I’m not the biggest fan of Delta’s Sky Miles program for one simple reason: They charge a crazy amount of points when you want to redeem for award travel. Not always, but a lot of the time! What’s crazy? How about 157,000 miles needed for roundtrip business class between LAX and Kona, Hawaii this month. Or how about 80,000 miles for a business class ticket to New York from LAX roundtrip. 80,000 miles is a ton to spend for a flight under 6 hours (in my opinion,) especially when you consider you can generally find availability to Europe in business class for around 100,000 points on partner airlines like Air France. That being said, here’s your last chance to score some serious bonus Delta points on transfers. From Delta’s website: “Bring your friends and family with you on your next vacation. Transfer miles to that special someone between August 10 and September 30, 2011 and we’ll give them a 100% mileage bonus.” Same thing for buying miles: “Need more miles to get to your next vacation? For a limited-time, get a 100% mileage bonus [Read more...]
25,000 Delta SkyMiles For Shopping At Sky Mall
September 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jet-setters, you all know Sky Mall. It’s that catalog in the back of your seat on just about every airplane. You probably scan through it (because hey, you’ve got a bunch of time to kill on your flight.) You probably rarely order something, but you think, “Hmmmm…maybe I could use this,” or, “That’s cool!” Well, turns out now may be a time to stock up on a few items you never ended up buying from Sky Mall. That’s because purchases of at least [Read more...]
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