no-status flier on DL award ticket from Platinum member -- SDC change = free?

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Aug 21, 2018, 6:50 am

#16

SamOF

Join Date: Oct 2007

Location: DCA

Programs: DL DM, AA EXP, various hotel

Posts: 2,227

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Originally Posted by yohanson

That's only true for first class. Anything in coach will be whatever the going rate is at that time.

You have to remember that award tickets come in buckets as well-- N, NL, NX, NK, etc. Each of those buckets have award fares filed. So, for example, I might book a 20,000 mile award that books into NX with a 21 day advance purchase. On the day of travel, though, the only award fare filed in NX might be 30,000 miles.

I don't have to pay the extra 10,000 miles to SDC. It works just like paid travel in that way--if a seat is available in the fare bucket, even if you can't purchase it outright at the same fare/mileage level, it's yours for a SDC.

Aug 21, 2018, 8:49 am

#17

SDQBound

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: 4,630

As others mentioned, as long as the fare subset is available (NX, NL, NK) which most of the time seem to correlate with the Y fare bucket availability, no additional miles will be collected. However, if only a higher fare subset is available, it will be necessary to use additional miles to rebook the ticket in the available fare, and then the SDC can be processed.

Aug 22, 2018, 9:39 pm

#18

yohanson

Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: Twin Cities

Programs: Delta DM MM, IHG Plat, Hilton DM, Marriott SE, Emerald EE, Oakdale Gun Club, NRA & GOA Life Member

Posts: 3,870

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Originally Posted by SDQBound

Between 2-3 years ago, I tried to SDC 3 different times on an award fare and I was told I had to pay the difference between what I had purchased originally and what they were selling the seats for. Perhaps I had bad agents or perhaps my bucket wasn't available. I turned it down 2 of the 3 times.