March 23, 2010

Delta Miles Block KE award redemption for most time of the year now!

My friend just made a discovery. KE award ticket always has blackout date,but by geographic area

2010
From USA and CANADA
MAY 22 – JUL 11, DEC 11 – DEC 26

From Korea, Japan, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Middle East to USA, CANADA,
BRAZIL
JUL 24 – SEP 05, SEP 17 – SEP 20

International flights from Korea, Japan, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Middle
East
Jul 16 – AUG 15, SEP 17 – SEP 26, DEC 24 – DEC 31

DOMESTIC KOREA
JUL 16 – AUG 22, SEP 18 – SEP 26, DEC 30 – DEC 31

However, what Delta did is they block ALL award redemption on KE during blackout period regardless of Geographic region. Basically that means SEP 18 – SEP 26 is blackout date for Domestic Korea, but with DL miles, all KE award to anywhere will be blocked

Korean Air
2010
MAY 22 – JUL 11
JUL 16 – SEP 05
SEP 17 – SEP 26
DEC 11 – DEC 31

2011
JAN 01 – JAN 09
FEB 01 – FEB 07
MAY 20 – JUL 03
JUL 13 – AUG 15
SEP 10 – SEP 14
DEC 09 – DEC 31

No wonder people complain about DL miles=useless

Posted by Troy under Delta | 7 Comments to Read

  1. flyertea said,

    I guess year round blackout dates also apply to CI and MU

  2. aj said,

    Let’s get something straight, KE is blocking the award seats, not DL.

  3. Troy said,

    KE is blocking award seats to certain region for certain period of the year, but during the same period, DL blocks KE award to all regions.

  4. Xavier said,

    DL = useless miles….
    so true! Even my friend, whose dad is a first officer for Delta, doesn’t recommend its FFP (to others).

  5. My ultimate DL award redemption at 120K business to Asia(Adding MU flights) - TMtravelworld said,

    [...] able to confirmed the flight, but unable to issue the ticket, she told me the reason, and confirmed what I have said 2 months ago, Delta block ALL award redemption on KE during blackout period regardless of Geographic [...]

  6. 垃圾达美里程使用手册（亚洲篇） - 和乐飞游 said,

    [...] 首先，我再说一下大韩，大家可能都知道，大韩是有Blackout日子的，但是它的blackout日子是按照区域分的，请看这里， 而达美这边为了达到逼着你以高价换达美自己的飞机，只要是大韩的blackout日子，所有的大韩飞机都不能兑换。现在达美的系统已经可以强制实施这项了，只要是大韩的blackout,有大韩飞机的票就出现错误提示，出不了票。 [...]

  7. My ultimate DL award redemption at 120K business to Asia(rebuilding my ultimate trip) - TMtravelworld said,

    [...] thing, you can use MU flights too, but as I mentioned before on DL blackout date definition on KE, same rules apply to [...]

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