Delta to Europe?
Sep 26, 2011, 1:03 pm
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Delta to Europe?
Can this be true? Viz. that on Delta it's the same number of miles to fly roundtrip to Europe as to fly one-way?? Every other airline I've looked at it's half the miles for one-way, i.e. one can fly back on another airline or whatever. I have miles on Delta and don't seem to be able to use them ever. What am I not "getting"? Or is Delta skymiles program simply much more restricted than other airlines.
Thanks.
Btw, does anyone have an opinion on which airline would be best for business class Phila-Venice and back from Nice?
Thanks.
Btw, does anyone have an opinion on which airline would be best for business class Phila-Venice and back from Nice?
Sep 26, 2011, 1:04 pm
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Can this be true? Viz. that on Delta it's the same number of miles to fly roundtrip to Europe as to fly one-way?? Every other airline I've looked at it's half the miles for one-way, i.e. one can fly back on another airline or whatever. I have miles on Delta and don't seem to be able to use them ever. What am I not "getting"? Or is Delta skymiles program simply much more restricted than other airlines.
Thanks.
Btw, does anyone have an opinion on which airline would be best for business class Phila-Venice and back from Nice?
Thanks.
Btw, does anyone have an opinion on which airline would be best for business class Phila-Venice and back from Nice?
Sep 26, 2011, 1:10 pm
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Sep 26, 2011, 1:32 pm
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If you have enough miles for a roundtrip you can use it for the a trip that is PHL-VCE and NCE-PHL as Delta does allow open jaw ticketing. You need to book using multi-city awards. It's best to look for the one-ways separately to find seats at low redemption value and then book it together in multi-city; search by schedule and choose the flights you found when searching one-way awards. If you choose the same flights it should remain at low redemption.
Here is a good link to a description of maximizing your value from skymiles using the open-jaw and stopovers that Delta allows.
Here is a good link to a description of maximizing your value from skymiles using the open-jaw and stopovers that Delta allows.
Sep 26, 2011, 2:32 pm
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Many thanks to all who've responded. Alas, we don't have miles on any one airline for roundtrip. But we've got more than enough on several airlines for a one-way. I'll try to find something from UA or AA. (Would one or the other be better, I wonder?)
Sep 26, 2011, 4:44 pm
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If I recall correctly, AA has some off-peak USA-Europe one-ways for 20K miles. If the date range works and you can find award availability (and can avoid connecting to BA in London, and their fuel surcharges) it's a good deal.