Originally Posted by
shoodawg
for Y?
Yes. DL harmonized DL and partner metal awards from US/Canada last year (as has been covered in other threads). Cheapest Skymiles awards now require roundtrip bookings with minimum stay and have advance purchase requirements on both Delta and partner metal (this had been true of DL metal awards for some time, but now also applies to partner metal awards). If you are booking last minute flights and one-ways awards, they will be many, many more miles (mirroring last minute, one-way revenue fares which start at $1652 on this route with a less than 14 day advance purchase). Cheapest DL economy awards on SFO-AMS are seasonal and 33K miles each way and require a roundtrip booking with 7 day minimum stay and 28 day advance purchase and Mon-Thu travel. These 66K roundtrip awards largely mirror $793 roundtrip main cabin V fares on route with similar fare rule requirements.
Fare rules for $793 roundtrip VLX87SM2 V fares
