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Apr 13, 2009, 9:43 am

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Originally Posted by bhigbee

There are obviously some 'tricks of the trade' to get award travel. I am new to SkyMiles as I have recently transfered my WorldPerks miles. When I try to view availability for award travel, all I see are no flights available. Then I read that there are ways to book even the last seat on the plane with Delta. How do you make that feature work? I checked on the NWA site and see seats available but when the same dates are entered for Delta it show no flights available. Any hints of what I'm doing wrong?

thanks

The total absence of award seats suggests completely sold out flights or a dysfunctional award calendar. I'll go with the latter. Use a phone to book awards through a DL call center, or transfer miles to a WP account and use the better (for NW and CO metal, anyway) NW online award search.