Originally Posted by
smunf
I did this same exercise back in early December and currently have a 257 dollar eCredit for delta that expires dec 2023. If I do this again in January and get another ecredit, can those two eCredits be used on the same flight? are they stackable?
Yes, although if you mix eCredits with different expiration, the resulting ticket apparently gets the earlier expiration date:
Commingling of eCredits (new eCredits created after 1/1/23)
If you don't care about that and were going to use them anyway, you can use your existing $257 credit and use it to book a more expensive ticket (up to $507) and the difference in fare will get reimbursed from 2023's credit meter.
Originally Posted by
brosnan6
I did the gift card "trick" last year and it worked fine, but was talking to a friend about it and he said the way he does it doesn't involve a GC purchase as he simply books an international award ticket with heavy taxes and fees (UK tickets, for example) and then cancels the award ticket and retains the taxes and fees as a credit rather than CC refund. Why does everybody not do it this way instead of having to "invest" in the $50 GC first? Is there something I'm missing here?
No idea. I am speculating but I think a lot of people learn about one method and are forever fixated on that method going forward, and don't seem to read other posts in the thread or wiki that describe newer/different/potentially better workarounds. IMO the simplest technique, if you have a flight you intend to take, is to book a cheaper flight first, and then change it to the one you actually want, as described in the post above yours.