More bad news for Delta SkyMiles members today!
News, Tips & Tricks
Delta Airlines SkyMiles is the latest frequent flyer program to
increase mileage requirements on select award ticket redemptions. The
announcement was made on FlyerTalk
that due to significant investment and enhancements to their Business
Class product they recognized the need for adjustments to our low
mileage redemption levels for select international Award Tickets in
BusinessElite. Serious? Not a good move in any case for a program that
gets chastized a lot in the Frequent Flyer world. Most of the award
affected are going up by 25% however some are less. The changes went
live today for travel on and after June 1, 2014. Here are some of the
increases being reported:
Canada/USA -Europe will move up to 125k from 100k
Canada/USA -Asia will move up to 140k from 120k
Canada/USA -Australia will move up to 160k from 150k
Canada/USA -South Africa will move up to 160k from 140k
They are also discontinuing their Award Ticket hold option which means if you will actually have to book an award ticket to hold the seats and cancel with their 24 hour risk free policy if you are unsure about your travel. Once again not so good for the SkyMiles members considering how many problems their online award booking engine has.
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