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Old Aug 3, 2015, 1:17 pm
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Originally Posted by yohanson
In this day and age Delta is handing out far fewer Skypesos. You would think the redemption levels would drop, not increase. Delta hates its frequent fliers.
Delta is handing out about the same number of SkyPesos, just distributed differently.

The people who gain are the ones who (typically) care the least: those flying very expensive tickets OPM. They probably see SkyPesos as free, so they're happy spending 500,000 SP to buy a companion ticket.
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