Should I use AMEX Rewards Points (+35% rebate) or Delta miles to book a delta flight?
Sep 7, 2019, 12:06 am
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Should I use AMEX Rewards Points (+35% rebate) or Delta miles to book a delta flight?
Should I use AMEX Rewards Points (including 35% rebate) or Delta miles to book this delta flight RT JFK-->LAX?
It would cost 90,500 delta sky miles, or 92,119 AMEX Rewards points. I would get the 35% AMEX point reimbursement so it would end up being cut down to 59,877 AMEX points.
What do you all think is my best move? Appreciate it!
Thanks!
It would cost 90,500 delta sky miles, or 92,119 AMEX Rewards points. I would get the 35% AMEX point reimbursement so it would end up being cut down to 59,877 AMEX points.
What do you all think is my best move? Appreciate it!
Thanks!
Sep 7, 2019, 7:53 am
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Personally, and speaking as someone who is sitting on a pile of SkyMiles at the moment, I'd use the DL miles because the AmEx points (even at 2/3 the amount) are likely to have more uses in the future.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:03 pm
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That's almost enough MR for an ANA J class return/open-jaw ticket to Asia. Using them for a domestic transcon seems to be a poor value.
Sep 11, 2019, 4:50 am
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Should I use AMEX Rewards Points (including 35% rebate) or Delta miles to book this delta flight RT JFK-->LAX?
It would cost 90,500 delta sky miles, or 92,119 AMEX Rewards points. I would get the 35% AMEX point reimbursement so it would end up being cut down to 59,877 AMEX points.
What do you all think is my best move? Appreciate it!
Thanks!
It would cost 90,500 delta sky miles, or 92,119 AMEX Rewards points. I would get the 35% AMEX point reimbursement so it would end up being cut down to 59,877 AMEX points.
What do you all think is my best move? Appreciate it!
Thanks!