Award Availability on Delta/Partners
The others make it plain easy.
United and AA have a functional award calendar. Their award calendars have a good number of their partners available through simple searches.
Remember that the key to a great award is flexibility.
Delta gives a plain shameful showing on the award front.
Let's look at a simple search from STL (where I am) to BOM (always wanted to visit India) in November or December...
United
Okay -since I'd like to travel in business or first class, I should select the 3rd, 11th, or many of those dates in January.
No availability on United metal - how about partners?
Looks like there are flights with a seat in both business and first class available! Great!
AA
Well, that was easy...
Delta
Let's search Delta now...
Okay - so that won't work. 60 days in either direction, and there's only one low award available outbound, and none on the return? So you mean to tell me that United and AA (the other two big US airlines) will just let me click a date and book my travel.
Okay - so how is it done? It takes patience, persistence, and lots of time. Is it worth it? Well, if you have a pile of skymiles and don't want to see them just sit and rot - then yes.
I'll post more on this tomorrow. Needless to say, there is a low of work that goes into it but we can make something out of it!
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