The airlines are starting to get desperate faster than I would have thought. Delta announced a double MQM promo for flights booked by April 30 on delta.com for travel until June 30. If Delta actually had award inventory I’d consider going for Platinum with them, but it’s just not worth it for their lousy award availability. You can find the full details here.
Thanks to Peter for the tip.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Delta
Maybe UA will follow?
Hehe, I’m sure we’ll see some nice promos this year, but I’m guessing we will also see the return of DEQM in Q4, although I wont really need it this year.
I don’t know for sure yet if I will need DEQM. But if I knew for sure it would come, I could turn some planned revenue flights into award flights.
Of course, there is no snowball’s chance that UA would ever help us plan this way
But yeah, given the way the economy is going, I would expect 2008 to be a better year for promotions than 2007.
is there any data or report that shows the availability of award travel on the different airlines? I think that report will be powerful and it will drive airlies to compete for loyalty through greater availability! how can we start one ?
Well in general each alliance releases a certain amount of availability to the members in the alliance. OneWorld and Star Alliance usually have better availability, with Skyteam trailing way behind. Certain airlines in the alliances might not allow certain awards, like UA doing Starnet blocking or AA not allowing awards from the US to Europe on BA, but that’s it in a jist.
Any specific airlines you’re referring to? I’d be happy to compare them based on my experiences.
Thanks for reading!