I've been stocking up on Delta SkyMiles over the last year given increased sign-up bonuses from Delta American Express co-brand cards. Between Emily and I, we were approved for 6 cards last year netting a total of 380,000 SkyMiles from sign-up bonuses alone. Add in a bit of flying and minimum spend on the cards and we currently have 410,000 SkyMiles.
Delta doesn't publish an award chart which is super annoying. But I found their online search engine to be quite intuitive and actually pretty easy to find the "cheapest" award ticket.
As I eluded to last week, I'm headed to Seoul later this year for a long weekend solo. I wanted to use some of my Delta SkyMiles stash so begin looking for options.
Delta options to Seoul |
I ended up spending 210,000 SkyMiles for a bit more comfort. That's a ride on the upper deck of Delta's soon to be retired 747 to Seoul. On the way back, Skyteam partner Korean Air's 777-300ER new business class prestige suites which even in a 2-2-2 layout offer everyone direct aisle access.
Korean Air new business class |