Originally Posted by
CrownRoyalForever
I'm an FO that flys DL when they're cheapest and even have a U.S. DL Plat Amex but I completely quit spending any CC $$ to acquire Skymiles when they yanked their award chart. They have their uses as you've outlined, and I tend to find decent saver availability to and from Canada, but they are not to be trusted. No way would I save up to 160k for an Australia award for fear of having the rug yanked out from under me.
Cheers
Even if they devalued all their points to 1cpm (it can't go below that with cash + miles redemptions), it would still be ahead of most credit cards. That's still effectively 2% cash back.