Did you cancel within 24 hours?

worked well on some e-credits expiring 12/31/23. Had a $178.60 unused ticket credit and booked a new ticket that cost $178.90. Applied the credit + 30 cents from my Apple Cash. Canceled ticket shortly after and new e-credit is today + 1 year.

No.
I had several thousand in e-credit-tickets - some of those were more than 6 months old when I cancelled and received newly issued e-credits or "unused e-tickets" with new expiry dates.

If you find a workaround it works only until too many customers start using it - then it becomes a priority business case for the company to close the loophole.

When it is shared in a forum, also read by some intern Delta analyst, the loophole will be eliminated much faster

Are the ecredits redeem by or fly by? My email for COVID flight extension says redeem by, but an agent told me that mine was fly by. He did agree to a one time courtesy and let me book for a flight next year and now it says my ticket validity is redeem by August 17.

so did I screw myself out of 4 months of ticket validity since it was expiring in Dec 31, 2023 with the ability to book into 2024?

Covid rule was book by 12/31/23 for travel up to late Nov/2024 (330 days).

This took me about 10 minutes to figure out. Yes you can extend your e-credit. book a new flight preferably close to 330 days out with your existing e-credit. Immediately cancel the flight for e-credit. The expiration date will now be 30 days after the flight date that you just cancelled. Kind of an odd e-credit expiration timing built into their logic. That's why you want to book a flight that is almost a year out to maximize the e-credit expiration date. If you book a flight that is 30 days for now (and also past the original e-credit exp. date) then your e-credit would expire in 60 days.

Ecredit expiring 12/31/23. Booked a flight today, 10/31/23 for 4/25/23 for $13 more than my ecredit. After booking, went to cancel. It offered me an ecredit, expiring 5/10/2024 for my full ecredit plus the $13 I put on my cc.

Have you verified that the ecredit issued reflects the 5/10/24 date? I did this several months ago, the refund page indicated a 2024 expiration, but the actual ecredit in my wallet still shows 12/31/23.

Did the $13 also go to ecredit or back on CC?

It seems when using part of the ecredit it changed the remaining from partially transferable to non-transferable

I’m not as experienced with Ecredits but I also have one expiring 12-31-23. Is it correct I can use it for a May 2024 reservation? The expiry is the ‘book by’ date and not the ‘fly by’ date?

I was doubtful about this at first, but I can confirm that the above method of booking and canceling immediately works. Double checked the expiration under My Profile and the new expiry is 30 days after the flight date. I think the trick is cancelling within 24 hours. I think it reverts back to 12/31/23 if you wait past the 24 hour period. Odd logic but I'll take it.

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100% success for me as well on the book and immediately cancel for a 12 month extension from today.

only hiccup I’ve run into is I have my delta emails sent to an AwardWallet email for processing, which auto-adds them, so it thinks I have this crazy amount of flights I need to manually clear out!

Did you need to buy a refundable ticket?
 

I am going to try this. But did you buy a refundable ticket? And just requested refund within 24 hours?

Thanks.