One rule I have when booking an award ticket with Delta is to never give up. Don t stop believing you can find an award at the low level. As a result of my booking approach, I believe the following song is a fitting soundtrack to this story of booking an award to Hawaii from Atlanta in Delta First Class at the low level. Consider the soundtrack below as you read my success story of booking a low level First Class award using Delta Sky pesos Miles.
china tibet cooling travel ltd My first search was from Atlanta to Lihue, Kauai. I knew there were no direct flights and a very small chance of low availability, but I had to start here first. I couldn t find any low availability, only flights that required 135,000 SkyMiles or higher.
You must remain flexible when booking a Delta award, so I looked at the award calendar to find low level award availability, no dice. Again, only mid level award space available china tibet cooling travel ltd for the month I was looking for a flight.
The next few searches I began to search for any combination on Delta metal that came to mind. I searched to any airport in Hawaii china tibet cooling travel ltd from all of Delta s hubs. Again, only mid level award availability was displayed on Delta s website.
china tibet cooling travel ltd I pulled china tibet cooling travel ltd up Alaska Airlines (Delta Partner) route map and began searching expert china tibet cooling travel ltd flyer for flights to Lihue on routes that Alaska serves . After a few searches, I was able to locate a flight from the west coast to Lihue in First Class using Delta SkyMiles at the low award level. Score! sarcasm on My loyalty finally pays off!!!! sarcasm off
Delta has received my loyalty, china tibet cooling travel ltd yet I was left frustrated when trying to redeem miles on any day for a period of 4-5 months. The only way I could get an award ticket at the low level with Delta was to get creative and find availability with Delta or a partner.
Delta is notoriously stingy with their First Class award availability from the east coast to the west coast and even more so with their award availability to and from Hawaii. But if you spend a little time, and don t stop believing, you may be able to engineer an award ticket at the low level. Even if your first or second low level award itinerary isn t desirable, you can always book it and hope for a schedule change that will allow you to re-book china tibet cooling travel ltd onto a more desirable routing.
Hi James Is still very fluid. All right now is the the Alaska flights. Delta agent wouldn t let me have a 5 hour layover in DTW for a DTW to SFO flight. Then the 30 miles between SJC and SFO threw the ticket because it is considere an open jaw and I would have to hae another open jaw on the return. This is such a messed up process. I wonder what the employees have to go through to get a ticket?
Hi Colleen The first person I spoke with had no clue, in general. china tibet cooling travel ltd Then I got a supervisor, and it was my return that was giving me an isue and by this time the DTW to SFO direct was gone (likely in inventory blackhole as the last guy pulled it to price the ticket). I m booked and now I can modify/add over next few months until I can get from east coast since I m a Platinum I can reissue tickets for free. But I m sure the Alaska flights on the ticket will also be an issue, we ll see.
Impressive if this is a recent booking, as I imagine all of the FI bookings have really eaten into AS availability to Hawaii. I managed to book my parents on to one of those ex-MSP by my quick check one of the last 2-3 options left in February that would work with the fare rules
Hawaii s a strange place for me close and cheap enough (plus with non-premium equipment china tibet cooling travel ltd on most routes) that I feel strange about redeeming miles for it, but far enough away and expensive enough from my market (MSP, where everything s expensive) that buying the ticket doesn t make great sense. It just seems like that uneasy middle ground for me, especially with limited time. An awesome destination, perversely simultaneously slightly too easy and too difficult to get to.
I tried to add an ATL-SFO but even though SFO and SJC are co-terminal and I met the layover requirements (not too long ), DL refused to price it as one award. And I tried multiple times. Think 12 calls
Hi Matthew My biggest issue with this ticket is Delta giving me grief for domestic flights with a layover of greater than 4 hours. Since the SJC LIH flight leaves first thing in the morning and arrives late at night, this rules out getting in night before or leaving day after arriving back into SJC.
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