Originally Posted by
kilton
Hello,
Can someone give a current status on booking AF flights with DL miles? What is the recommended search site/tool? Is there still an issue with faux classic award space on AF's site?
Thanks!
ExpertFlyer is still the most reliable search tool. It's not "faux" classic space on the FlyingBlue engine, it's that AF is not making more award space available to their members than to partners. EF shows the inventory available to most partners. (AS gets more, apparently, because they're willing to pay AF more for the space as they collect more miles from their members now, matching the rates FB charges.)
Originally Posted by
edh101985
Can this be possible? Atlanta to Sydney as a stop over. Then fly from Sydney to Tokyo on Vietnam airways for the main destination. Then fly home from Tokyo back to Atl.
SYD would have to be your destination and NRT your stopover. It may price out at 150K in J (100K in Y), but the trick will be how DL attempts to validate SYD-SGN-NRT-ATL. It comes in under the 25M level of MPM, which might work, but the usual trick of VN having a fare routed that way doesn't appear to work. It may be easier (if outside blackout dates) to fly KE and take a stopover in ICN and just pay for SEL-TYO and back.