Originally Posted by
newfie
We are in the early stages of planning a flight to Melbourne via Sydney and would like to know which airlines would have the best chance using skymiles, going next year, Oct/Nov travel 2014, we are very flexable as to how to get there, would appreciate knowing which airline to consider, flying in Business Class.
Assuming you really mean Delta partners, Virgin Australia is easily the best bet, with typically very good award availability and certainly the most direct routing. (They're not a member of SkyTeam but have a joint venture with Delta; in most but not quite all respects, Delta and VA treat each others' passengers better than Delta and many SkyTeam partners get along.)
See this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ess-class.html (though the OP is fairly out of date, as VA award flights can be redeemed through delta.com, IIRC).