Delta SkyMiles®Gold Card from American Express Review 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 80k. Expires on 2024.10.23. Expired now. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is 65k. Expires on 2024.7.17. Expired now. 2024.2 Update: The new offer is 70k, and there are a few changes to this card: Annual fee is increased from $99 to $150. Delta Flight Credit increased from…
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Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Card from American Express Review 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 90k. Expires on 2024.10.23. Expired now. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is 85k. Expires on 2024.7.17. Expired now. 2024.2 Update: The new offer is 90k, and there are a few changes to this card: Annual fee is increased from $250 to $350. New benefit: $10 Resy…
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Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Card from American Express Review 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 100k. Expires on 2024.10.23. Expired now. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is 95k. Expires on 2024.7.17. Expired now. 2024.2 Update: The new offer is 100k, and there are a few changes to this card: Annual fee is increased from $550 to $650. New benefit: $20 Resy…
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Delta SkyMiles® Gold Business American Express Card Review 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 90k. Expires on 2024.10.23. Expired now. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is 75k. Expires on 2024.7.17. Expired now. 2024.2 Update: The new offer is 80k, and there are a few changes to this card: Annual fee is increased from $99 to $150. Delta Flight Credit increased…
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Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Business American Express Card Review 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 100k. Expires on 2024.10.23. Expired now. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is 95k. Expires on 2024.7.17. Expired now. 2024.2 Update: The new offer is 90k, and there are a few changes to this card: Annual fee is increased from $250 to $350. New benefit: $10 Resy…
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Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card Review 2024.9 Update: The new offer is 110k. Expires on 2024.10.23. Expired now. 2024.6 Update: The new offer is 110k. Expires on 2024.7.17. Expired now. 2024.2 Update: The new offer is 110k, and there are a few changes to this card: Annual fee is increased from $550 to $650. New benefit: $20 Resy…
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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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