Thrown out of SkyBonus
Jan 11, 2014, 9:05 am
#46
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Yes, especially if you have flights in premium cabins or the higher coach fare classes, and even more so if you are not based in a hub city.
Jan 11, 2014, 9:27 am
#47
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It may not give you much, but it is free, and points rack up automatically if you just put your SkyBonus number in your DL SkyMiles profile.
Jan 11, 2014, 9:53 am
#48
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Yes, they expire on December 31 of the third full year after you earned them — and there is absolutely no way to extend their expiration date, no matter how much activity your SkyBonus account experiences.
Jan 11, 2014, 10:06 am
#49
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And unlike the annual spend requirements, the points expiration dates are pretty prominently displayed on your account activity page. Not quite sure how someone could miss those. I also don't think 3 years is an unreasonable expiration limit. We've never really had any issues spending them within that timeframe.
Jan 11, 2014, 10:19 am
#50
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There is no one here more worthy of being "piled on" than that person because of that person's constant and abject stated disdain for anyone who disagrees with his viewpoint , and I am sure that person could care less. And, yes, the cheerleading outfit does leave quite an impression in my mind as well.
Jan 11, 2014, 10:21 am
#51
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Delta can do what they want, but...
A little notice - even 60 days would be the right thing to do. Yea, we would all then CASH out what we could, but so what?
To just sweep people under the rug is wrong.
A little notice - even 60 days would be the right thing to do. Yea, we would all then CASH out what we could, but so what?
To just sweep people under the rug is wrong.
Jan 11, 2014, 10:25 am
#52
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And unlike the annual spend requirements, the points expiration dates are pretty prominently displayed on your account activity page. Not quite sure how someone could miss those. I also don't think 3 years is an unreasonable expiration limit. We've never really had any issues spending them within that timeframe.
For the record, what I posted was intended to be a statement of fact for the information of fellow FlyerTalk members rather than an editorial opinion.
Also, your SkyBonus points could last as many as almost four years if you earned them in January of a particular year.
Jan 11, 2014, 10:33 am
#53
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Jan 11, 2014, 10:56 am
#54
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Those of you piling on bubbashow...
In posts #13 and #15 he asked a question. Granted, it might have been a little direct, but it was a question. In post #20, he acknowledges it was a situation he didn't understand previously. We've all seen bubbashow advocate strongly on other threads, but in this case, once he understood SkyBonus was a perk used honestly by real business people, there was no disagreement or accusation that this was a fake program by people trying to scam DL.
Not that bubbashow likely cares what any of us thinks, as his attitude has served him well and been a platform for success, but I'm pointing this out anyway, because fair is fair.
In posts #13 and #15 he asked a question. Granted, it might have been a little direct, but it was a question. In post #20, he acknowledges it was a situation he didn't understand previously. We've all seen bubbashow advocate strongly on other threads, but in this case, once he understood SkyBonus was a perk used honestly by real business people, there was no disagreement or accusation that this was a fake program by people trying to scam DL.
Not that bubbashow likely cares what any of us thinks, as his attitude has served him well and been a platform for success, but I'm pointing this out anyway, because fair is fair.
Jan 11, 2014, 11:29 am
#55
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And unlike the annual spend requirements, the points expiration dates are pretty prominently displayed on your account activity page. Not quite sure how someone could miss those. I also don't think 3 years is an unreasonable expiration limit. We've never really had any issues spending them within that timeframe.
Jan 11, 2014, 12:13 pm
#57
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I agree that three years is fair.
I just signed up for it five or six years ago and forgot about it. Didn't add my new employees, didn't use the points for two or three years.
I have no one to blame but myself. I will get this fixed next week. I only wish this would have come to my attention two weeks ago so I could have used those points.
Tickets DTW to LGA were $1400+ last week.
If DL is trying to determine which spots are "too nice" for business that is ridiculous.
I just signed up for it five or six years ago and forgot about it. Didn't add my new employees, didn't use the points for two or three years.
I have no one to blame but myself. I will get this fixed next week. I only wish this would have come to my attention two weeks ago so I could have used those points.
Tickets DTW to LGA were $1400+ last week.
If DL is trying to determine which spots are "too nice" for business that is ridiculous.
Jan 11, 2014, 12:18 pm
#58
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Looks like they closed down my small business account too, without warning or even notification. It was inherited from the NW BizPerks days and mostly got me drink chits, which mostly expired unused. However I had just cashed out accumulated expiring points for a domestic coach award, so there was not much left to forfeit.
Another Delta enhancement. Spending has dropped, but must have been over $5K from three people last year. Mostly from 8 TATL tickets so if they count like MQD a lot of that could have been excluded as tax.
Another Delta enhancement. Spending has dropped, but must have been over $5K from three people last year. Mostly from 8 TATL tickets so if they count like MQD a lot of that could have been excluded as tax.
Jan 11, 2014, 1:57 pm
#59
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I'm pretty sure they exclude taxes and fees. You can get a breakdown on each ticket by clicking on it in SkyBonus. Still, a nice bar graph ala MQD would have been nice.
Jan 11, 2014, 2:13 pm
#60
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And unlike the annual spend requirements, the points expiration dates are pretty prominently displayed on your account activity page. Not quite sure how someone could miss those. I also don't think 3 years is an unreasonable expiration limit. We've never really had any issues spending them within that timeframe.
Got to pay closer attention to this.