January 21, 2015 21

As of January 1, 2015, Delta has been awarding miles based on the ticket price rather than the distance flown. Under the new program,...

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