Originally Posted by
RealHJ
Log into your skybonus.delta.com account and click on any int'l business class cert (e.g. trans-Atlantic 'delta one').
What I quoted here is for int'l (trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, Africa, S. America, etc.) bus. class certs. All of them.
I was also seeing T as a coach class. But, these are J-class certs, and also the fare mapping I did just matched up to domestic 'first' and discount Y, but nothing to int'l business. That is why I was wondering, is T being changed to be int'l business deep discount/award/SB class or what.
Currently it reads (for trans-Atlantic, to use that example):
But on top of that it says:
Other region int'l business SB certs have different language, but same classes currently, and all the same note in red at top of new classes being (only?) P and T.
It is unclear is it P and T classes ONLY in replacement of all the current ones (G, Z, Q, and I, H, and J for AF certain routes), or only for some. Very unclearly worded by DL. That is why I posted here, to try to get some clarity on this, on is this making things better or worse for SB cert redemption as of July 15th for traveling in 2017 and onwards, is T class being changed to be int'l business SB/award class, or what.
Yeah, I dug around after my first reply and saw all the same stuff you detailed.
Completely agree that it seems weird they are using domestic FC and coach booking codes to specify intl business class awards.
For now, I'm chalking it up to misguided web coding by DL IT, and optimistically thinking that they are expanding SB certs to allow use on P/D fares in first/business. (Granted, this is wishful thinking and based on no actual evidence beyond what you've described and I've see on the SB website.)
If they were in fact changing their revenue fare buckets, I feel like this would be a much bigger deal that someone would have noticed by now, especially since industry notices would need to go out to travel agents, GDS providers, etc.