CP@YOW

http://www.capitalone.ca/lp/delta-sk...card/index.php

Interesting to see another U.S. airline enter the Canadian credit card market (after TD/AA and MBNA/AS)

The usual $120 annual fee. 25,000 mile first purchase bonus. DL miles are nowhere near as valuable as Aeroplan miles, but 25,000 for $120 isn't a bad deal.

DaveTO

When you could redeem on SQ, it was mildly worth collecting. Now they really are Skypesos.

I'm happy with AE miles

Shareholder

DL has a fair sized presence here in Canada, though I think NW had an even larger one, so makes sense to offer a card up here.

Wally Bird

NW is Delta now and I don't think any routes ex-Canada have been cut.

Don't know how this competes with Aerogold though .

CZBB

You're right, it doesn't really compete; DL's fuel surcharge is nowhere near as high as AC's.

YWG-RO

There's a thread on the DL forum.

IMO, pretty poor CC given the devaluation of DL SkyMiles (WorldPerks miles).

I don't think Visa AP will worry.

Solomon2

Perfect, I'm 5,000 skymiles short for a flight to MSP in November. Instead of paying the $158 for the extra 5,000 miles I'll pay $120 for 5x that!

jordanD

I've been screwed by Delta way to many times that I would rather take the bus than give them any of my business. That having been said, I guess this card is OK if you collect skymiles (why?). AP is a better program imho. Oh well. To each his own.

WillTravel

Looking way into the future, I see that I can get a roundtrip ticket within North America (ex-YVR) for 25000 miles plus a small amount of taxes (around $40-50). That being the case, this card would likely be worth it, because you'd be getting a roundtrip ticket for less than $200.

superdawg

AFAIK they have just recently dropped the Thunder Bay-Minneapolis route

margarita girl

I hate Delta's frequent flier program. In Feb, I tried to book 2 tickets YYZ-JFK for the following Dec (any date), and almost everything was 50K miles. The 6 a.m. flights were 40K miles. So there is no way I would pay $120 for this card. Mind you, if they waived the fee for the first year, I'd be all over this.

Altaflyer

Not a chance that I'd sign up for this card! If you want to attempt to redeem on DL just get the Alaska card, they too have a 25,000 bonus and DL is a partner and the annual fee is lower. I tried to use AS miles on DL and there was no availability at the lowest rate for months - not a single flight!! Something like that could eventually lead to allegations of fraud.

rankourabu

please, AC only charges fuel surcharges on AC metal.
DL has stupid foreign origin fee, good luck trying to book an intra-asia award with SkyPesos.

Having said that, $120 for 25000 miles is an ok deal. 2 miles for $1 is not bad either, considering the devaluation its really like getting 1:1.

harlam

Not a competitor to people like myself - the card isn't available to QC residents.

khkchan

Delta miles are like jokes. I once put an award hold on a flight from NRT-HKG for 30000 miles, the website lets me hold it for 7 days so that I can get enough miles to redeem. After couple hours, the reservation was cancelled without any reason - a call to CS says it is cancelled without knowing who did that.

I tried to reserve the same itin again couple hours later, now it requires 40000 miles.

Then I made couple calls to CS. They say mileage are subjected to change before ticketing (!) - why they let me put a hold for 7 days for miles to be transferred in the first place. So if you put a hold for some tickets, then bought the number of miles required, you are running a chance that even after you bought the miles, you will still not be able to ticket the itin and you will look like dumb buying the miles in the first place.

I finally reached a CS who "temporarily" let me reserve the 30000 award bucket and I have the itin ticketed for 30000 miles. He is saying it is a one time exception blah blah blah.

Few weeks after, the same itin costs 20000 miles.

I am done with Delta miles - thanks God.