The Delta SkyClub located near gate A 17 is closed Sunday night, October 7, 2012. I approached the SkyClub and was greeted by a blue coat Delta employee. He mentioned the SkyClub was closed due to “equipment failure” but didn’t elaborate. Not sure what that means. I’ve never heard of an equipment failure at a…
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Delta 767 Old Style Business Seat And 777 Flight Tomorrow
An upgrade to Delta’s 767 Internationally configured Business Class looked good at 5 days before departure. Even though Platinum elite members clear upgrades 5 days in advance, Delta held about 20 Business Class seats back until the day of departure. The day of departure is when the upgrade occured. My first choice would have been…
Delta Offers Unlimited Bonus SkyMiles Through January 31, 2013
Delta is offering a promotion for unlimited bonus miles from October 1, 2012 through January 31, 2013. The offer provides an increasing amount of bonus miles depending on the amount of round-trip flights between U.S. and London Heathrow. Your bonus miles will be awarded for round-trip flights in paid BusinessElite® (J/C/D/I/S fare classes) and certain premium…
Upgrade This Week Delta International Business Class – Outlook Looks Good
Earlier this week, I blogged about snagging an International lie-flat Business Class seat on a domestic route with Delta’s 777. It turns out, the outlook is good for another international Business Class seat on a domestic route this week with Delta, only this time the flight is operated by an internationally configured 767. What do you…
Up To 5,000 Delta Miles Per Delta Round-Trip From FUK to HNL
Delta is offering 5,000 bonus miles for Business Elite and 2,500 bonus miles for coach travel from Fukuoka (FUK) to Honolulu (HNL). The promotional travel must be between September 10, 2012 and December 31, 2012 to qualify for the offer. How To Get Bonus Miles Enroll a new account through the Delta Promotional Fukuoka page…
Delta SkyClub Giving 10% SkyClub Fees To Breast Cancer Research
Delta is joining the fight against breast cancer with a 10% donation to breast cancer research for all SkyClub memberships purchased with promotion code BCR12. In addition, if you are purchasing a new membership, they also offer $50 off the enrollment fee. The offer expires on October 31, 2012. How To Register To Get $50…
Delta Debt Refinancing On Asia Pacific Routes
Reuters is reporting that Delta is refinance $1.7 billion in Senior Secured notes. The financing proceeds will refinance the airline’s credit facilities. The who’s who of bankers have been reported to be part of this deal including  Bank of America Barclays, BNP, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS. This debt is down…
Best Delta 777 Business Class Seat – For Infant In Arms
I realize there may be big disagreements with “the best seat” on Delta’s 777 in their lie-flat Business Class seats. We had some trouble selecting our seats for a four hour trip onboard Delta’s best plane, the Boeing 777 in their lie-flat Business Class seats. But the good news is that every seat was wide…
Two Airline Deals Ending This Week – 50% and 100% Bonus Mile Offers
US Airways is offering a 100% bonus on purchased miles through September 30, 2012. With this promotion, you can buy 100,000 US Airways miles, more than enough for a Business Class ticket to North Asia or just enough for one to Europe, for only $1,881.25. That is a deal if you plan to go to…
Flawless Flight Tonight Delta – Could It Have Been Any Better?
A usual business flight turned into an unexpected flawless flight tonight. When there are reports some airline pilots are deliberately finding issues to cause delay, it is nice to board a flight that leaves on time and you are provided flawless service throughout the duration of the flight. Tonight was a perfect example of a flawless…
Earn Triple Airline Miles With Marriott Stays
Marriott has teamed up with Delta and a number of other participating airlines to offer triple SkyMiles on all stays this fall. Register and stay at any participating Marriott hotel between July 1 and October 31, 2012 to earn triple Delta SkyMiles. You’ll start earning triple SkyMiles starting with your second stay during the qualifying…
What Is The Weirdest Checked Luggage You’ve Seen
Tonight, I saw the weirdest checked luggage I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen packed bags to the point they don’t look like bags anymore, packed things made to look like bags, garbage bags, and even checked coolers filled with who knows what. But when I looked out the window of my Boeing 737 tonight, this checked…
Plenty Of Availability to Hawaii in Delta Business / First Class at Middle Level
We’ve shared our success finding Business/First class tickets to Hawaii using SkyMiles. Although we found the award with Delta’s partner, Alaska Airlines, the option to use SkyMiles at the low award level (75,000 SkyMiles) for Business/First Class to Hawaii exists. Later in the week we found our attempts to add mainland U.S. segments to the…
New Delta Self Service Kiosk In Atlanta
Delta has done a great job with the new self service kiosks. I checked-in this week with the new kiosk version and was surprised with the new streamlined process. The new design, seen in picture below, is nice as well. The new kiosks have shortened the user experience by allowing the user to change only the items…
Broken – Delta And Alaska First Class Hawaii Award Ticket
I received some bad news about the First Class award ticket I booked to Hawaii this week with Alaska Airlines on Delta SkyMiles. My winning moment came when I booked a First Class award ticket to Hawaii on SkyMiles for only 75,000 SkyMiles round trip. This was booked at the Delta SkyMiles low level and…
Delta Showing Air France Business Class Availability After May
Earlier this week Gary from View from the Wing, and Lucky from One Mile At A Time, shared their concerns over Delta’s website not showing Air France availability in Business Class. It appears the availability is back up, at least post-May 2013, as I’m seeing plenty of availability across the board next summer. Air France…
Booked Delta First To Hawaii At 75k Level And New SoundTrack
One rule I have when booking an award ticket with Delta is to never give up. Don’t stop believing you can find an award at the low level. As a result of my booking approach, I believe the following song is a fitting soundtrack to this story of booking an award to Hawaii from Atlanta…
TSA Kicked Man Off Delta Flight For T-Shirt
This is one way to get kicked off a plane. Wear a t-shirt mocking TSA’s security theater. A doctoral student at Arizona State University was kicked off his Phoenix bound Delta flight at his departure gate in Buffalo, New York. “I politely explained that it was ‘mocking the security theater charade and over-reactions to terrorism…
Bidding For Delta’s Voluntary Denied Boarding Vouchers
Delta often compensates passengers for taking a later flight when the current flight is oversold. This is called a voluntary denied boarding situation. Delta has a pretty slick bidding process for customers that are willing to take a voluntary denied boarding voucher. It is automated and gives the passenger complete control over the bidding process.…
CitiBusiness AAdvantage Reconsideration Offer And SPG Amex Cancellation Approach
My wallet was getting full after adding a few new credit cards in August. So it was time for me to assess what was in my wallet and clean out cards that I was not using. My goal was to free up space in my wallet, reduce credit card annual fees and avoid canceling a…