Delta/Avis 5K offer!

From now through July 31st, earn 5K bonus Delta miles at participating Avis Airport Location for rental 2 days or longer up to 5 rentals. Use coupon code MUAA088

Detail can be found here

Delta Partner Activities Bonus Promotion is here again

you need to register here first btw April 22 and June 22, 2009, then complete partner activities to get up to 25K bonus

Unique Partner Activities Bonus Miles Awarded
4 4,000
6 6,000
8 8,000
15 15,000
25 25,000

I am planning to get 4 partners each for our accounts, they are

e-rewards transfer, online shopping, SPG transfer and dining.

easy miles

20% bonus for AMEX Membership reward transfer to Delta

From now to March 31st, transfer MR points to Delta and earn 20% bonus. You need to register here

Delta buy miles 100% bonus promotion is back

Buy Miles between February 15 and March 31, 2009, and we will give you a 100% mileage bonus with your transaction.

The link is here

Bonus from Delta Max Miles Promotion posted

I mentioned the promotion here last year and today all bonus miles posted correctly.

305,000 in total, not bad!!

You can now link your Delta and NWA account

You can link them from here and transfer miles btw accounts instantly, but do note that transfer miles btw accounts doesn't extend u miles expiration on Delta.

This is a indirect way to transfer ur Amex Membership points to Northwest

Membership Reward to Delta transfer 20% bonus

Register here, then transfer ur MR points to Delta before Feb 15th,2009 and earn 20% bonus miles.

Confirmed!!! No more free change on award ticket for Delta Platinum members

I posted few days ago about Northwest move on this benefit and expected Delta to match. Today, I saw this program update on delta.com.

"Effective March 1, 2009, the redeposit and reissue fee for Award Travel will no longer be waived for Platinum Medallion members in an effort to preserve award seat availability for all SkyMiles members. Platinum Medallions have conveyed that making as many awards seats available as possible is one of the most important SkyMiles benefits. Many of these award seat bookings are held until the last minute and never flown. As a result, other SkyMiles members are unable to secure those seats. As a reminder, Platinum Medallions are not charged an Award Ticket Fee for reservations ticketed less than three weeks before travel."

This is bad, very bad!!!Free change can save considerable amount of money for Platinum members.With this change, I would say Gold level with them is more than enough, give ur money to programs that still offer ree change benefit for their Top Elite member.

10000 Delta miles for Brink Home Security system

Installation fee $99 with free second keypad. You will get 10000 delta miles.


Here is detail.

Credit to"happydawn"

Some New Delta Offers

1. 2500 SkyMiles for Fiji Water order

Posted on slickdeals, Use code fijiblack for 40% off. Total $22.5

2 100% bonus for transfering miles is back

Got this offer in my email today, Delta is offering 100% bonus for buying miles btw Jan 1st-Jan 31st,2009.

3 Delta 2500 or 5000 bonus miles for Avis rental is back

Saw this on flyertalk, but I have not get email yet.

Here is the detail

• 2500 bonus miles valid on a qualifying rental of three consecutive days at participating Avis airport locations in the US and Canada. Please mention coupon number MUAA132 to receive bonus miles offer.
• 5000 bonus miles valid on a qualifying rental of four consecutive days or more at participating Avis airport locations in the US and Canada. Please mention coupon number MUAA133 to receive bonus miles offer.
• Bonus miles offer valid on all car groups.
• An advance 24-hour reservation is required.
• Offer may not be used with any other coupon, promotion or offer except your AWD discount.
• The savings of up to 25% applies to the time and mileage charges only.
• Taxes, concession recovery fees, vehicle license recovery fee, customer facility charges ($10/contract in CA) and fuel charges are extra.
• Optional items such as LDW ($35.99/day or less except in Louisiana $49.99/day) and other surcharges may apply and are extra.
• Offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion or offer.
• Offer is subject to vehicle availability at the time of rental and may not be available on some rates at some times, including some online rates at Avis.com.
• Car rental return restrictions may apply.
• Offer subject to change without notice.
• Holiday and other blackout periods may apply.
• Renter must meet Avis age, driver and credit requirements. Minimum rental age may vary by location. An additional daily surcharge may apply for renters under 25 years old.
• Frequent flyer surcharge of up to $0.50 USD per day, may apply.
• Rental must begin by June 30, 2009.

Will Delta charge $100 dollar award cancellation/change/redeposit fees to their Platinum Elites soon?

There is a discussion on Flyertalk about upcoming benefit change on Northwest airline Platinum Elite member. Effective March 1st, 2009, Platinum member need to pay $100 for award redeposit and reissue fees (formerly called change fees).

There is no announcement from Delta yet for this change, but Northwest will become Delta soon, so I am expecting Delta will have same change.

A big plus for being a top elite of each airline program is waiving those fees, if this benefit is eliminating, it will be a BIG disappointment for lots of people.

Northwest Award Redemption Level Changes effective Jan 15th

Soon in late 2009, NW and DL will become one airline and Worldperks program and miles will become Delta Skymiles. In February, member of both programs can transfer btw their accounts without charge. However, in order to avoid taking advantage of lower award redemption fee and miles requirement with Northwest, NWA increases award level and fees to match with Delta skymiles.

The problem is, new chart is no longer showing travel btw Non US zone. I don't know what is the effect on new Northwest intra Asia award and intra Africa award. Previously, they were 20K/30K and 25K/50K for economy and business. If the change is identical to Delta, then award will increase 25K/30K for Asia and 50K/80K for Africa. I think the only way to find out is call them after Jan 15th.

My marriott to Delta tranafer posted today

As I mentioned earlier, Delta said they will honor the bonus for MAX MILES promotion for whoever registered before Nov 21st. I transferred 235K Marriott points for 7 nights at Cat 1-5 hotels and 120K delta miles in addition to 40K SPG points.

The bonus will be posted 8-12 weeks after Dec 31st, so it is a waiting game now. Once all transfers and bonus posted, I will have close to 1 Million in my Delta and NW accounts. Enough for many trips abroad.

Skyrocket to Sextuple SkyMiles-Earn 6 times Delta miles per Hilton stay

you need to register first, then stay before Feb 29th. 2009, every stay must be two or more nights at participating Hilton Family hotels worldwide.

It is a Great promotion if you stay two nights per stay and NOT at Hampton INN properties or your stay is a very expensive, otherwise, stay with BMI miles would be a better option.

Delta Partner Activities Bonus Promotion Updates

Delta has canceled the promotion on Nov 21st, but according to this internal memo,

"Customer who enrolled prior to cancellation may still earn bonus as noted"

So if you registered before Nov 21st, you should be able to get bonus as long as you complete activities by Dec 31st. bonus will be awarded 8-10 weeks after Dec 31st.

There is no way to confirm with Delta whether u have registered or not, if you did, u should get those bonus.

I am going to re initiate my SPG and Marriott transfers this weekend.

Delta has changed all rental car promotions

Since I was not in States during past few months, I have not aware the changes. Today when I tried to book a rental car for my wife, I noticed all deals are dead! It's time to credit those miles back to VS

Wait on Delta Promotion!

Delta has pulled the promotion page, so there maybe some changes to T &C, don't transfer anything until the promotion link back up again.

I canceled my SPG points transfer because I don't have time to fight for my bonus.

Shame on Delta.

Some Updates on Delta Promotion

1 For SPG transfer, the best way is to transfer 20000 SPG to Delta per day
because DL system can not accept more than 32K Hotel transfer per
transaction, 20K SPG will get u 25K miles, which is the best value

2 AMEX credit card signup bonus may not count because those miles will be posted as Bonus.

3 AMEX MR transfer doesn't count

Delta Partner Activities Bonus Promotion

You need to register here, then complete partner activities for up to 150% bonus.

Base Miles Earned	Bonus	Total Miles
1,000-4,999	50%	1,500-7,498
5,000-9,999	100%	10,000-19,998
10,000 or more	150%	25,000 or more

I have Marriott travel package waiting to cash out 120K miles to AA, but with this promotion, I decide to transfer to Delta instead. I will get 300K miles for this transfer. Madagascar, here I come!!

A good news here on Delta Award

Delta has removed its award chart for Non us departure long time ago and imposed a new three tier award system few months ago. The good news is Intra Asia Business class award still remind at 30K as I checked yesterday from PEK-DPS, so still a great value for DL miles.


BTW, I am too busy right now, so not as many update as before. hope I can write more in few weeks.