I transferred the last of my membership reward points to delta a while ago in anticipation of purchasing delta award tickets on china airlines for my parents. Members can make changes to an award ticket up to 72 hours prior to the original departure time outbound or return. Plus, you can always buy more, gift or transfer them, or even donate your miles to a cause you care about. Airline policy on using miles for someone elses reward seat. If youre unable to travel, you must notify us before the flight departs.
You can also use milesaaver awards for fewer miles. What no one else will tell you about booking delta awards. If i book a ticket for someone else using my points that follows through to the ticket. Delta no longer publishes an award chart, making it difficult to know if you are paying the lowest price.
Some of my favorite awards have been the ones i booked for other people, like taking my mom to easter island a few years ago, or treating my dad to a vip experience at a knicks game with starpoints last year. Current mosaics can gift mosaic status to one person of their choosing via this nomination form to be filled out by june 1, 2020. As the official facebook community of awardwallet, award travel 101 is here to help you travel regardless. Your amex delta card must be linked to your frequent flyer number for pay with miles to appear as a booking option. How to get and use the delta companion certificate 2020. An excellent tool to use when searching for award travel is expert flyer, which allows you to both search award space and set up an email alert when an award seat on your preferred date and flight opens up. Air travel delta skymiles award travel i thought some of you might be interested in my experience with getting award tickets to europe. Delta offers more ways to redeem frequent flyer miles than any other airline including airline tickets, mileage upgrades, car rentals, hotel stays, delta sky club. Some of the other best credit cards to purchase airfare with because they. With some airlines, booking award travel can be extremely difficult even when the award seats are available. The fee is waived for diamond and platinum medallion members, provided the member makes changes at least 72 hours prior to the. Someone finally released deltas full award chart frugal. For example, delta charges 1 cent to transfer skymiles to its partners, and an.
This perk allows you to essentially get a 2for1 deal on a plane ticket. You can book award travel for yourself or for someone else. You dont have to wait for your next flight to earn the miles you need now. On american airlines, be prepared to redeem 62,500 for a similar flight. Rules on booking award flights for other people awardwallet blog. Travel is free has developed a new tool and an award chart that top everything else out there. You can book award travel for yourself or for someone else even if youre not flying with them. Delta award tickets, for example, can be booked for anyone, not just the account holder. Additionally, there are no power outage dates on any delta air lines flight.
A good award booking service will do the hard work for you even if it means calling an airline a dozen times until they find someone who knows how to. Please excuse me for my ignorance, and please let me know if ive posted to the wrong place and where the right place is. This will save you time from checking websites and calling airline reservations numbers constantly. Delta skymiles award travel fodors travel talk forums. The ability to book oneway awards was also a major long overdue enhancement. Youve got flexibility with your miles with the ability to book award travel for yourself or for someone else even if youre not flying with them. The exception is vouchers issued to people who volunteer to get bumped, which are valid for one year. Can i use my frequent flier miles to buy a ticket for someone else. Good for travel in the united states excluding hawaii and canada. The majority of these airlines can be found on the delta air lines website even if you plan to book the award elsewhere using another programs miles. Using frequent flier miles to buy someone elses ticket is easy, in most cases. Some vacation types are not available to book online. Find out how to redeem your points and miles to book travel for other people.
Using points and miles to book award travel for others. Learn how you can use your miles to buy someone elses ticket. The earlier you book, the better your chances of getting one of these award tickets and getting a better rate. As a diamond i can cancel up to 72 hours with no penalty. Nominee will have mosaic status from june 15, 2020june 15, 2021, and will have the same perks except for earning the bonus 15,000 trueblue points. Maybe if you happened to have the same first initial you could book it that way, but probably not worth the risk of delta getting upset or tsa going wacky with a name on the ticket not matching the id. But it may help to give the passenger a letter acknowledging that you used miles from your frequent flyer account to book the trip and a copy of the credit card just in case. If you book through the chase ultimate rewards earning portal and.
Now, if you find a decent award seat, you can book one leg of your trip with skymiles and another with cash or miles from another program. I used miles, she paid for her ticket, then we linked so theyd know we were a travelling party, and not to be separated. Skybonus certificate usca first class excludes transcontinental flights 250,000. Delta air lines skymiles best way to book award ticket for someone else. Mqms can be kept by the basic card member or gifted to someone else. Can i use pay with miles to book a ticket for someone else. Click the tab on the airline website designated for booking award travel. Conclusion on american airlines rewards for someone else yes, you can use your american airlines aadvantage miles to book tickets for other. You choose from over 300 destinations worldwide to find a flight that fits your schedule. Why not transfer miles to someone else to book an award. Can i book web special award travel for an unaccompanied minor. It is always available as a payment option on all delta operated flights as long as you have 5,000 miles in your skymiles account. If you want to book delta award travel, you are essentially going in blind, with no way of knowing what the baseline is for the lowest saverlevel award price to any given destination. The content on this page is accurate as of the posting date.
Are you booking one flight for 2 people, or two flights for one person i have linked a purchased flight and a sky miles flight when i was travelling with someone else. Book award travel in premium economy using our new desktop award booking search. In my experience, most us airlines dont require you to show the credit card at checkin if you book an award for someone else. The workaround you can book an award for anyone you want. But some skymiles members have put that frustration to good use. Some of the most valuable awards are the ones you dont take yourself. If you have found a delta or partner award at a low mileage level, but adding travel to your gateway city radically increases the price, it might be worth simply buying a ticket or redeeming an award with another carrier to position yourself for your delta award, while allowing plenty of connection time to account for possible delays and. Then delta raised the miles required for tickets on skyteam partners to asia, and it will require 15,000 miles more per roundtrip. Learn more about ways to redeem miles for an award ticket.
You can access deltas full award chart that drew put together here. Delta left frequent fliers fairly frustrated when it eliminated its awards chart several years ago. So, when you purchase 1 ticket, you can use the delta companion certificate to purchase a second ticket and you only have to pay the taxes and fees on that second ticket. When booking for another person, log onto your account and start the same. Delta award tickets, for example, allow you to book for anyone online. Using frequent flier miles to buy someone else s ticket is easy, in most cases. And there are no blackout dates on any delta air lines flight. Delta eliminates award redemption fees for frequent flyers. To use pay with miles, you must book on the delta website. Pay with miles is a benefit of select delta amex cards where you can use miles to pay for all or part of the cost of eligible flights.
If your plans include any of the following scenarios or other special needs, please contact your travel agent or call us at 1. How to use delta pay with miles million mile secrets. First, travel is free released a comprehensive skymiles award chart. Delta first waived change fees on international itineraries march 2 since monday, delta air lines has been waiving change fees for international itineraries purchased between march 1 and march 31, 2020. Remember that my award maximizer tool can help you compare award prices for the same flights when booked with different loyalty programs. Search for a delta flight roundtrip, multicity or more. Their plans changed so i didnt end up buying the tickets. Use your miles to book flight awards with hawaiian airlines and much more. Most programs do have a way that someone else can gift the miles to your account from theirs usually for a fee or use their miles to get award travel in your name. The delta companion certificate is a great perk that comes with select delta credit cards. American aadvantage cheat sheet for using miles comparecards. Youre getting nervous because its 3060 days before the trip. Spirits future travel vouchers are only applied to the flight portion of base fare, excluding carrier fees, and must be used to book a flight within 60 days of issuance. You can use your airline miles to book flights for anyone.
Award travel 101 is a facebook community focused on a single goal. The best way to book an award travel flight on american airlines is by putting the flight on hold and then coming back to book it later. This content can be expanded yes, miles can be redeemed for web special awards for an unaccompanied minor traveling within the u. The full award chart shows the lowest prices available for.
Card members are only eligible to receive one annual bonus per threshold per calendar year for each type of eligible delta skymiles card e. For example, if you hold the chase sapphire preferred card, you can redeem ultimate rewards points for flights via the chase travel portal at a rate. How to search for award travel on the delta air lines website. All taxes and fees associated with that ticket will apply. Ive a friend who would like me to transfer my delta.
Only delta and delta connectionoperated flights are eligible not partner flights. Ill also give credit where its due by admitting that delta s new award search engine is substantially better than before. The passenger name must match the name on the ff account to get the miles. How to get the most out of your frontier miles comparecards. The unofficial delta skymiles award chart for flights. And if you need to cancel or change the ticket the rules will follow your status, not the ticketed passenger. Achieving top value with delta skymiles can be tough. Our airline partners can get you to all the places you want to go and give you more travel options with hawaiianmiles. Please refer to the guidelines below while booking.
Delta expands change fee waiver to all flights one mile. Delta air lines award flights on the same route range from a low of 38,500 to a high of 67,000 miles. Please visit our airline partners section and check your preferred airline for contact information. Mqm gift recipients must have a valid skymiles account. Get skymiles for purchasing a ticket for someone else. Check deltas website and i think youll find that information. Learn to unlock the power of credit card, hotel, and airline miles and points to travel the world on any budget. At this level, your choice of benefits includes a delta skyclub membership, global or regional upgrade certificates, gold medallion status for someone else, or 25,000 bonus miles.