32,500 is the new low mileage award?
Feb 13, 2016, 6:40 pm
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32,500 is the new low mileage award?
looking at an award flight in the fall domestic. all flights are showing N fare class at the new (low) level of 32,500.
WHAT HAPPENED TO 25,000??
so now we are earning less miles based on $ fare not distance. And not long after mileage award levels are going up??
Keep Climbing Delta!
When is R. Anderson last day? We should have an FT party. I volunteer to host in NYC!!
WHAT HAPPENED TO 25,000??
so now we are earning less miles based on $ fare not distance. And not long after mileage award levels are going up??
Keep Climbing Delta!
When is R. Anderson last day? We should have an FT party. I volunteer to host in NYC!!
Feb 13, 2016, 6:47 pm
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Can you provide more specifics? This is not true across the board; I see plenty of transcontinental flights that still price at 12500 each way (for example, MCO-SEA), so an exact route would help determine if the base price for a route has been raised or if there is simply no availability released at the lowest level.
Feb 13, 2016, 7:57 pm
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Feb 13, 2016, 8:44 pm
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Feb 13, 2016, 10:44 pm
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Feb 14, 2016, 9:37 am
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Details are NYC-MSY for those that asked. I'll keep trying as a one way rt as is "best practice" 9/1 or 9/2 departure w/ 9/5 return.
happy valentine's day!
Feb 15, 2016, 10:06 am
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I would not expect to find a Low fare bucket on Labor Day. Ever. Be happy if I did, but would not have any expectation that Delta would offer Low.
Feb 15, 2016, 2:00 pm
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Have you considered pay with miles?
I recently got a ticket IAD-PBI and return for 20,000 miles + $3.20. I'll earn MQMs as a result.
I recently got a ticket IAD-PBI and return for 20,000 miles + $3.20. I'll earn MQMs as a result.
Feb 15, 2016, 11:04 pm
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MSP-LAX was available at 25K r/t, or 50K in F for my desired dates in May. I think that may have been with a red-eye home, so not worth it to me.
But to the point just above, I could have done MSP-LAX on good flight times for 25K + $36.20 and still earned over 3,000 mqms. I decided to just pay the $286 fare since that is quite a decent n.s. r/t fare, and save the miles for occasional tix for my kettle partner.
But to the point just above, I could have done MSP-LAX on good flight times for 25K + $36.20 and still earned over 3,000 mqms. I decided to just pay the $286 fare since that is quite a decent n.s. r/t fare, and save the miles for occasional tix for my kettle partner.
Feb 20, 2016, 9:11 am
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award pricing weirdness
looked up DCA-CVG one-way for 17 Mar, found the morning and evening flights in N at 10k and the two mid-day flights in N at 17.5k ... thought it might be time-of-day related, but the F offerings belie that