The Definitive "How To Search for Low Tier Business Awards"
Jul 20, 2012, 5:17 pm
#1171
Join Date: Jan 2011
Programs: DL Plat, HH Diamond, Avis First
Posts: 17
AF Glitch
I called Delta and they cannot book any AF flights. I logged on to airfrance.us and tried to find the flights myself and it states their flight award search is down and will be back soon. Looks like AF is holding up the process for Delta.
Not great for me, I had a great flight to Europe and back with one short segment on AF. Now, unless AF fixes it, I will lose my reservation hold and be stuck with a search at flights twice the miles.
Not great for me, I had a great flight to Europe and back with one short segment on AF. Now, unless AF fixes it, I will lose my reservation hold and be stuck with a search at flights twice the miles.
Jul 21, 2012, 3:10 am
#1173
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. / Washington, DC
Programs: AA PPro/DL PLT, PPass, Marriott / Hilton Gold, JetBlue Mosaic, Hertz Presidents Circle, Amex Plat
Posts: 4,631
I called Delta and they cannot book any AF flights. I logged on to airfrance.us and tried to find the flights myself and it states their flight award search is down and will be back soon. Looks like AF is holding up the process for Delta.
Not great for me, I had a great flight to Europe and back with one short segment on AF. Now, unless AF fixes it, I will lose my reservation hold and be stuck with a search at flights twice the miles.
Not great for me, I had a great flight to Europe and back with one short segment on AF. Now, unless AF fixes it, I will lose my reservation hold and be stuck with a search at flights twice the miles.
Jul 21, 2012, 8:49 am
#1174
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne, Florida, USA
Posts: 2,983
Delta 132
ATL 12:30 pm Tue, Apr 16
JFK 2:56 pm Tue, Apr 16
Coach
Delta 160
JFK 5:00 pm Tue, Apr 16
MXP 7:30 am Wed, Apr 17
Business
Delta 75
MXP 9:50 am Fri, May 3
ATL 2:30 pm Fri, May 3
Business
There is also the option to take the 7:45 am flight out of ATL for an increased connection time in JFK.
HTH
Jul 21, 2012, 10:48 am
#1176
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2001
Programs: DL 1 million, AA 1 mil, HH lapsed Diamond, Marriott Plat
Posts: 28,190
No, but Alaska Mileage Plan can show some award routings with stopovers that wouldn't be permitted under Delta award rules. Using AS to search for DL-metal (or AA-metal) awards also means searching date by date: flexible date search is for AS-metal only.
Jul 21, 2012, 12:48 pm
#1177
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Bay Area
Programs: DL SM, UA MP.
Posts: 12,729
OK, so I'm trying to put together this routing:
5/25/13 SFO to VRN
6/9/13 TRN to SFO
So I do the one-way search and see flights from SFO to CDG, through LAX. This is the flight that I took this past May to arrive in FLR. In particular, it would be AF65 for the LAX-CDG segment.
Search for CDG-VRN and dl.com returns nothing. So I call in and the agent can't find any 100k award.
Ugh, I can't wait to get rid of these miles.
Hmm, AF only goes out to 5/21/13 for award search as of today.
5/25/13 SFO to VRN
6/9/13 TRN to SFO
So I do the one-way search and see flights from SFO to CDG, through LAX. This is the flight that I took this past May to arrive in FLR. In particular, it would be AF65 for the LAX-CDG segment.
Search for CDG-VRN and dl.com returns nothing. So I call in and the agent can't find any 100k award.
Ugh, I can't wait to get rid of these miles.
Hmm, AF only goes out to 5/21/13 for award search as of today.
Jul 21, 2012, 1:05 pm
#1178
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SUX
Programs: BA Silver; HHonors Gold; SPG Gold; Points but dirt with everyone else
Posts: 8,050
Have you tried searching by schedule on DL.dumb? I can find CDG-VRN via that method. Admittedly, only economy comes up when airfrance.us reports biz inventory, but for that short of flight, it doesn't really matter.
And yes, the FB engine only searches 10 months out even though AF/KL have inventory to 330 days out. You need ExpertFlyer to search that last bit.
And yes, the FB engine only searches 10 months out even though AF/KL have inventory to 330 days out. You need ExpertFlyer to search that last bit.
Jul 21, 2012, 1:37 pm
#1180
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SUX
Programs: BA Silver; HHonors Gold; SPG Gold; Points but dirt with everyone else
Posts: 8,050
That's 'cause there's no award inventory on that date, according to ExpertFlyer. Even a good award booking engine won't find inventory that doesn't exist.
Jul 21, 2012, 4:47 pm
#1183
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1,147
Jul 21, 2012, 5:44 pm
#1185
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1,147