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Old Apr 11, 2019 | 6:36 am
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Originally Posted by jackvogt
Wow, Delta is probably the most profitable with their AMEX partnership and they don't have people constantly trying to sell them to passengers while you are on the plane.
There is the street market-like constant hawking of the cards in the ATL terminals that seems to have a decent number of people snared when I walk past though

I do think they’ve done a good job of driving up redemptions this year by adopting a retail store model of setting prices higher under normal circumstances and then offering short term sales whether published or unpublished. I know that when I do an award ticket search and get a result that’s cheaper than it would have been than under the award chart days, I find myself going ‘must book now’
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