Originally Posted by
LouisianaTraveler
We were looking at the trip last year, and all the dates we looked at had LAX-SYD, round trip @ 350,000-400,000 miles. Our trip did not work out last year, for other reasons, so we are trying for this Oct.-Nov. We see 350,000 miles for N/S LAX-SYD RT through June, but then it creeps up each month - getting to 700,000-750,000 each for Oct.-Dec. I called the Medallion desk today, and they were no help in trying to explain.
I am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and if more seats will open as the travel date gets closer. Odd thing: I looked at the seats for our dates, and NO seats are booked in Business, so it is not an availability issue.
If you're willing to spend 300-400K roundtrip, you can probably still find it, though you might have to be a bit flexible in your dates. Have you used the flexible dates search feature on Delta.com?
Other than that, 750K roundtrip is about as expensive as it gets (for now, at least -- never know when it might go up again), so at least there's no harm in waiting to see if it goes down.