Fly to or from New York for as few as 11,000 Delta miles roundtrip in coach.
That is the gist of Delta flash sale on SkyMiles award travel. It is a flash sale. As in: Novel by 11:59 p.m. ET on October 12.
Offer Details
Through October 12, SkyMiles members may reserve roundtrip coach award tickets to New York for as few as 11,000 milesper hour
Traveling at the discounted rates must occur between November 1 and December 14.
Discounted rates aren’t available for travel on these dates: November 17-19, 21-22, 26-28.
Offer or No Deal
Delta no longer publishes award charts, so there’s absolutely no standard against which to gauge the rates that are discounted. However, roundtrip coach award flights are generally priced approximately 25,000 or more miles. So the discounts could be considerable.
More commonly, the very fact that Delta is currently discounting award travel is a positive for SkyMiles members. Even though it may leave them wondering which are the “normal” costs: the discounted prices, or the non-discounted prices. With the prospect of award sales it surely makes ponying up the award cost seem like an extravagance.
The snooze-you-lose booking imperative is a negative as is the case with flash revenue.
Still, worth a look when you’ve got Delta miles in hand and plan (or could program) a visit to the Big Apple in the forthcoming months.