Grabbing the Delta SkyMiles Greased Pig at Last with Up to 10,800% New Availability of Discount Tickets (Dream & Book Now, Travel Later – Risk Free)
Get while the getting is up to 480,000 fewer miles on Premium Flights for travel later in 2020 and into 2021
This month we’re covering the big three U.S. airlines and their currently unprecedented discount mileage ticket availability. For American Airlines, go here. For United, go here. For Delta, stay right here.
In the past, Delta has been mean and miserly when it came to confirmable availability of discounted SkyMiles Business Class redemptions, almost without exception.
In FCF’s recent subscriber survey, one contributor put it succinctly:
“Trying to use Delta SkyMiles is like grabbing a greased pig. The harder you try to hold on, the slipperier it gets.”
Well put!
But here’s the thing: That pig isn’t so slippery right now. If you’re a Delta SkyMiles member (or Amex points collector), now you can use miles for low-cost saver Business Class seats. If you’re used to paying 300,000+ miles and think that’s not too bad, you’re now able to get huge discounts. Such is the unparalleled nature of travel at the moment. And by the way, this isn’t just for travel this summer, but flights through the end of 2020 and into 2021.
While availability isn’t necessarily great across the board, intermittently the availability is unprecedented. You still have to know where to look.
The good news is that we’ve done that heavy lifting for you as our team has conducted hundreds of hours of research this month. Here are specific treasure maps to the best of the best we found…
Delta-portunity #1: Israel
Last year, our research didn’t find one day all year that discount awards were available to Tel Aviv. Now, we’re seeing 109 days of the year you can book Delta Business Class round-trip from New York to Tel Aviv, saving you up to 350,000 miles!
You’ll remember that scene in “Singin’ in the Rain” when Gene Kelly is, er, singing and dancing in the rain. Well, this current situation is actually a downpour as you can see. After a long drought of Delta low-cost award space, we’re finding a deluge of availability, even if we don’t exactly feel like singing and dancing right now.
We have never seen such a large amount of low-cost award space on Delta, and this isn’t just for one month. FCF’s research shows space from September 2020 through February 2021. Let’s dive into a few more examples.
Delta-portunity #2: Germany
We found outrageously great Delta SkyMiles discount Business Class availability to Frankfurt for travel later this year and into 2021.
For up to four travelers (and possibly more), FCF’s research team discovered an opportunity to save up to 480,000 / 75% Delta SkyMiles when compared to normal/everyday prices traveling to/from the U.S.
But wait, not only did FCF find unprecedented mileage award space to Frankfurt, we also found it to Berlin and Dusseldorf, with savings of up to 480,000 / 75%. That’s right, Germanophiles, Germany is so hot right now when it comes to using your Delta miles or Amex points. Danke.
Delta-portunity 3: Zurich
Unprecedented Delta SkyMiles Business Class availability unearthed for travel later this year and into 2021. For up to four travelers (and possibly more), you can save up to 480,000 / 75% miles to Zurich when compared to normal/everyday prices traveling to/from the U.S.
Delta-portunity #4: Amsterdam
Here comes that word again: Unprecedented Delta SkyMiles Business Class deals from Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, or New York for travel later this year to Amsterdam. It’s for up to four travelers, with savings of up to 480,000 / 75% miles.
All of this comes as very welcome news to Delta’s huge member base, which has been traditionally starved of opportunity.
Delta-portunity #5: Paris
And there’s more. Delta Airlines Business Class from Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, or Seattle to Paris, with four seats available, for travel from September to February with savings of up to 480,000 / 75% miles.
Don’t See Your home airport Mentioned?
Connecting flights to the Delta hub cities in this report are free in most cases with Delta because its mileage plan is zone-based. Here’s an example.
Boston to Amsterdam in Business Class on Delta costs 160,000 miles round-trip. But if you live in Chicago, you can add a flight to Boston to hook up with that deal (or your departure city) for no additional miles so long as it’s available.
For details on getting free connecting flights to hub cities with the great availability, go here and here.
If You Don’t Have Delta SkyMiles,
but Do Have Credit Card Points
(Plus how to save even more depending on your travel dates)
American Express, Chase, Citi, and Marriott have a points-to-miles transfer partnership with Virgin Atlantic—a Delta flights redemption partner—although nowadays Virgin’s availability of Delta flights is often less than Delta’s. If you can find availability through Virgin, you can pay just 100,000 miles round-trip to Europe and 120,000 miles to Tel Aviv for the same Delta flights.
Attention Opportunists and Delta Loyalists
While we’re all socially distancing ourselves, we can still look ahead to happy days of travel in our future. Your computer or smartphone is your window to the world. Do some research, do some planning, do some dreaming, and now more than ever before, do some booking! We’ll get through this together, even while we’re apart.