As reported by Gary, Delta has added the functionality of searching for Virgin Australia award space to their website. Now if you use the delta.com award tool and there’s Virgin Australia award space, it will automatically show up when doing a search.
Continue reading: Delta.com now displaying Virgin Australia award space (and some other observations)
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do you know which airline has coach awards to australia with the lowest taxes and fuel surcharges?
oooh, it's only $196 if you start in canada instead. i'd happily spend 9k avois to get to yyz and save $600. that's a value of 6.5¢ per mile!
Probably the only time that this is the reverse.. Gotta balance for when your revenue fares start at about $1000 r/trip and we have to often pay double that!
@emily- On Delta for 100k miles and $119.50, you can fly coach non-stop between LAX and SYD.
I'm seeing availability on VA in business in late August. Is this phantom availability??
Ben- Why has Virgin Aus bus class availability between the U.S. and Australia suddenly dried up? I thought this was one of the easiest awards to get? I bought a ton of Delta miles using that transfer miles promotion with a 100% bonus (working out to 1.1 cents per mile)in the hopes of booking on Virgin Aus in bus class to Australia! I now have 450,000 Skypesos!
@John- Hope the availability opens back up so you can fly Virgin Australia. However if all else fails and you must fly Delta, the seat on their 777-200LR, isn't bad imo. It's definitely better than flying anyone's coach, and it is a fully flat seat, so no sliding down to the bottom. :-p
@ emily -- Both United and Qantas have decent award availability in coach without fuel surcharges if booking through United and American, respectively. And VERY nice find!
@ JohnnieD -- If you see it that's great, it's probably not phantom availability. There's definitely some space out there, just not a whole lot.
@ John -- Well I think they realized they were being too generous with award space, and that they could make more money exploring other revenue management techniques.
What hope does a Canadian have of finding space down to LAX on Delta at the low level though? 🙂
@lucky, I thought Delta charges a foreign origination fee of $250 when you DL award itinerary begins outside the U.S. In your screenshot, it does seem to be the case.
@ Mike -- They impose fuel surcharges for all redemptions originating in Europe, but other than that just impose fuel surcharges for some non-SkyTeam partner airlines. Where do you see the foreign origination fee reflected?
@ Jm -- I'm not really seeing any space through Virgin Australia's website either...