@SouthJamaica wrote:
@K-in-Boston wrote:@wasCB14 as your question is directly related to a credit card perk, I went ahead and moved it to the Credit Cards subforum.
There is no need for award availability for the Companion Ticket. The certificate can be used on any booking within the lower 48 states (the criteria is different for those who live in HI, AK, PR, and USVI) that has 2 Main Cabin tickets available with L, U, X, T, or V fares. Those are the lower discounted economy fares (not basic economy, but just the 5 cheapest rates of numerous economy fare classes) and you should have no problems finding tickets in those classes as long as you're booking out at least a month, although you may run into issues for say a holiday weekend or a school vacation week where those fares will sell months ahead.
I just selected random dates from ONT to LGA. Below you can see that the cheapest Main Cabin tickets for the first three flight options are in V, L, and K fares. If you were booking with a Companion Certificate, you would be able to choose the V or L fares, but not the third flight shown as the cheapest fare still available is K. While it can be frustrating booking close-in because higher fares are not available, keep in mind that many other airlines that issues certfiicates like this through loyalty or credit cards will require higher fare classes like Y, where it would be far less expensive to grab two X fares for example than it would to get buy one get one free on a Y fare.
You are truly amazing @K-in-Boston I can't imagine how you keep that kind of information in your head.
Don't ask me what I had for breakfast or to tell you how old I am without doing math to subtract my birth year from the current year and then decide if I had a birthday this year or not. But Delta fare rules? Yeah, I can recite those no problem. 😂
Also, that last paragraph where I wrote "While it can be frustrating booking close-in because higher fares are not available" should been lower fares, not higher fares. Brain remembers how to calculate MQMs and MQDs from partner flights, but not how to proofread!
@Anonymous wrote:April is after Easter and weekdays. July is after the week of the 4th. We are trying for DTW-MCO, but I have checked lots of airports in FL. The card is Platinum.
Is that week in April a school vacation week in Michigan? There's a lot of pent-up Disney demand, so I can certainly see MCO and likely TPA as an alternate being booked heavily already especially since you are going out of a major hub. I just used Monday departure and Friday return as examples for DTW-MCO and the week after Easter, there was a T fare to Orlando, but looks like flights are pretty packed on the way back (mostly B and Y fares which are very pricy) so the issue there was no eligible fares on the return. For the week after Independence Day, I did see some T and U fares sandwiched in between the $1000+ higher fares that would be eligible.
While not ideal, if you are really stuck and can't find flights that work for you, one possibility is to use the certificate on a one-way eligible fare. Obviously you want to get the best value you can, but even if you can only find a flight like the aforementioned one where only one direction had a T fare, you might at least recoup the cost of the annual fee if you have no other travel planned before it expires.
If you're feeling adventurous you could also try the ITA software matrix with some advanced flags to narrow down only itineraries with LUXTV fares.
@Remedios wrote:Well, given status extensions through the year 3999, doing 1up with status match, and introducing Buy Now Pay Later at the checkout if one if paying with any Amex card (bad when Clarna does it, *innovative* when airline does it), unless fuel prices go through the roof, I'd expect plane politics to get even more complex and I'd expect delta to start offering seats in wheel-well.
Then again, all but one of my recent experiences with Delta have been poop emoji, so I might be a tad salty.
O/T - We'll fly Spirit next time. Or, whatever it's going to be called once Spirit/Frontier merge. Plenty of seats available! Yes, you can bring emu or otters onboard...for support and companionship 
So, you've never experienced "wheel-well" class? Not much room on a 737 (plus a bit drafty), but on 787, 777 or A350 -- plenty of room. Hard to find on A380 or 748, those are always full 
@FinStar wrote:
@Remedios wrote:Well, given status extensions through the year 3999, doing 1up with status match, and introducing Buy Now Pay Later at the checkout if one if paying with any Amex card (bad when Clarna does it, *innovative* when airline does it), unless fuel prices go through the roof, I'd expect plane politics to get even more complex and I'd expect delta to start offering seats in wheel-well.
Then again, all but one of my recent experiences with Delta have been poop emoji, so I might be a tad salty.
O/T - We'll fly Spirit next time. Or, whatever it's going to be called once Spirit/Frontier merge. Plenty of seats available! Yes, you can bring emu or otters onboard...for support and companionship
So, you've never experienced "wheel-well" class? Not much room on a 737 (plus a bit drafty), but on 787, 777 or A350 -- plenty of room. Hard to find on A380 or 748, those are always full
Spitier?
As far as wheel class, not in the past 17 years. For fact checking purposes (I knew I'd find use for this screenshot eventually 😐😂).
@Remedios wrote:
@FinStar wrote:
@Remedios wrote:Well, given status extensions through the year 3999, doing 1up with status match, and introducing Buy Now Pay Later at the checkout if one if paying with any Amex card (bad when Clarna does it, *innovative* when airline does it), unless fuel prices go through the roof, I'd expect plane politics to get even more complex and I'd expect delta to start offering seats in wheel-well.
Then again, all but one of my recent experiences with Delta have been poop emoji, so I might be a tad salty.
O/T - We'll fly Spirit next time. Or, whatever it's going to be called once Spirit/Frontier merge. Plenty of seats available! Yes, you can bring emu or otters onboard...for support and companionship
So, you've never experienced "wheel-well" class? Not much room on a 737 (plus a bit drafty), but on 787, 777 or A350 -- plenty of room. Hard to find on A380 or 748, those are always full
Spitier?
As far as wheel class, not in the past 17 years. For fact checking purposes (I knew I'd find use for this screenshot eventually 😐😂).
😂
From your screenshot, when it says "100% upfront", was that in the cockpit doing Jasmine things? near the cockpit? Or, front wheel well area? Sounds to me like you'd be a great candidate for Spitier's Big Front Seat (should they decide to keep it post-merger) 😁
@FinStar wrote:
@Remedios wrote:
@FinStar wrote:
@Remedios wrote:Well, given status extensions through the year 3999, doing 1up with status match, and introducing Buy Now Pay Later at the checkout if one if paying with any Amex card (bad when Clarna does it, *innovative* when airline does it), unless fuel prices go through the roof, I'd expect plane politics to get even more complex and I'd expect delta to start offering seats in wheel-well.
Then again, all but one of my recent experiences with Delta have been poop emoji, so I might be a tad salty.
O/T - We'll fly Spirit next time. Or, whatever it's going to be called once Spirit/Frontier merge. Plenty of seats available! Yes, you can bring emu or otters onboard...for support and companionship
So, you've never experienced "wheel-well" class? Not much room on a 737 (plus a bit drafty), but on 787, 777 or A350 -- plenty of room. Hard to find on A380 or 748, those are always full
Spitier?
As far as wheel class, not in the past 17 years. For fact checking purposes (I knew I'd find use for this screenshot eventually 😐😂).
😂
From your screenshot, when it says "100% upfront", was that in the cockpit doing Jasmine things? near the cockpit? Or, front wheel well area? Sounds to me like you'd be a great candidate for Spitier's Big Front Seat (should they decide to keep it post-merger) 😁
I think you just called me chunky.
On the nose, like a 🚀.
In any case, I'm just not happy with Delta anything at the moment, but given where I live, I'm semi-hostage, and that's fine, not everyone needs to fanboi/fangirl.
