Originally Posted by mia
An award flight to Europe would require 50,000 Skymiles. Note that these are the amounts required for "SkySaver" awards which are limited availability, a "SkyChoice" award doubles the mileage requirement... I wouldn't feel married to Delta just because I discovered a cache of miles.
Let me echo Dennis' point. I search fror DL awards regularly and rarely find domestic seats for the dates/routes I want at the 25,000 mile level; most often they want 50,000 miles per seat domestically per the terms of SkyChoice. A SkyChoice economy seat to Europe is
100,000 miles. Five of them... well, do the math.
Don't spread your efforts among multiple programs. Judging from testimony on this board, AA and UA definitely offer better award availability than DL, NW and especially CO. If you can scrape together enough miles for one or two Europe tickets on AA or UA in time to snap them up for summer 2007, I'd say go for that.