E-mail Promotes Partner Award Searches on DL.com: Anything New Here?
May 30, 2008, 11:24 am
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E-mail Promotes Partner Award Searches on DL.com: Anything New Here?
Just got this mass email from Jeff Robertson ...
Is any of this really new?
Hello jbatl,
You want to travel with your miles, and we're making it easier.
You can now shop for Award Travel on Air France (new!), Continental Airlines®, Northwest Airlines®, Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines using our SkyMiles® Award Calendar at delta.com.
With 97% of our Award Travel available on delta.com, you now have access to thousands of flights to hundreds of world-wide destinations. Search for Award seats by what matters most to you—lowest mileage amount or convenient schedule.
You'll also avoid direct ticketing fees and potential wait times when you book at delta.com. And as a Medallion® member, we've waived the $25 fee for your second checked bag. So book the best Award seats online, pack your bags and enjoy your trip!
You're the reason we fly,
J. W. Robertson
Managing Director, SkyMiles
You want to travel with your miles, and we're making it easier.
You can now shop for Award Travel on Air France (new!), Continental Airlines®, Northwest Airlines®, Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines using our SkyMiles® Award Calendar at delta.com.
With 97% of our Award Travel available on delta.com, you now have access to thousands of flights to hundreds of world-wide destinations. Search for Award seats by what matters most to you—lowest mileage amount or convenient schedule.
You'll also avoid direct ticketing fees and potential wait times when you book at delta.com. And as a Medallion® member, we've waived the $25 fee for your second checked bag. So book the best Award seats online, pack your bags and enjoy your trip!
You're the reason we fly,
J. W. Robertson
Managing Director, SkyMiles
May 30, 2008, 11:38 am
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Air France is offically online now, they weren't before.
May 30, 2008, 11:53 am
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Today, I could get AF from nonstop JFK-CDG, but not nonstop IAD-CDG. This is true even of the DL codeshare nonstop on AF. Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong? Thanks.
May 30, 2008, 12:22 pm
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Now, if they would just fix the stupid search tool so that it runs at a reasonable speed. The "new" DL.com is starting to remind me of UA.bomb.
May 30, 2008, 2:38 pm
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It appears to be VERY hit of miss as to the AF inventory. For me, the "tool" is certainly not pulling all AF flight possibilities.
May 30, 2008, 4:18 pm
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Booking a trip ATL-FRA for this weekend, I was seeing availability almost every day, and when I clicked through, I saw so many potential routings, with DL, CO, NW, AF that I was very pleasantly surprised. Actually had to think hard which one to take. Seems at least in this one anecdotal case, there were so many more options than before.
I checked both economy and B/E (of course, showed B/F at higher rate for CO).
Taking my first B/F on CO tonight EWR-FRA, unfortunately ATL-EWR only had coach, but the return FRA-ATL is DL non-stop. Would have never taken the time before to make a call and try to get a seat on CO.
I checked both economy and B/E (of course, showed B/F at higher rate for CO).
Taking my first B/F on CO tonight EWR-FRA, unfortunately ATL-EWR only had coach, but the return FRA-ATL is DL non-stop. Would have never taken the time before to make a call and try to get a seat on CO.
May 30, 2008, 10:11 pm
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I want to find NW awards tix to BKK. How do I do that?
When I just typed in my airport code and BKK, stupid itin. showed up that will take 3 days for me to get there from the east coast, via Air France....
When I just typed in my airport code and BKK, stupid itin. showed up that will take 3 days for me to get there from the east coast, via Air France....
May 31, 2008, 5:34 am
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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320))
Search for it at NW's site. When you find what you want, call DL and tell them the exact flts you want to book.
Originally Posted by Chari910
I want to find NW awards tix to BKK. How do I do that?
When I just typed in my airport code and BKK, stupid itin. showed up that will take 3 days for me to get there from the east coast, via Air France....
When I just typed in my airport code and BKK, stupid itin. showed up that will take 3 days for me to get there from the east coast, via Air France....
May 31, 2008, 8:45 am
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May 31, 2008, 8:22 pm
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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320))
Sadly, yes. I call it the 'Our Website Doesn't Work Fee.'
Originally Posted by 2stepsbehind
doesn't that cost $30?
Last edited by jbatl; May 31, 2008 at 8:22 pm
May 31, 2008, 9:04 pm
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Jun 1, 2008, 2:38 am
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(Good name though) ^
Jun 1, 2008, 2:54 am
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This was the way I always booked LY award tickets until DL discontinued their relationship with them.
Jun 1, 2008, 5:52 am
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I got the same e-mail and all it did was make me even more frustrated with DL. I can't get the search to find flights on partners at all. Tried EWR - HNL expecting to see Continental flights. Nope, all that it found was itins through ATL. Then tried HNL - ITO expecting to see flights on Hawaiian. The search returned no flights at all.