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Delta SkyMiles Overview

While Delta is often lauded for their flight performance and customer service, their loyalty program has long been the butt of jokes in the frequent flier community. Delta often charges far more miles for saver-level award flights than its direct competitors like AA or United.  Delta’s elite program used to trail the pack as well.

Read more about Delta SkyMiles in our Complete Guide here…

Here are some of the topics our guide covers:

You can also read our many posts about Delta below…

Shopping for Millions

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In January I reported my strategy to buy Delta Platinum status and a million miles.  The idea is to use gift card churning...

Loving Platinum

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Last year I signed up for the Delta Reserve credit card and went on my first ever pure mileage run in order to get...

Sears 10X

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UPDATE: THE 10X DEAL EXPIRED 3/19/2012 AT MIDNIGHT For quite a while, it used to be possible to earn 10 miles per dollar at...

Bears, cookies, and miles for Mothers Day

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FTD is currently running a promotion in which you can get 1500 Delta SkyMiles per order.  To get the deal, go to FTD via...

Trip Results Washington DC

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This past weekend I flew to Washington DC for the Star MegaDO Launch Party.  You can read about the party here and here.  I’m...

Mileage running, from home

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High level airline elite status comes with many valuable perks such as free domestic first class upgrades (when available), elite security lines, waived fees...

Buying Platinum and a million miles: 6 month update

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I’ve met only one out of two goals, but have managed to rake in over 1 million points and miles anyway…     In...

Where to?

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This weekend, long-held vacation plans were thrown out the window.  Not one, but two itineraries now compete to replace the original.  Months ago,...

Delta 40X: Leveraging the deal

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Last Friday, The Traveler’s Loophole reported “Earn 40 Delta Skymiles per dollar for Pet Supplies ~ Awesome Deal!”   Then, on Monday, Deal’s We Like...

Is the United card worth keeping?

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Every couple of weeks, I get an email like this one inviting me to earn up to 65K United Miles for signing up for...

Progress toward Delta Platinum

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This year, I'm continuing my quest to maintain Delta Platinum status without flying.  Here's my approach and how I'm doing so far… Delta has...

Delta vs. Cathay Pacific Business Class. Which is better?

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In the past few months I've had the pleasure of flying both Cathay Pacific and Delta international business class.  Which was better?  The answer...

Delta: two one-way awards for 12,500 miles

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Just when I thought I had mastered Delta award bookings, I stumbled upon something new.  Please accept my apologies in advance for the massive...

Delta SkyMiles: Value from domestic flights

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Delta SkyMiles are often referred to as "Sky Pesos" because low level (AKA saver level) awards are rarely available.  Delta advertises being able to...

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