DL/KE Coshare Flights and No Upgrades
May 26, 1998, 3:13 am
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DL/KE Coshare Flights and No Upgrades
I think it is great that Delta has so many co-share partners, but not all co-share agreements are the same. An example is DL/KE co-share flights. You can fly from ATL to SEL or SEL to HNL on a DL flight number but on KE airplane. However, even though your ticket has a DL flight number you are not allowed to upgrade with SkyMiles. According to Delta, upgrades are not allowed by terms and conditions of their co-share agreement with Korean Air. If you wish to upgrade, you need to buy a ticket on the same flight but with a KE flight number and then use 50,000 SkyMiles for a Korean Airline Partner Award. You will still earn SkyMiles for your travel but they will not be base miles which qualify towards Elite status. This is another of those unwritten rules that Delta does not wish to publish in its 1998 Program Rules.
May 27, 1998, 10:46 am
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I didn't realize this. I thought that anything with a Delta flight number followed Delta upgrade rules. I always thought it would be tough to get an upgrade seats because the Delta seat block on codeshares is often very small, but I didn't realize it was prohibited.
May 29, 1998, 9:37 am
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Go ahead and call the SkyMile Customer Service Center and ask them if you can upgrade flight DL2631 HNL/SEL or DL 2636 SEL/ATL. In the past they have told me that upgrades were prohibited on KE flights by their co-share agreement. I ask if other partner airlines were effected and was told that Varig (no longer a partner) and I believe TAP also prohibited upgrades. I wonder if some of the new partner like Transbrazil or Jamacian is effected.