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Resurfacing after little ones kept me occupied the last many years. Getting the hang of synching work vacation with school breaks. Wished I travelled more off-season when I was single! I'm here on FT to learn about credit cards and frequent flier programs with a community. With a Delta hub in CVG, most of my past travel has been through them, but I understand booking awards travel through Delta is challenging. With the new time and energy, I want to figure out how to maximize spending and travel award opportunities.
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<10,000. For personal, 1-2 trips/year in Economy. For work, 1-2 work trips/year (US, Europe) in Economy. Same for husband.
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For personal travel, we typically find an inexpensive fare 6-9 months out and build a vacation around it. For work, Delta is the go-to given options out of home airport.
With very few flights in economy you are not going to get anything worthwhile in any ffp (from flying).
If your 600,000 DL miles have come from frequent spending keep doing the same. Or with another credit card ----> airline ffp.
1000's of people look for (multiple) awards to popular places in holiday times/school breaks.
Be mindful of expiry
Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki.
Too late now, but there are simple lost cost ways to keep ffp's miles alive in most USA ffp's.
DL is unique in having no expiry (but that may change in the future).
With the change of most USA based ffp's to revenue based for flights on own airline, flying the airline with best fares and best schedule that matches your requirements now has merit. And then treating any ff miles as a bonus, which may or may not, be able to be used.