Originally Posted by
mtkeller
For redeeming miles, it's harder, especially since you can't pool the miles without paying transfer fees. Do you and each of your kids have 37,000 miles? If so, everyone would have enough miles (theoretically) for a round trip within the US. If you let us know where you'd be flying from and where you might like to go using your miles, we might be able to give more specific advice. (Award tickets to Europe will start at 60K round trip, so it would take a couple more trips for everyone to have enough miles to book such a trip.)
37k miles? Is that your way of saying that DL really has very few 25k low level awards for domestic flights?
But seriously, even the 60k coach Europe ticket, low level can be difficult to find if you plan far ahead. Also, if you originate out of Europe, you often pay a huge fuel surcharge per ticket, which can make a "free" trip quite expensive.
DL is not the best FF plan for a normal person. I rarely fly on American Airlines, but prefer their miles for award flights. I booked a RT in First Class this morning with AA and partner Cathay Pacific. Found low level flights, with no problem, plus I can change the dates since the return was more than 330 days out, for free.