OFFICAL from Delta: Award Stopovers & Open Jaw GONE #Skymiles2015
Nov 18, 2014, 10:11 am
#61
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Nov 18, 2014, 10:17 am
#62
Join Date: Mar 2010
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This is not speculation. Go and book a one way award from Budapest-New York JFK on January 23rd. The cost is 60,000 miles for low level economy (which will eventually be 30,000 miles come January 1st). However, the taxes are $257 USD ($144 USD of which is the fuel surcharge).
Nov 18, 2014, 10:18 am
#63
Join Date: Apr 2005
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What I really don't get is, if DL is routing me via X city, what's the big deal to DL if I stop there? I've had some nice stopovers I would not have considered (e.g. ICN) but that was the award routing DL had available.
Nov 18, 2014, 10:19 am
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Nov 18, 2014, 10:49 am
#65
Join Date: Nov 2014
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Even asking a Delta rep for a manual calculation of 3 saver awards isn't working for me.
I found:
IAD>NRT - 70k miles
NRT>LAX - 70k miles
LAX>DCA - 25k miles
Both delta.com and the delta rep using manual calculations came out to 95k instead of 70k, making my free stopover non-existent.
Bummed
I found:
IAD>NRT - 70k miles
NRT>LAX - 70k miles
LAX>DCA - 25k miles
Both delta.com and the delta rep using manual calculations came out to 95k instead of 70k, making my free stopover non-existent.
Bummed
Nov 18, 2014, 11:31 am
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I am truly ready to puke over this "enhancement" of the program. I can tell you with found and cherished memories the many times I have spent a few days Paris or Rome or Amsterdam or other places with this perk aka the stopover.
This, other than maybe REV based itself, is the single biggest destruction of Skymiles in 20 years. I am staggered. I have no words but will find some to post soon how upset I am over this!
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This, other than maybe REV based itself, is the single biggest destruction of Skymiles in 20 years. I am staggered. I have no words but will find some to post soon how upset I am over this!
KeepDescending Delta KeepDescending!
Nov 18, 2014, 11:52 am
#70
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Meechigan
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I tend to agree. When (OK, *if*) this happens the soft underbelly of skymiles, where value currently remains, goes poof. I'm talking int'l BE redemptions, which even using standard award mileage consistently price at 2cpm or better, sometimes 4+.
Nov 18, 2014, 12:15 pm
#73
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Or something like it. To me, it has never made sense to have mileage earning based on spend while redemption is based on a fixed chart. But DL seems to think the denigration of SM will go down better if they make the changes in pieces, with some quietly slipped into the rules rather than announced, instead of going all at once the way WN did. I'm sure there is a detailed menu of "enhancements" to come, Chinese water torture-style.
Nov 18, 2014, 1:02 pm
#75
Join Date: Feb 2012
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The best value for redemption has always been Intl BE and while I'm sure they intend to devalue it, asking 400k+ miles for a/any BE redemption is probably a bit too far even for DL.