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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 12:19 pm
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Still not 100K for an award, though.

And yeah, DL saver inventory sucks (as you can see on the DL board), plus their award calendar is routinely referred to as "delta.dumb".

The only way you can pay 100K for an AS domestic F award is on a straight AS itinerary, at peak times, which IMO is a complete ripoff, given that you can get TATL J for that and AS F just simply isn't that good of a product- but given that AS gives so much of their F away on cheap Y fares, why should you expect it to be very good? AS also has the "advantage" of being in a secondary transcon market where keeping up with the Jones's isn't very hard, since AA/DL/UA/CO premium F products don't show up in SEA very often, and the superior transcon F products require connections in SFO or LAX.
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