VN award space booking by Sky Pesos
Nov 20, 2019, 1:18 pm
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VN award space booking by Sky Pesos
Any idea when VN releases award space to Delta (or Delta allows booking?)? I need to book HAN-SGN in early Feb. and everything is still blocked after Jan 22 despite Air France having access......
Nov 20, 2019, 1:57 pm
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Jan 22 to Jan 28 are within Delta blackout dates.
You need to book your flights for a date before Jan 22 or after Jan 28 if you want to book it using DL SlyMiles.
Blackout dates used to apply just to a few airlines, like KE, but it seems that now it's blanket and applies to all, in addition to CZ specific blackout dates.
EDIT: for February though it is not listed in the blackout dates... so this may not be it here. It just rang a bell given Jan 22 you said starting blackout.
DL has been also well known to have a lot of unpublished blackout dates, for both its own and other airline flights, though those come and go from time to time. So this is more likely that then here.
Nov 21, 2019, 7:53 am
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Delta provides generous servings of blackout dates. See: https://www.delta.com/us/en/skymiles.../program-rules
Jan 22 to Jan 28 are within Delta blackout dates.
You need to book your flights for a date before Jan 22 or after Jan 28 if you want to book it using DL SlyMiles.
Blackout dates used to apply just to a few airlines, like KE, but it seems that now it's blanket and applies to all, in addition to CZ specific blackout dates.
EDIT: for February though it is not listed in the blackout dates... so this may not be it here. It just rang a bell given Jan 22 you said starting blackout.
DL has been also well known to have a lot of unpublished blackout dates, for both its own and other airline flights, though those come and go from time to time. So this is more likely that then here.
Jan 22 to Jan 28 are within Delta blackout dates.
You need to book your flights for a date before Jan 22 or after Jan 28 if you want to book it using DL SlyMiles.
Blackout dates used to apply just to a few airlines, like KE, but it seems that now it's blanket and applies to all, in addition to CZ specific blackout dates.
EDIT: for February though it is not listed in the blackout dates... so this may not be it here. It just rang a bell given Jan 22 you said starting blackout.
DL has been also well known to have a lot of unpublished blackout dates, for both its own and other airline flights, though those come and go from time to time. So this is more likely that then here.
Nov 21, 2019, 9:42 am
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Nov 21, 2019, 9:16 pm
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Early February might be too close to Tet, the Lunar New Year, on January 25. This would explain Delta's black-out dates, but award availability may be gone on nearby dates.
About a month ago I booked CXR-SGN-SIN for March without any problems. I actually called Delta first thinking it would require an agent; turned out the agent didn't know what they were doing and this was very easy on delta.com
About a month ago I booked CXR-SGN-SIN for March without any problems. I actually called Delta first thinking it would require an agent; turned out the agent didn't know what they were doing and this was very easy on delta.com
Nov 22, 2019, 6:10 am
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Early February might be too close to Tet, the Lunar New Year, on January 25. This would explain Delta's black-out dates, but award availability may be gone on nearby dates.
About a month ago I booked CXR-SGN-SIN for March without any problems. I actually called Delta first thinking it would require an agent; turned out the agent didn't know what they were doing and this was very easy on delta.com
About a month ago I booked CXR-SGN-SIN for March without any problems. I actually called Delta first thinking it would require an agent; turned out the agent didn't know what they were doing and this was very easy on delta.com
Nov 22, 2019, 7:03 am
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Nov 22, 2019, 7:25 am
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This is so strange.
1. Air france was phantom spce.
2. The ITA matrix rates are not correct.
3.. Cheapest flight Feb 5 one way is $146/ea in Chase for Viet Jet in Chase, but must be some fee in there rather than booking direct.
Sitting on over 2 million points overall, so still booking with Chase. Thanks for all the help!
1. Air france was phantom spce.
2. The ITA matrix rates are not correct.
3.. Cheapest flight Feb 5 one way is $146/ea in Chase for Viet Jet in Chase, but must be some fee in there rather than booking direct.
Sitting on over 2 million points overall, so still booking with Chase. Thanks for all the help!