Delta SkyMiles®Gold Card from American Express Review 2022.6 Update2: There’s a 50k+$400 offer via dummy booking on delta.com. If you can only see a 50k+$200 low ball offer, try booking a more expensive ticket. It’s a better offer than the usual 75k offer. HT: DoC. 2022.6 Update2: The new offer is 70k. Offer ends on 2022.8.3. It’s not as good…
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Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card Review 2022.8 Update: The Boeing 747 limited edition card art promo has ended. The 110k offer is also expired. The current offer is a lowball 60k offer. 2022.6 Update: The new offer is 110k. Offer ends on 2022.8.3. You can choose a limited time edition card art made from Boeing 747 materials. 2022.4…
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Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Card from American Express Review 2022.8 Update: The Boeing 747 limited edition card art promo has ended. The 100k offer is still alive, and it expires on 8/24. 2022.6 Update: The new offer is 100k, not as good as the usual 125k offer via incognito mode. However, you can choose a limited time edition card art made…
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Delta SkyMiles® Gold Business American Express Card Review 2022.8 Update: The higher offer is expired. There’s only low ball offer now. 2022.6 Update: The new offer is 75k. Offer ends on 2022.8.3. 2022.4 Update: The higher offer is expired. There’s only low ball offer now. 2022.3 Update: The new offer is 75k. Offer ends on 2022.4.13. Application Link Public offer:…
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Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Business American Express Card Review 2022.8 Update: The higher offer is expired. There’s only low ball offer now. 2022.6 Update: The new offer is 100k. Offer ends on 2022.8.3. 2022.4 Update: The higher offer is expired. There’s only low ball offer now. 2022.3 Update: The new offer is 100k. Offer ends on 2022.4.13. Application Link Public offer: AmEx Delta SkyMiles…
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Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Card from American Express Review 2022.6 Update: The 90k offer still exists. 2022.3 Update: The new offer is 90k. Offer ends on 2022.4.13. It’s similar to the regular 90k offer showing in incognito mode. Application Link Public offer: AmEx Delta SkyMiles Platinum 90k offer Targeted offer: AmEx Delta SkyMiles Platinum targeted offer. If you see “PLEASE VERIFY…
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Delta SkyMiles® Blue Card from American Express Review 2020.4 Update: The new offer is 10k. 2020.1 Update: The welcome offer is 15k now. This card is also revamped, the changes are: Earn 2x on restaurants now (previously 1x); No foreign transaction fee now. Application Link AmEx Blue Delta SkyMiles Benefits 10k offer: earn 10,000 Miles after spending $500 in first…
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Today it was announced that American Airlines is going to raise the revenue requirements for Executive Platinum. At American, it used to be the case that you need to spend $12,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQD) to earn the Executive Platinum status. Now the EQD threshold has increased to $15,000, representing a 25% hike. This move actually mirrored what United has done…
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Delta SkyMiles, the most shadowy program of all times Delta Airlines is not famous for its transparency when it comes to mileage award. After all, once you see Delta charges 300,000 miles for a one-way award on its own metal between the United States and Asia, it should be pretty clear that they can do whatever they want … because…
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No matter who your favorite airline is, one thing is for sure: Delta SkyMile kinda sucks. For years bloggers have been bashing Delta for (1) removing award chart, (2) inflating their redemption rate without notice, (3) charging a leg and an arm to redeem Delta’s long-haul business product, and most recently (4) putting restrictions on ticketing within 72 hours of departure….
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This is an introduction to how to retroactively request mileage credit on the major U.S. airlines. There are a variety of reasons one might want to retroactively request mileage credit. For instance: The miles from a flight you took do not appear in your frequent flyer account after a certain period of time (varies by airline, as described below). You…
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Companion certificates are a valuable benefit of several airline credit cards. In many cases the money saved when using the companion ticket more than offsets the cost of the annual fee. Generally, companion certificates allow two people to fly for the cost of one ticket. Although you’ll have to pay taxes and fees on the second ticket. Today we…
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In October 2016, Delta opened a new Sky Club in Terminal A of SeaTac International Airport to complement the existing, smaller Sky Club at the South Satellite terminal. Though normally an Alaska loyalist, I took advantage of a recent opportunity to fly Delta with the sole purpose of checking out the new SkyLounge. In short, Delta spent $24 million to construct one of the nicest domestic…
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In A Beginner’s Guide to Delta SkyMiles and Basics of Airline Miles Redeeming, we mentioned that Delta has the problem of Blackout Dates when exchanging airline partners: Delta chooses some of the dates and directly block them in its own system when searching and exchanging award ticket of air partners. So we have to understand clearly which days are Blackout dates,…
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Three Major Airlines: UA,AA,DL. The mile guides for the former two have been introduced before, where goes the indispensable DL? Today in this post, we will introduce the elementary mileage knowledge of Delta Air Lines (DL). The previously well-know SkyPesos, can we get rid of it now? 1. How to Earn Delta SkyMiles 1.1. Taking the flights Delta and UA are…
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