Originally Posted by
humanoid94
Question back to you one
Are you on a paper ticket?
-Point two, that routing is terrible, although lots of miles. Is that the best that Delta could pull or did you have to get creative with your TA?
1. I doubt that you will be able to BUMP over to NW at SEA coming from an international flight. You are, however, technically on a full fare (although discounted ticket). What I would probably try to do is go to NW's counters at ICN and see if they will take your ticket and allow you to fly ICN-NRT-DTW-Stopover-SAT. Heck it might work!
As an aside, the first question I ask either of my two somewhat incompetent government issued travel agents is whether NW matched a fare. You can fly on the matched fare after making a pretty simple business case. My personal favorite one is, "Connecting through ORD significantly increases the risk of misconnect"
3. Sure, if somehow this got pulled off you would be eligible for domestic upgrades.
4. Looking bad SAT-MSP, only 7 F seats total left for sale before the Plats are run. Fighting chance MSP-SFO.
5. Fighting Chance, Ouch, Fighting Chance.
Hope this helps somewhat.
One.
I am on an E-ticket. I tried for paper, but they wouldn't do that.
Two.
I had to get very creative. I had to flirt with my best Korean for a while. Fortunately, Koreans are very impressed when Americans know even a little bit of Korean. Next, I had to say with a very serious face, "I'm sorry. I don't fly American or United. I will fly Korean, Delta, Northwest, or Continental." Then she offered ICN-SEA-ATL-SAT, and I asked to fly through DTW on NW. She said that I had to stay on DL, but that she would be happy to give me a night in DTW to see my brothers.
1.
Interesting thought. I will try that if I get there before the NW flight leaves. I just called the GE line, and the lady said that it is a DL revenue ticket and she cannot touch it. So, probably won't work. But, if it stays a "Y" ticket, like it is, then it is even upgradeable across the ocean.
3-5.
Thank you.
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