Wringing value from Delta SkyMiles | Ep213 | 7-29-23
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If you're flush with Delta SkyMiles, don't flush them on poor redemptions -- instead, listen to this week's show and learn how you can squeeze good value out of your SkyMiles. One quick update: During our Award Talk segment, we discussed the ability to book Starlux via Alaska Airlines, but that availability and pricing got pulled between the time we recorded and the time we published -- we were right that you had to jump on it quickly, but it died even faster than we expected.
00:00 Intro
00:56 Award Talk
01:07 Bilt: 75% to 150% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-august-rent-day-up-to-150-transfer-bonus-to-virgin-atlantic/
07:31 Now book ITA via Virgin Atlantic
https://frequentmiler.com/ita-airways-bookable-with-virgin-atlantic-miles/
10:17 Alaska makes Starlux bookable*** Note that we discuss pricing for this award that Alaska has already pulled. See our post for more:
https://frequentmiler.com/alaska-airlines-fumbles-launch-of-starlux-awards/
12:59 Amex adds Qatar as a transfer partner
https://frequentmiler.com/amex-transfer-partners/
15:44 Aeroplan now allows awards to be changed online
https://frequentmiler.com/aeroplan-awards-can-now-be-changed-online/
17:27 Choice and Radisson finally merge
https://frequentmiler.com/radisson-to-choice-conversion-low-end-slight-deval-high-end-better-value/
21:47 Card Talk: Delta Gold SkyMiles and Delta Gold SkyMiles Business cards
https://frequentmiler.com/dlgold/
https://frequentmiler.com/dlgoldbiz/
28:34 Main Event: Wringing value from Delta SkyMiles
29:46 15% discount on Delta awards on Delta metal with several credit cards
30:17 Compare against the round trip prices
31:05 Unannounced sales
https://frequentmiler.com/delta-award-sale-40k-miles-in-economy-to-australia-and-more/
33:50 Westjet to Canada
36:18 Book awards that don't start or end in the US or Canada
https://frequentmiler.com/delta-skymiles-business-class-deals/
41:35 Finding partner award space on Delta.com
https://frequentmiler.com/a-great-new-way-to-find-delta-partner-award-availability/
46:29 Question of the Week: What's the best strategy to get rebooked when your partner award gets cancelled?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, ringing value from Delta Sky Miles. |
| 0:31.6 | Are we sure that's possible to do? |
| 0:34.6 | We're sure that it's... |
| 0:35.6 | You must be talking about poor value. I'm not. I'm talking about |
| 0:39.8 | getting real value from Delta Sky Miles. And yes, it is possible. Is it easy? Maybe. It depends on how |
| 0:48.9 | you go about it. So we will get into that for the main event. Normally, I say first, it's time for giant mailbag. |
| 0:56.6 | But today we're actually skipping the mailbag. |
| 0:59.0 | We're skipping what crazy thing? |
| 1:01.2 | We're skipping mattress running the numbers. |
| 1:03.9 | Why? |
| 1:04.8 | Because we've got like a dozen award talk segments to go through. |
| 1:10.8 | And we need to save some time for all that. |
| 1:14.0 | We sure do because this week we've got something really big. And I say that because if you've |
| 1:21.3 | been collecting built rewards points, Bill, my goodness, on the first of the month for rent day, |
| 1:26.9 | has coming up here a big, big transfer |
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