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Hertz Offers Up To 3,400 Delta Miles Per Rental

Hertz and Delta have teamed up to offer up to 3,400 Delta SkyMiles with Hertz car rentals. How To Register For Promotion US – Provide discount CDP 165385, PC 170166 and your SkyMiles number Europe – Provide discount CDP 165385, PC 170424 and your SkyMiles number Promotion Details If you are a SkyMiles member, you…

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Coach Award To French Polynesia – After Only 6 Avis Car Rentals

This weekend we shared the fees for business class awards to French Polynesia using the Delta and Air France programs. In this post, we’ll share the coach award pricing, as well as a promotion to earn miles for a “free” ticket with only 6 car rentals. Delta requires 150,000 SkyMiles and Air France requires 120,000…

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Delta Flight Carrying 159 Passengers Makes Emergency Landing

An engine failure is a scary moment for passengers on any plane, especially when you are in flight. This weekend, Delta and 159 passengers encountered an engine failure mid-air during a flight departing Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson international airport en route to the Phoenix Sky Harbor international airport. Delta flight 2046 on Saturday, April 7 encountered engine…

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Business Class to French Polynesia – Fees On Delta vs Air France

One of our best dream award vacations was to French Polynesia. We were fortunate enough to use Delta SkyMiles to fly on Air France in business class. By using airline miles we took a trip to French Polynesia we would not otherwise have been able to afford. We experienced our first ever over water bungalows…

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Illustrating How Delta And Air France May Block Award Availability

For the past few weeks SkyMiles members have been loosing confidence in Delta’s shabby award booking engine. The ability to book Air France awards has been off, then on, and now appears to be on a route specific basis. Here are a few examples of where Delta is and is not showing Air France availability.…

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Delta Sends Clarification Regarding SkyMiles Purchase Bonus

It seems someone jumped the gun on the Delta promotion to purchase miles which was released to SkyMiles members earlier this week. The offer has been re-sent to “clarify” the terms of the promotion. Check out the latest email communication from Delta’s communication team below. Clarifying Message From Delta You recently received an email regarding…

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Delta Offers Up To 30,000 Bonus On Purchased SkyMiles (Targeted)

From now through April 30th, Delta is offering a 50% bonus on purchased SkyMiles. This offer may be targeted but if you are looking for extra SkyMiles to top off an award, this may be a good option. Bonus Offer For every 4,000 miles you buy, you’ll earn an additional 2,000 bonus miles You can…

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New International Terminal At Atlanta Almost Complete

The Atlanta Hartsfield Airport and Delta are gearing up for the opening of the new terminal on May 16, 2012. They’ve prepared a few videos to give passengers a feel for the new terminal. It looks like it will be a very nice terminal. Can’t wait to redeem my SkyPesos SkyMiles for an international redemption…

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Mrs Weekly Flyer’s Next Credit Card And Reasoning

Mrs Weekly Flyer takes a practical approach to selecting her credit cards. I on the other hand, focus on getting it in and keeping it in my wallet. She knows that credit card sign up bonuses play a big part in our ability to take dream vacations to places like the Seychelles, Paris, Mauritius, Bora Bora…

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Delta Gives $25 Gift Card + Double SkyBonus Points For 100 New Flights

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Delta is adding 100 new flights and 29 destinations out of their LGA hub. To celebrate the additional flights they are offering a $25 merchandise gift card and double Sky Bonus points on select routes. See Current Airline Credit Cards. Get Carded In New York For $25 Gift Card With 100 New Flights How To…

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This Airbus A’int Going + Jets Match Made In Heaven

The saying “If It A’int Boeing It A’int Going” held true in this situation. If It A’int Boeing It A’int Going Delta acquired Airbus planes in the Northwest acquisition and they run some of these planes on the reported worst flight in the USA. I’ve had the pleasure opportunity to experience the worst US route…

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Delta Sky Club March Tasting Events – EWR Today

Delta SkyClub has been hosting a series of Sky Club happy hours lately. Last week, they hosted an event at the JFK Sky Club and in the past they’ve hosted the Avion Tequila tasting event which was a hit. They even expanded the events to include the W Atlanta Downtown hotel tasting and NY trip give away. Today,…

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Delta, I’m Coming Home – ATL To LGA First Class Trip Report

Regular readers know I’m a long time Delta flyer that has recently attempted the unthinkable; a status challenge to American Airlines while living in a Delta hub city. This announcement was inevitable. I’m coming home Delta. At first, the American Airlines upgrade policy worked great (until I ran out of upgrade instruments), I really enjoyed the…

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Releasing My Returns – Points And Miles Game

Readers have called on me to release my returns for a while, so I’m releasing them just like Mitt Romney. But I’m not running for anything, except maybe just a mile or two. In an effort to provide transparency and allow readers to follow along as points and miles are earned, I’m releasing my points…

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News For Delta Frequent Flyers

Here are some interesting news stories for the Delta flyer. Delta increases traffic, improves operational performance, closes operations at an airport, and an A380 is coming to Atlanta. Don’t forget to enter our contest to win Drink certificates. You can enter the drink certificate give away by entering through the official entry post. February Traffic…

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