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Old Jul 30, 2013 | 3:39 pm
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Originally Posted by DFWsakp
Best use of Delta miles is for domestic tickets with stop over. Last year I was able to get 6 tickets for 150K miles on a multi stop itiernary which was costing me 500$ per ticket. If I would have used them to fly to international then I doubt if I would have got anything more than coach to fly to Europe. International awards on DL at the low level are almost non existent (at least as a non elite I have never found any). The best program in my opinion is UA.
^ on this. Keep in mind that the stopover needs to be at a valid connecting city, which usually means a Delta hub such as ATL.
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