Originally Posted by
StSebastian
I'm pretty sure you only have to ticket them, not travel as well. If it were Delta making these changes, you'd probably have to have completed the travel as well.
I posted in that other thread that it looks like you have to *ticket* the award by 15 Dec, including those already issued which have a later expiration date, not just issue the award certificate from the points. Any award not ticketed by 15 Dec will be reinstated as points, at which time you will only be allowed to convert to miles. Those that have been ticketed should be fine, but a cancellation of that flight will just lose all points/awards entirely.
That is how I interpreted the rule change as well. I also just learned that I have to spend $1500 in two months to be able to redeem. Seems meh, but doable.