Without any notice or warning, Delta increased the pricing on several awards without any notice to the public. Delta prices their awards in "low", "medium", and "high" pricing categories, with the "high" awards costing the most miles. Luckily "low" award pricing is unaffected, but the decision to do this without notice is really rankling the frequent flyer community.
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Delta attempted to engender some goodwill by also secretly dropping the price of "High" level business class seats from the U.S. to Southeast Asia from 370,000 Skymiles to 350,000 Skymiles. Unfortunately, that's like offering a 2% discount on a Ferrari. No one I know is crazy enough to cough up that many miles for an award ticket anyways.
UPDATE: I couldn't make this story up. When queried about why the award chart changes were made without an announcement, a Delta spokesperson posted this response on Flyertalk, the frequent flyer community message board:
"It works like a pricing change, so legally, we're not allowed to notify folks in advance."
If that statement didn't make you roll your eyes, what's it going to take? I can't think of another frequent flyer program that doesn't properly communicate changes, for better or worse, in advance to its members. Even a week's heads up would be better than this!
Bottom line, the value of Delta Skymiles is devalued even more than it already was. Awards are expensive, hard to come by, and the precedent of sudden award pricing increases makes them a dangerous currency to hoard.
Until tomorrow, everyone!
-Charm City Traveler
UPDATE: I couldn't make this story up. When queried about why the award chart changes were made without an announcement, a Delta spokesperson posted this response on Flyertalk, the frequent flyer community message board:
"It works like a pricing change, so legally, we're not allowed to notify folks in advance."
If that statement didn't make you roll your eyes, what's it going to take? I can't think of another frequent flyer program that doesn't properly communicate changes, for better or worse, in advance to its members. Even a week's heads up would be better than this!
Bottom line, the value of Delta Skymiles is devalued even more than it already was. Awards are expensive, hard to come by, and the precedent of sudden award pricing increases makes them a dangerous currency to hoard.
Until tomorrow, everyone!
-Charm City Traveler
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