Originally Posted by
florin
SM int's awards are often VERY difficult. Recently I searched for a month and a half and finally gave up. I agree with the others who say that connector flights are very important. The key is to find availability in individual flights and then piece it together yourself.
I managed to find the OP a decent set of outbound flights, but I never quite realized how complete crap Delta was for awards :-/. Their entire three-tier system greatly weakens all of SkyTeam ...