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Feb 22, 2019, 10:11 am
#5191
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
Programs: DL Plat (won't hit DM again) 2MM (2.5), HH Gold, PC Gold, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 5,626
RDU-ATL-MSY 3/20
MSY-ATL-RDU 3/26
Booked in Y, immediate upgrade to C+.
12,500 miles +$11.20.
Booked in early January.
Same trip purchased today, not quite a month out would be about 30,500 SM or $350.
delta.com is currently offering upgrades to FC $234.35/21,800 SM RDU-MSY, $1363.10/126,800 SM MSY-RDU
Going to my 50th high school reunion!
MSY-ATL-RDU 3/26
Booked in Y, immediate upgrade to C+.
12,500 miles +$11.20.
Booked in early January.
Same trip purchased today, not quite a month out would be about 30,500 SM or $350.
delta.com is currently offering upgrades to FC $234.35/21,800 SM RDU-MSY, $1363.10/126,800 SM MSY-RDU
Going to my 50th high school reunion!
Feb 22, 2019, 10:12 am
#5192
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
Programs: DL Plat (won't hit DM again) 2MM (2.5), HH Gold, PC Gold, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 5,626
.Of course, this pov may also be a function of my being retired and able to search/use SM for domestic deals.
Last edited by mot29; Feb 22, 2019 at 10:41 am
Feb 23, 2019, 2:10 pm
#5194
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Knoxville, TN
Programs: Delta (diamond), Hilton (diamond)
Posts: 76
TYS-ATL-BOS-LIS rt, pricing out at $1800 (!!!) and 74k SM main cabin for mid Aug. Got 3. Looks like a domestic or Hawaii 757 on the BOS-LIS leg with the first class seats rebranded as PS (lol). Let’s see if it drops....
Feb 23, 2019, 5:32 pm
#5195
Join Date: May 2013
Location: DTW
Programs: AMEX, Ritz LT-Plat Prem, Hyatt Plat, SPG Plat, Hilton Diamond, Delta Plat, United Gold, Sixt Plat
Posts: 866
Feb 28, 2019, 12:44 pm
#5196
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
Programs: DL Plat (won't hit DM again) 2MM (2.5), HH Gold, PC Gold, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 5,626
RDU-JFK-CPH mid-August
PRG-JFK-RDU early-Sept, total 3 week trip First and D1, but because it uses the DL JFK-Europe flights, no Euro Business.
128,000 SM +$53.23 using the 2 day sale on the delta.com login spash page.
Searched for 128,000 mile RTs to CPH and PRG and then combined the successful dates.
Cheapest cash price I could find (also on the sale?) is about $3300.
PRG-JFK-RDU early-Sept, total 3 week trip First and D1, but because it uses the DL JFK-Europe flights, no Euro Business.
128,000 SM +$53.23 using the 2 day sale on the delta.com login spash page.
Searched for 128,000 mile RTs to CPH and PRG and then combined the successful dates.
Cheapest cash price I could find (also on the sale?) is about $3300.
Last edited by mot29; Feb 28, 2019 at 12:51 pm
Feb 28, 2019, 2:30 pm
#5198
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
Programs: DL Plat (won't hit DM again) 2MM (2.5), HH Gold, PC Gold, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 5,626
And the dates are book by March 1, 2019, and travel from August 7 through September 5, 2019. And the small print talks about SkyTeam and code-share partners.
Feb 28, 2019, 3:30 pm
#5199
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 23,070
They have had these 128K Europe awards around for or at least a week or two. While the two-day award sale says the awards are only good for 8/7 - 9/5, the fare rules for the CSVR640 fares say they are good from 6/30 - 9/6 and I'm definitely seeing availability for these awards in the July on a number of routes.
Feb 28, 2019, 4:29 pm
#5200
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Bay Area
Programs: DL SM, UA MP.
Posts: 12,729
They have had these 128K Europe awards around for or at least a week or two. While the two-day award sale says the awards are only good for 8/7 - 9/5, the fare rules for the CSVR640 fares say they are good from 6/30 - 9/6 and I'm definitely seeing availability for these awards in the July on a number of routes.
Almost all of them have pretty unattractive schedules either outbound or return. For instance, around 25 hour returns from Italy and 25 hour outbounds to Germany. Even CDG was over 20 hours for the return and worse in other cities in France.
Only one that had tolerable schedules both ways were LHR but that had a $315 fee. The places I'm looking to visit are either NCE or VRN so I could buy separate flights out of LHR, probably have to spend at least one night in London on the return. It's doable but probably would cost me another $400 or more for the additional flight.
I haven't even figured out how much it would cost to transfer 128k MR points but add that and the savings from the sale versus redemptions on other airlines are probably out the window.
Maybe if I decide to visit the UK in late August, early September, this fare sale would work out but I don't know if the UK, including probably Scotland, would be the place to visit at that time of the year.
Apr 21, 2019, 5:46 pm
#5201
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: BUR
Programs: AA, DL Platinum, AS, AF/KL, UA, VS, HA, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold, Hertz Presidents Circle
Posts: 1,788
FCO-AMS-GLA one-way on KL in Economy
15,000 SM plus $53
This usually wouldn’t warrant a post here but in this case due to WX irrops, KL cancelled the FCO-AMS leg the day before and re-booked me on LH for a FCO-FRA-GLA itinerary. This allowed me to sample a couple of LH Business lounges using my (non DL) AMEX Platinum card which I found superior to the AMS lounge options and I noticed KL paid LH a full Y fare so I got to earn about 1,600 UA MP miles. Not usual you get to EARN miles on an award ticket.
15,000 SM plus $53
This usually wouldn’t warrant a post here but in this case due to WX irrops, KL cancelled the FCO-AMS leg the day before and re-booked me on LH for a FCO-FRA-GLA itinerary. This allowed me to sample a couple of LH Business lounges using my (non DL) AMEX Platinum card which I found superior to the AMS lounge options and I noticed KL paid LH a full Y fare so I got to earn about 1,600 UA MP miles. Not usual you get to EARN miles on an award ticket.
Apr 22, 2019, 12:58 pm
#5203
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: NYC
Programs: DL Platinum, AA Plat Pro, Bonvoy Lifetime Platinum, JetBlue Mosaic 3, Amtrak Select
Posts: 966
59,000 JFK-AMS R/T non stop in Y. Bought for my girlfriend to meet me in Amsterdam on a trip I booked before we met. Not the best deal, but not a bad use of extra skymiles lying around.
Still hoping a good flash sale will come and I can rebook at a lower rate
Still hoping a good flash sale will come and I can rebook at a lower rate
Apr 25, 2019, 8:12 am
#5204
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: NYC
Posts: 427
I'd just booked a JFK-NAS rt in F for 56k last night, and this morning it drops to 54k. Thankfully I'm within the 24hr risk-free cancellation window, so just cancelled and rebooked, saved myself 4k miles yay. Not an amazing redemption value at 1.45cpm, but not bad for SkyPesos.