Oh well I was hoping for something brilliant? LOL. But I guess same old story, if you want to use useless Sky Pesos at a fair rate you have to hope a partner will take you and of course that usually means ridiculous layovers etc.

I know its an old tune but it took me exactly 5 minutes to find many choices on CO/UA for 125,000 miles each. Even if I find something with DL partners it will be at least 140,000 miles and the flights will suck where as the CO/UA flights were normal connections.

DL finally made up my mind for me. I will find a way to use my 700,000 miles and then DL has lost a Platinum customer for good.

I will give my business to an airline that rewards it's customers with capacity for miles.

And before the usual defenders jump in here with well up grades are so great for Domestic flights, I have exactly the same success this year with upgrades on UA/CO as I do with DL.

At some point management will have to realize that miles for tickets earned with hard spent money have to be available and not limited to RT in BE at 325,000 miles and up.

On top of that they will have to realize it is time to provide a search engine that does the job it is supposed to instead of receiving the name DUMB from all its customers.