Delta SkyMiles doesn’t publish award charts for mileage redemptions. The price you see is the price you get. For the past few years, the general trend is that we've been seeing constant price increases for award tickets. As Delta tries to move SkyMiles more closely to a revenue based program, it's only logical that they'd…
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@ Lucky - Where have all the Aeroflot redemption's gone!!!? I would think they would have tons of capacity.
Not that I actually think you have that answer, but FYI, I don't see any long haul anywhere on the Calendar, just short haul.
170,000 miles for USA-Europe J class and 70,000 miles for USA-Europe Y class is not cheap like yesteryear. Before 50,000 mi or so (Y) and low 100's (J) was common. But thanks, Lucky, for the update.
To add insult to injury, LAX-JFK in Y can earn less than 1,000 miles. So Y class means 35 round trips. Before, it earned 5,000 miles, which would mean 10 round trips for a European Y award.
I may redeem in 2019. I wonder what the fuel surcharges are? All I know is BA is lousy for fuel surcharges even though fuel is relatively cheap now.
@ Rob - yeah I thought about that, but you can still get a paid fare. In fact a super cheap one, I saw economy (not for me of course!) for $550 RT.
Actually if you look out towards early 2019 the Wednesday flights seem to be 70k through Jan/Feb.
“...finally finding their devaluations are catching up with them?” <—This is something l’ve never understood. This may be an elementary question but how would a devaluation on partner awards hurt DL?
@DaKine I actually saw Aeroflot for LHR-JFK (July 6 overnight) when researching the post for STTP. Biz class SVO-JFK but economy on LHR-SVO. Obviously, the taxes/fees would be rough. SVO-JFK on July 7 doesn't show space though.
@Spencer Russia is hosting the World Cup around then, so could be lack of award space due to that. I'm flying IAD-SVO-IAD in June for that reason, and award space was pretty hard to come by when I booked months ago.
AJ, devaluations in this case is the opposite, that is Delta reducing the value of their miles, and more miles being needed for the same flights (something common to all airlines), which has largely been the case until the couple of recent price cuts reported here.
@Jim That would make sense. Admittedly, I wasn't focused on finding Aeroflot space, specifically, so I didn't check other dates.
Thanks @ Spencer. I do have a flight to SVO in prime world cup time on LOT. But other than that I see nothing. And by nothing I mean the real deal... JFK->SVO... SVO-> LAX. Nothing of any consequence.
Hopefully it is not the Russians giving up on us, but probably so. These greedy evil American imperialists only deserve so much respect. I was born here in the USA on 4th of July and have tried everything to stop them. At some point you just have to go out and enjoy the world...
@AJ obviously the specific data on this is held tightly, but in general airlines want partner redemptions to balance. If delta raises the cost too high and there are too few delta redemptions on other carriers, this will cause friction as the imbalances have to be settled in cash. I suspect one of the reasons AA prevents online ticketing for most partners is to keep things balanced.
Something else to consider is pushback from credit card companies -- they pay a lot for each mile they give customers. All evidence suggests that folks are not spending as much on airline credit cards as the value of such miles has fallen.