Taking advice from Delta and attempting to redeem my Skypesos for low level award travel to Europe during the off-season, discover that the lowest level award redemption for a 3-day period in early October from west coast and SLC to CDG is 125,000 miles for Economy and 325,000 for Business Elite.

This has to to be one of the slowest travel months of the year and still Delta refuses to make low level awards available to elite members. Why don't Delta just ease the pain and eliminate the low level 50,000 coach/100,000 Business Elite awards. Then its formerly loyal customers would not be disappointed when it rarely found them available.

As a contrast, availability from LAX-CDG at low levels is abundant.