hfly -- Let me try once again to penetrate the dense fog of your profound ignorance. As I said in my original post, I searched "as far into the future as it let me search", which is 331 days, without a single day of low miles availability. Does that constitute "the busiest tourist season to Europe" in your expert opinion? By the way, this phenomenon was reported by others -- see http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ix-europe.html.

mtkeller -- Thanks for your very helpful information and instructions.