I'm thinking of booking an award ticket for next Christmas in February the second award flights are available. I've been checking my desired route just for fun, and the tickets have been popping up at the low mileage level. I've clicked on the award availability calendar, and I see a month of green. Amazing! I've high hopes for snagging the ticket come February. I checked availability again today, and it popped up at the high level. I then clicked on the award availability calendar, and it's all blue. For every date. ...!?!?!? I'm convinced delta.dumb is tracking my activity, and decided to up the price in miles because the computer figured out I'm interested.

The price (in miles) has gone from 70K to 130K to 155K in the last 24 hours. It just doesn't pass the smell test.