Originally Posted by
lucke27
I thought if Virgin Australia's web site showed available Business Reward seats to purchase with points, Delta could book those business class seats with Skymiles (even if a Delta Award seat search did not show them as not available).
It's a little more nuanced than that. Among other qualifiers the partner carrier award inventory needs to be from an inventory bucket that is made available to Delta. There may be some awards for Virgin Velocity points not available with SkyMiles.
Delta.com can construct USA-AUS-NZ award routings.
