Originally Posted by
akcae
If this works, that's how I'll have to book my US - BEG vacation. I can see low on various TATL routes, most notably on VA via LHR, but searching for my actual itin ONLY sends me via DTW-FCO DL flight an lowest price I get is 105K in J.
That is just what I've been seeing. If DL flies on a route direct, that the newly downgraded dumbed down reservations system will no longer display, in any type of search, alternate available (and lower price) routing over other SkyTeam or partner airlines, such as VA via LHR in your case here. It remains to be seen is award routing now severely restricted, with a heavy bias for DL "most direct routing" flights, or is it just that the online award search was made even more useless than before and that other valid SkyTeam+partner routings, which price out as less, are still available by phone.