Purchasing Delta FF
May 22, 1998, 10:25 am
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Purchasing Delta FF
Would someone give me basic advice/info on the procedure, cost, etc. of purchasing add'l
skymiles for delta to be used in conjunction with my personal miles
skymiles for delta to be used in conjunction with my personal miles
May 22, 1998, 10:25 am
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Purchasing Delta FF
Would someone give me basic advice/info on the procedure, cost, etc. of purchasing add'l
skymiles for delta to be used in conjunction with my personal miles
skymiles for delta to be used in conjunction with my personal miles
May 22, 1998, 11:50 am
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If you are interested, I can send you
an application for a Diners Club card. If approved you can get 10,000 miles by paying the $80 annual fee. The miles can be transferred in 1000 mile increment to most US airlines including Delta.
an application for a Diners Club card. If approved you can get 10,000 miles by paying the $80 annual fee. The miles can be transferred in 1000 mile increment to most US airlines including Delta.
May 22, 1998, 11:58 am
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I thought only corporations could purchase skymiles and are limited to giving only 5000
per person.
per person.
May 22, 1998, 12:27 pm
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Anybody can buy them, but they're intended (and priced) mostly for corporations. The minumum purchase is 150,000 miles for $3,000. (From time to time they run a promo where you get 175,000 for the same price.) There's a limit of giving a max of 25,000 to one person in one year. So, if you wanted to make up the 3,000 miles you're short for an award, Delta isn't one of the airlines that lets you do that.
Besides the Diners Club suggestion posted earlier, you can get a few Kmiles by signing up for MCI long-distance service. How many depends on what you sign up for and which offer you reply to. Some of them give you so much to start and then so much a month for a few months, so you have to stay with MCI for a while.
You can also get 5,000 miles by getting a Delta Optima card, 10,000 for Gold. The plain one is free if you have an AmEx card (perhaps just AmEx Gold/Plat; I forget) so there's no reason not to. The Gold Optimna costs $20 a year if you have AmEx, so it's worth it for the extra 5,000 miles (worth about $75-100).
Besides the Diners Club suggestion posted earlier, you can get a few Kmiles by signing up for MCI long-distance service. How many depends on what you sign up for and which offer you reply to. Some of them give you so much to start and then so much a month for a few months, so you have to stay with MCI for a while.
You can also get 5,000 miles by getting a Delta Optima card, 10,000 for Gold. The plain one is free if you have an AmEx card (perhaps just AmEx Gold/Plat; I forget) so there's no reason not to. The Gold Optimna costs $20 a year if you have AmEx, so it's worth it for the extra 5,000 miles (worth about $75-100).
May 27, 1998, 4:11 pm
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If your a member of Hilton you can transfer miles into Hilton or Hilton into Delta