Originally Posted by
thepointsguy
It all depends. I usually find that within a week of departure, low level seats starts popping up.
For example, Delta opened up low level BusinessElite awards LAX-SYD for next Monday and Tuesday. They are arguably the hardest awards to get and who would have thought they'd be available the week of Thanksgiving? PS I hope a lucky FTer can snag them now (or change any existing high level awards to the lower level).
Air France opens up a couple days in advance. I just checked JFK-CDG and while no flights tomorrow are available, there are three business class seats on Tuesday (this day was zeroed out a week ago).
In any case, Delta miles are not as worthless as people make them out to be. You just need to know how to use them properly.
Wow. In your experience, what is the fewest number of days prior to departure, that a particular DL flight's seats (in either given class) have opened up for low level SM redemption, for the first time?
In other words, do some DL flights have no low level award seats released, until two days or less before departure? Could this be the secret of how best to use SkyMiles? Thanks.