Originally Posted by
chinatraderjmr
Business class fares always go on sale in every market. You can fly to any place on earth in C (Z) for under $5K (depending on season). But even with the rare F sales, you can't get to the mid east, Africa, india, etc for under $15K and that is where the best use of miles are dollar wise
But all of that is sort of moot unless you actually do fly paid C/F for your own personal travels.
I hear you on the joy of flying a true 3-cabin F product on one of the carriers that really takes F seriously. That's where I try to use most of my *A miles. But I think I'd accept an airline with a solid 2-cabin product if redemption wasn't so insanely tight like it is on DL. A good C seat on an award is fine with me...but I never expect to see one with my DL miles.
My limited success with DL has been within North America. Simple 25k-35k awards on routes that would otherwise be expensive...like $700 to EYW or $900 to BZE. I've resigned myself to the fact that DL can be a 2cpm program that saves me real hard costs. The aspirational stuff...int'l F seats I wouldn't have actually bought with cash...that's *A for me.