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Old Jun 25, 2013, 8:59 am
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highlanderfil
 
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Originally Posted by tanktronic
Your only longshot option is to call Delta and see if that flight has availability to upgrade using miles... I checked Thursday DL248 and you might be in luck, it shows 3 seats available for certificate upgrades. If they say yes, you can buy 15,000 or so miles from Delta [$200 maybe?] and then upgrade on the flight over.
Thanks for the tip! Ironically, I just dropped a call with them - didn't want to be on hold for an hour. Should have waited. Guess I'll call them back.
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