That’s what I’m talking about, I used one of those award travel booking service guys, it was $125, I think the second ticket is $50, and I didn’t have to go scrounging around for it. I think some of these guys have software written to do the scrounging for them.

Well ? ? ?

What about flying KE to Kuala ?

Two ways I found out: 1) Delta sent me an e-mail about the award sale. Make sure you have “opted-in” to their e-mail offers on your SkyMiles profile. This will also help you score the occasional way-better-than-normal targeted Amex credit card offer. 2) The Frequent Miler (FM) blog actually alerted me to the fact that there were expanded “low” seats showing from hubs during the sale, which is very un-Delta like. If I hadn’t read his blog that morning, I would have never checked availability. I’ve been so used to finding nothing with DL that I simply quit looking…it was just easier to use miles that I had in other programs to accomplish my travel goals.

I don’t have that many hours left in me to mess in diz thind called award search engine 🙂

Operations: no delays, clean planes, good service, and a whole bunch of other airline metrics. I think it is over rated because the other suck so so bad.

The DL “sale”: was blogged about in other blogs. I thought about linking to it here but I thought it was another deceitful move to trick their customers 🙂

I think DL is over rated about their “operations” and comparing them to the hotel chains you state is waaaaay too kind!

Good for you. Mrs. TBB managed to burn 220k DL miles so we are getting there as well…slowly.

Actually, Mrs. TBB came through, story at 11…eer, I mean in the new TBB post.

Apparently, Korean Air using Skymiles book without a hitch online.

I think the DL “operational” successes are way over rated 🙂