Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
Sitting on that amount of miles, in any airline or points program is a bad idea. Doing it in DL's program, with a long and solid history of surprise devaluations, and middle fingers to their FF's is even worse.
Burn them, trade them, but don't let them just sit there.
Another vote in agreement. Delta has both the worst availability and the highest award costs in miles among the bigs, which is why they call 'em Skypesos. In addition to outright devaluations you've got the ongoing stealth one where they just don't allocate any low-tier awards. Long-term trends aren't hopeful. They're still in this cartel mindset of cut-your-way-to-prosperity, which ensures that most net additions to seat capacity will come from LCCs and ULCCs going forward. Spirit is brazenly adding seats on bread-and-butter routes like MSP-DEN or DTW/ATL-DFW that would have started an all-out war in the old days.