January 2007
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Delta Air Lines has reduced fares on several forthcoming European and Middle Eastern connections.
Links to three of the Georgia-based carrier’s most recently announced destinations - the Czech capital Prague, Austria’s capital Vienna, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates - are on sale until the end of the month, for travel from May through June.
Prague will be served by Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, and Phoenix from May 2; flights to Vienna will connect via Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, and Salt Lake City from May 21; and Dubai’s links with Atlanta, Orlando, Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles begin on May 31.
Journeys to the Czech Republic will start from $399 one-way, but must be completed by June 16; Vienna flights start at $499, and trips to Dubai cost from $629 in each direction based on a round-trip, though itineraries can be completed by June 30.
Delta underwent massive expansion last year and announced the addition of 50 new routes to its network, including domestic, Latin American, Canadian and Caribbean connections, as well as new links with Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Written by admin on January 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Skiing may be a solitary passion, but travel is not. At the end of the day, it’s great to gather around the fire with a few good friends and regale each other about life on the slopes. It’s getting those friends to travel with you that’s the key and it’s a lot easier if the airfare is free.
That’s what Delta Vacations is offering through January 29, the chance to bring along a skiing companion for free, at least as far as the airfare goes.
The “Companion Flies Free” promotion applies to the 2006/2007 ski season. Travel has to take place by July 31, so even after the white stuff has melted you can still take to the mountains.
Delta Vacations’ deal can add up to savings of $600 per package, based on dual occupancy, and the places you’ll occupy include Aspen, Beaver Creek, Vail, Deer Valley, Banff, Tremblant and Whistler.
This deal is good on all new bookings for air-inclusive travel to select destinations and resorts that are part of the tour company’s extensive product line.
Written by admin on January 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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If you’re a Delta Air Lines SkyMiles® member in search of more redemption flexibility, your moment may have come. The nation’s third-largest airline is not reworking SkyMiles radically, but it is building in some much-needed flexibility that could help stretch your miles.
When booking a travel award, you can now combine Coach, First Class/BusinessElite®, SkySaver and SkyChoice travel on one ticket and save thousands of miles in the process. No longer are you locked into one option on both the outbound and return legs of your journey.
Case-in-point: travel Atlanta (ATL) to London Gatwick (LGW) in a SkyChoice BusinessElite seat, and return in a SkySaver Coach seat. Redemption? 150,000 miles under the new formula, as opposed to 250,000 miles under the old one.
Another example, this one closer to home. Fly New York Kennedy (JFK) to Los Angeles in a SkySaver First Class seat, and return via SkySaver Coach for 35,000 miles. That leg used to run 45,000 miles.
Later this year, look for Delta Air Lines to:
- Offer an online availability calendar at www.delta.com. This will allow you to shop around for award seats;
- Automatically contact Medallion elite members when an upgrade has cleared. If you’re a Medallion member waiting for an upgrade to materialize, Delta Air Lines will automatically add you to the standby list at the airport upon check-in.
SkyMiles is potent. Delta contends that the program led the airline industry with 3.3 million award tickets in 2005.
Written by admin on January 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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The big hammering of business travelers would come if the Justice Department rolls over and approves US Airways’ $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid for Delta, thwarting the Atlanta carrier’s exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
besides immediate slashing of flights, fewer reward seats and upgrades, higher fares; it’s a certainty employee mood aloft and on the ground will be grim to grumpy. USAir has a notoriously poor reputation of merging airline cultures when it acquires other carriers. And if you talk to America West and USAir cabin crews—and I have—nobody’s happy with that consolidation. Plus, it hasn’t even been fully consummated yet.
There are gripes galore and it’s the passengers who bear the brunt of that bloodshed. Delta’s workforce has long been battered under inept management and hopeful of a turnaround under current chairman/CEO Gerald Grinstein who’s fiercely fighting the US Air attack.
Meantime, will United swallow Continental and AirTran gobble up Midwest? Certainly hope not, because no good will come out of it for those of us who pay the freight. I recently flew roundtrip on United from Kona, Hawaii to SFO and had superb service from the flight attendants in both directions. Was almost like flying used to be. But in both cases, the attendants were former Pan Am crewmembers who still have their loyalties to their previous employer.
Despite the cuts and cutbacks in pay and benefits they’ve endured, both said they look after passengers “the way we did at Pan Am.” What can you do to preserve some independence? Write your Congressperson and let the free market pilot the planes.
Written by admin on January 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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Hawaii’s newest interisland airline,
go! is selling seats between Honolulu (HNL) and a number of Neighbor Islands for $20.07. That’s the kind of discount airfare designed to get you off Oahu for a while, and onto the state’s other islands.
To land get this dramatically low discount airfare you’ll have to book and buy between 7am today (Monday, January 1) Hawaii Standard Time, and 11:59pm on Monday, January 8. Then, travel through February 28.
$20.07 buys one-way passage from Honolulu to either Lihue, Kauai (LIH); Kahlului, Maui (OGG); or Kona (KOA) or Hilo (ITO) on the Big Island of Hawaii.
At a discount airfare like this, seats are - of course - limited. Tickets are neither transferable nor refundable, and exclude taxes and fees. If you need to change your reservation prior to departure, count on at least doubling the tab. It will cost $20 per person for a change, plus any applicable difference in airfare, and added taxes and fees.
Written by admin on January 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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