Originally Posted by
susiesan
I am planning to make a vacation trip to South Africa in 2015, between Sept.-Nov. I will need 2 seats in J as awards. I have figured out how many miles I need using AA or UA and ideal routes. Now I am looking at what it would take to use skymiles. I have 450K+ Starwood AX points that I can transfer into to DL. I'm wanting to know how easy it is to get these award seats in J for the current cost of 160K skymiles each, or if it's impossible to do.
If there are never award seats on the DL flights then perhaps there are on partners.
Best bet flying out of MCI would be a one stop in ATL and then to JNB....we flew to JNB via ATL in Feb. I booked in Business using at that time 150K....they intially had me on AF via CDG and return direct to ATL....because of a travel advisory back in Feb we got rebooked on the outbound direct to JNB from ATL.
I recall there were a lot more availiabilty on AF and KLM for the lower mileage amount. I would do everything possible to get on the direct from ATL.