DL - Double miles with Savings Bonds?
 

I was reading todays Washington Post Business Class column. The author mentioned getting double miles using AMEX-DL Skymiles card if you bought savings bonds. But I could not find any info on DL site about this double miles deal. Also, always double miles has no mention of it either... any thoughts?

There was a double-miles-on-everything Delta Amex promotion earlier this year, but it's over and everyone is waiting for the double miles to post...expected in early to mid-October.

You can get single miles now by purchasing at www.savingsbonds.gov (not dot com).

Beginning the end of this year it will become impossible to purchase bonds with a credit card, so if you want miles you have to do it in the next few months.

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Middle_Seat

Check this out:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum21/HTML/011692.html

Clarification please: Can I charge both EE and I bonds to my credit cards -- with a limit of $30k for the EE and $30k for the I bonds? My gut reaction is that I'm limited to $30k of charges altogether. Can you clarify?

Yes, you are allowed to spend 60k a year on Savings Bonds. 30k for IBonds, 30k(60k face value) on EBonds

I am not sure if the previous post deals with limits on savings bond purchases imposed by American Express OR by the Treasury. I don't know about AMEX, but as for the Treasury, you can easily evade the yearly purchase limits (15K E and 30K I, IIRC) by putting your mother's, father's, kid's, or wife's name as the first owner of the bond and yourself as the second owner.

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The month of October promises to be GLORIOUS!

There are several threads in either AMEX or DL's forums discussing just about everything possible regarding the soon-to-end ability to purchase bonds using credit cards. I'm surprised UPGRADME hasn't provided the links http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Yeah, that "Mark Fisher" guy in the article sounds like a pretty bright guy. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Wait until October and you will get triple mile.

No smilie? No explanation?

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Middle_Seat