Originally Posted by 5khours

I don't really have an opinion on and have never thought about whether I know more than others. But if someone believes DL provides good value on their SM program and is able to use it to fly at reasonable prices in business class on international, I would be very interested in hearing the details and would probably fly a lot more DL. I used to fly NW on business class and with a combination of J fares and upgrades on discount economy fares, I averaged about $1700 for an RT TPAC. On UA, last year I bought only discount economy, averaged $1200 per RT and got upgraded 95% of the time (19/20) on the TPAC segments. If I could do that on DL or even get close to the $1700 average I used to pay on NW, I'd be flying mostly DL. I usually book about 2 weeks out. I'm not trying to prove a point, but there are a lot of posters claiming the DL SM program is fine. If that's the case, someone has bad information. If it's me who is misinformed, I'd like to know the specifics so I can take advantage of it and make better use of DL for my travel. I think that's the whole point of the forum.....to share useful information.