Booking a ticket with CO using Skymiles
Aug 25, 2009, 2:12 pm
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Booking a ticket with CO using Skymiles
I'd love to get on a TPA-TLH flight that CO offers, and supposedly using Skyteam, Delta should offer some sort of ability to book the flight, but online, and over the phone, they say that there is no availability, not only for the date I'm looking for, but ever. Is there any way to get them to book the flight for me? Delta's website makes it sound like booking on Skyteam partners would be no problem, but in reality it's not that easy. I know for a fact that it's usually an empty flight, I've flown the TPA-TLH route on several carriers, and it's all the same.
Aug 25, 2009, 6:24 pm
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check avail. on continental.com ... they are pretty bad with award seats. If you find avail. call up delta and they should be able to get it for you. Else check nwa.com and transfer miles to nwa if that looks better.
Aug 25, 2009, 6:37 pm
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Isn't TPA-TLH only a 200 mile flight? I'd drive before I burned miles on something like this.
You have to book with DL. CO is leaving the alliance soon, and I've found them quite Scroogelike with their awards that involve CO.
You have to book with DL. CO is leaving the alliance soon, and I've found them quite Scroogelike with their awards that involve CO.
Aug 26, 2009, 10:29 am
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Yeah, I tried calling Delta, and hit a wall. They didn't seem like they would go out of their way at all to get me on that flight. Normally I'd drive, but there's an important football game in Tally that night that I don't want to miss (FSU-UM) and I'd like to get there early for the "festivities". If anyone's got any ideas, I'd love to hear them...
Aug 26, 2009, 2:55 pm
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Which date are you trying to fly it? There seems to be plenty of award availability from CO on the fights. Generally you can just call DL and give them the flight numbers and they'll do it, even if it is a partner reward.
Aug 28, 2009, 8:29 am
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Are you trying to book it as a round trip? Without that the DL folks will likely balk. And I don't know if they require the Saturday night stay for the reward so that also might mess you up since you're going up Monday morning for the game.
There is also a chance that they are going to see it as a Continental Connection operated by Gulfstream and say that they aren't really a partner. But there is availability on the flight you were looking at.
There is also a chance that they are going to see it as a Continental Connection operated by Gulfstream and say that they aren't really a partner. But there is availability on the flight you were looking at.