While travel is still down due to COVID-19 and its variants. If you are looking to travel then Delta Airlines is running discounted reward travel a.k.a Delta Flash Sales for North American destinations including domestic travel starting 10k+ Delta Skymiles roundtrip. Although they advertise limited routes on the "deals" page there are more destinations that are available at the discounted award rates. Also the deals are sometimes valid beyond the dates which are advertised, so look beyond the advertisement. Below are some of the advertised routes from SJC.

One important thing to note is that the advertised deals are in "basic economy" which ideally does not allow any change/cancellation after 24 hours of booking it, but with current Delta Airlines waiver for change fees on basic economy it may be worth booking it if it fits your travel needs. For e.g. below is the outbound section of flight to Los Cabos for 13.5k miles + $115 round trip from Nov 16 to Nov 25th. The revenue ticket for the same day flights are ~$264 so you are redeeming your miles for closer to 1.1 cent/mile.

So explore the current Delta Airlines flash sale if you have upcoming travel plans and you might be in luck.

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Due to spread of Coronavirus named COVID-19 majority of airlines in the U.S.A. are now offering free cancellation (in some cases free change of dates). There is a catch though for all of them where the refund will be provided as a credit for the future ticket (again the length of validity of that credit varies). The policy are different for different airlines in regards to when the tickets were booked and the flight date till which the policy would be applicable.

The good news is that if you have any travel plans within the eligible dates then the time is to book NOW!! Since you are eligible to cancel without any reason you can be assured that if your plans change you will not lose your flight money completely (although it would be tied to particular airline only). The policy also applies to "basic economy" fares which are the most restrictive otherwise.

That being said the best deal out there is with JetBlue Airways as there policy applies equally to both revenue fares purchased as well as Award Tickets. So below are the links for major U.S. Airlines regarding their change/cancellation policy.

JetBlue Airways: Policy applies to both revenue fare as well as Award Tickets. The refund will be provided in "JetBlue travel bank" credit for revenue ticket and taxes+fees on award tickets. The credit expires 1 year from initial issue date.

Alaska Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only. The refund will be provided in "Alaska Wallet" which is valid for travel till 28th Feb 2021.

American Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only and only "changes" are allowed. Also there are few "gotcha" in terms of the valid dates of booking and travel which you need to be aware of.

Delta Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only and only "changes" are allowed. Both domestic and international tickets can be changes without paying change fees when booked within applicable dates.

United Airlines: Policy applies to revenue fare only and both changes and cancellations are allowed. For cancelled tickets the original ticket value will be retained for future travel up to 12 months from the original ticket issue date. Also this applies only to tickets purchase within applicable dates.

So, if you have any travel plans within the applicable booking cancellations dates now is the best time to book it.

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As Lyft expands its service in the United States it is also expanding the partnership where you can earn miles and points as well as cashback for the rides taken with them. You do need to link up your mileage or points earning account to earn miles and points. Below are the current partnership where lyft provides potential to earn miles/points.

JetBlue Lyft Partnership:
JetBlue offers existing Lyft users opportunity to earn JetBlue points for rides to/from airport. You need to link your JetBlue account with lyft. For every ride taken you earn 30 JetBlue points. Although those are small amount of points they are free. More details can be found here. 

Delta Lyft Partnership:
Delta Airlines has also partnered with Lyft where you earn 1 mile/$ for non-airport rides and 2 miles/$ for airport rides for exiting Lyft users. This has potential of earning variable amount of Delta Airlines miles depending on the cost of the ride you take. You need to link your Delta Airlines account with Lyft to start earning. More details can be found here. 

Hilton Lyft Parnership:
Hilton Hotels has partnered with Lyft where you earn 2 points/$ on shared ride and 3 points/$ on all other Lyft rides. You can earn variable amount of Hilton Honor points based on the spend. You need to link your Hilton Honors account with Lyft to start earning. More details on this partnership can be found here. 

Earn Cashback with Ebates App:
Although not a significant amount you can earn cashback for every ride you take with Lyft while launching the Lyft App from Ebates App and booking your ride. As of this writing Ebates is offering $0.25 per ride but in the past it has been as high as $1. So, if you have cashback account with Ebates it would be nice to earn cashback for the ride you are going to take anyway. More details can be found on this blog post. 

When linking the accounts make sure you enter the names correctly. For e.g. Delta Airlines webpage will throw error if you do not enter correct name as per your Delta Airlines Mileage account. 

So, get going and link your accounts today so you earn the miles/points on JetBlue, Delta and Hilton. Also do remember the cash back through Ebates App.

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It's shopping season again and some of the major airline affiliated shopping portals are offering tiered bonus miles for spending money at various advertised merchants. Below are the current mileage bonus promotions from various airlines shopping portals.

Delta Airlines:
Earn up to 1,000 bonus Delta Skymiles for shopping from 11/05/2018 to 11/18/2018.

• Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 1,000 bonus miles when you spend $300.

American Airlines:
Earn up to 4,000 American Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 2,000 bonus miles when you spend $600.
• Earn 4,000 bonus miles when you spend $1,200.

United Airlines:
Earn up to 5,000 United miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 2,500 bonus miles when you spend $750.
• Earn 5,000 bonus miles when you spend $1500.​

Southwest Airlines:
Earn up to 3,000 Southwest Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• ​Earn 500 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 1,000 bonus miles when you spend $500.
• Earn 3,000 bonus miles when you spend $1,000.

Alaska Airlines:
Earn up to 1,500 Alaska Airlines miles for shopping till 11/18/2018.

• Earn 300 bonus miles when you spend $150.
• Earn 750 bonus miles when you spend $300.
• ​Earn 1,500 bonus miles when you spend $500.

Each one of you would values miles from specific airlines differently. So, based on your preference as well as amount you are looking to spend you might want to lean towards specific airlines shopping portal. Enjoy the bonus miles on items which might be discounted earlier then the Thanksgiving!

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Delta SkyMiles are known as pesos with very low value in miles world. But there are few things which set them apart:

1. Delta SkyMiles never expire.
2. You can redeem them at 1 cent / per point value for cash ticket if you hold their co-branded American Express cards.
3. Delta flash sales which happen at regular interval these days where you can get great value for redemption (greater than 1 cent value which SkyMiles is famous for).

It's the flash sales which Delta seems to be doing on regular interval making them one of the go-to currency if you are flexible with your travel plans. for e.g. at the time of this writing below is one of the sale going on:

As you can see delta is charging 8000 miles + taxes for each way between ATL-CHS which otherwise is higher than the advertised cost in miles. Although you will need to check for available dates this is a better value than 1 cent/point.
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Another such flash sale going at the moment is for Caribbean and Australia. For e.g. you can fly to Caribbean for 14,000 miles + taxes round trip or to down under for just 50,000 miles + taxes round trip.

So, take advantage of this deals while they keep coming and get good value out of your so called SkyPesos.

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Delta is offering certain Delta Skymiles members opportunity to earn up to 25k Delta Skymiles by doing transaction's with various non-airline partners (targeted).  You earn 1,000 Skymiles for each unique partner activity with which you have not done any Delta Skymiles earning transaction from Jan 1st, 2017 to Oct 17th, 2017. There are few non-airline partner exclusions such as Delta Vacations, Points.com, Gilt and Biscoff.

​An easy 1,000 miles could be earn by transferring 1,000 miles from American Express Membership Rewards (MR) Points, SPG Hotels Rewards program or doing a $1 shopping transaction from Skymiles shopping portal. There is a limit of 1 bonus per transacting partner. You can check the partner conversion rates for non-airline partners here. Below is the snap shot of promotion page:

You can check if you are eligible for this offer by going to the link here. Below are terms for this promotion:
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Terms and Conditions
Member eligibility: This is a private offer is exclusively for selected SkyMiles members who receive the promotional email. Offer is not transferable to other members.
Offer Registration: Offer registration is required. To register, eligible members need to visit the dedicated landing page and register with their SkyMiles number. 
Offer: Registered SkyMiles members will earn a bonus of 1,000 miles for every new participating partner they earn miles with between October 16, 2017 and December 31, 2017 up to a maximum of 25,000 bonus miles per member. The term "New" refers to a partner the member has not earned miles with during the period January 1, 2017 to October 17, 2017.
Participating Partners:   The following non-airline partners are participating in this offer: SkyMiles Credit Card Partners, Hotels & Airbnb, Car Partners, SkyMiles Cruises, Retail and Specialty, Financial Partners, SkyMiles Shopping and SkyMiles Dining.  For a list of partners, please click here. Airline partners, Delta Vacations, Gilt, Points.com and Biscoff are expressly excluded from this offer.
Airbnb Terms: Visit deltaairbnb.com for full terms and conditions of this offer.
Lyft Terms: Visit delta.com/lyft for full terms and conditions of this offer.
Eligibility of Transactions: Only accrual partner transactions with an activity date between October 16, 2017 and December 31, 2017 will be considered for this bonus. Activity date is defined as the date of the transaction as reported by the partner regardless of the date the transaction is posted in the member’s account. Some partners offer multiple ways to earn miles under different products, brands, conversion of currency to miles, etc. These will still be considered as a single partner. Some examples of these cases are: Hotels booked via delta.com Hotels, hotel brands under the same Hotel portfolio, stay activity and a points conversion to miles from the same partner and others.
Please allow up to 60 days after the qualifying transaction for bonus miles to be added in your account.
Delta may change the SkyMiles program rules, change or terminate program partners, regulations, benefits, conditions of participation or mileage levels, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice, even though changes may affect the value of mileage already accumulated. This offer may be terminated by Delta at any time, with our without notice. All SkyMiles program rules apply to SkyMiles program membership, miles, offers, mile accrual, mile redemption, and travel benefits. Offers void where prohibited by law. Other restrictions may apply. To review the rules, please visit delta.com/memberguide.
Delta, SkyMiles, and the Delta logo are registered service marks of Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Promotional Reference Code: To enquire about this offer, please refer to code 179004 when contacting any Delta customer service representative.

So go ahead and check if you are eligible to register for this promotion and earn some easy Delta Skymiles with this promotion!!. ​
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There is a nice promotion where you can earn maximum of 25,000 Delta Skymiles by earning 1,000 Skymiles for each unique partner activity. If you have not taken advantage of it yet you still have till 06/30/2017 to earn at-least few thousand delta skymiles if not the max of 25,000 miles. ​​Here is the promotion link to register for this offer before you go ahead and spend at the partners. The terms state that it is open to all Delta Skymiles members except the one residing in APAC Region. Also only the partner member with whom you have not earned any miles from March 24, 2016 to March 23, 2017 are eligible for this promotion. The detailed terms can be found here.

Below are few examples (provided you have not done any transactions with them through Delta Skymiles) to earn easy miles.

• Skymiles Dining - By dining at any of the dining network partner restaurants and with spend as low as $1 you can earn 1,000 bonus mile in this category. If you are not a member of Skymiles Dining program then you can enroll for current sign-up promotion of earning up to 3,000 Skymiles.
• Skymiles Shopping - By shopping at any of the partner merchants such as walmart.com and homedepot.com through the Delta Skymiles shopping website and ordering any item of more than $1 you would easily earn 1,000 miles in this category.
• Car Rental or a Lyft Ride - Delta recently partnered with Lyft where you could earn 1 mile / $ spent on Lyft Ride. Since even Lyft's line service qualify for this earning you can easily earn 1,000 miles with Lyft ride.  If you have any car rental's coming up in the next few days you could even credit one of those rental to Delta Skymiles and easily earn bonus 1,000 miles.
• Hotels & AirBnB - You could have one of the up coming stays with any of the hotel partners or AirBnB and that could give 1,000 Skymiles. 
• Credit Card partner - You could sign up for one of the American Express Delta co-branded card and earn a 1,000 Delta miles apart from the miles for sign-up for the credit card. This may not be on every one's list though.
  

There are bunch of partners in each of the category and except airline partners most of other unique partner activities qualify. You can find the complete list of partners here. 

As you can see you can easily earn 2,000 to 3,000 Delta Skymiles without much effort at all. If you have stays or travel coming up and you can credit to Delta Skymiles then you earning potential can easily go much higher with this promotion. So, go ahead and get the easy one's at-least while the promotion lasts.