Book Delta One Business Class for Less Miles and Points

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Delta Airlines will charge you a bunch of Delta SkyMiles for a Delta One Business Class flight to Europe. But you can book the same Delta One flight through V. Atlantic for just 50,000 V. Atlantic Flying Club Points and $5.60 in taxes and fees each way.
Overall process is to earn credit card points, find award availability, transfer points to V. Atlantic and book your Delta One flight!
Finding award availability can be tough sometimes but sometimes Delta quietly releases a bunch of award availability at one time. To know when Delta releases award availability check out Thrifty Traveler Premium
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Use Code: MAX10 for $10 off your first year
In order to make this redemption you need:
Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
Amex Membership Rewards Points
Capital One Venture Miles
Citi ThankYou Points
Bilt Rewards Points
All of these points transfer to V. Atlantic at a 1:1 ratio. If you're interested in cards that earn these points check out the links below.
This means cards like:
Chase Sapphire Reserve
Chase Sapphire Preferred
American Express Gold
American Express Platinum
Citi Premier
Capital One Venture and Venture X
All earn points that are transferable to V. Atlantic
Watch the video for step-by-step instructions on how to make this booking!
Tips:
• Focus on searching for non-stop Delta flights to Europe
• V. Atlantic page is super annoying to search on so have patience
• Use the Award Calendar Trick at 5:25
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@hanniblejulien Год назад

Thank you so much! I am planning a trip to europe next August and this helps since I really wanted to go via business class. Thank you!

@cjjunkee8602 Год назад

Thanks Max, great video as usual!!! Thanks for adding the "transfer time" on there, it really helps when transferring points, can I request another thing you can add, lol, asking for too much now, lol, sorry, just a suggestion, I know that Delta's award availabilities shows up 331 days and Virgin Atlantic is 330 days, that's the best time to look for award availabilities, I think this will really complete your video...from EARNING the points, from which cards, transfer time, point ratio, using flight connections from which airport departs/arrives, and when to look for award availability...but overall, love the platform: EARN, REDEEM, and MAXIMIZE!!! THANKS AGAIN MAX!!!

@LukesPointsandMiles Год назад

Awesome Video!!!! I just booked an (almost) Valentine's Day trip with the wife: DTW - Amsterdam using this technique!! 50K Virgin Miles!!

@JenWoodhouse1 Год назад

Wow, that flexible calendar tip is GOLD! Thanks Max!

@skylerkelley3214 Год назад

I tried doing this exactly following your video. And like you said about flexible dates, I did the exact thing that you mentioned to do with flexible dates and I still wasn't recieving anything.

@AskDrSusan Год назад

I’ve been searching a lot, and this is by far the best explanation video on how to use Virgin Atlantic points.

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching!

@noorddinkachhi7920 Год назад

Max! As always great content, would love it if you can do videos on redeeming points on return flights from Europe/Asia/MiddleEast to USA. That would help us in that area as well!! Thank you Max!

@marielin4074 Год назад

Great video! I’ve just subscribed. Thanks for good advice.

@jimmyjames6492 Год назад

Thanks for step by step video! Much appreciated!

@kimberlysarahphotography2796 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic! Exactly what I needed to learn! I hope we will still be able to do this in 2024! Subscribed!

@roshenw Год назад

This worked!! Thank you so much!! Saved me $300!! You are the man!

@stachco1 Год назад

Thank you Max! Once again your video is the most concise step by step of any I've seen.

@georgia5049 Год назад

You were right when you said the website was garbage. I got it to load once and even then it reset my filters to only show economy. I checked flexible dates and it would only show a single date... I need a drink before I try this again haha. Cool tip though. Thanks!

@guccinupe4593 Год назад

This is true for Standard Season, but good luck finding the availability. Delta is stingy in releasing these. However, if you're looking for a flight during Peak Season, you can get a lie-flat on Air France (which has better food and service). You're looking at 58,500 points and $254 each way. Just booked IAD-CDG roundtrip, non-stop, for me and the family next year!

@bryantramos2382 Год назад

Where did you book that at?

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Nice redemption! 🙌🏼 Air France has been really good with award availability

@ryanshannon6963 Год назад

Homie did a vid on KLM/AF a week or so ago. For US to EU, these two options will definitely be the first on my list. I wish there were just as generous options for US to Asia that didn't involve JAL/Alaska and ANA. ANA is *the only* reason why I'd even consider Amex Plat, but I'm not some schmoozy East Coaster Bourgeoisie and don't pay $500/month for an elliptical class in a business building.

@kashifkhan65 Год назад

@nupe the real question is how to stack up points on American Express, Chase, credit cards, and get those points to stock up quickly. other then the initial bonus sign up offer. Do you have any tricks to points churning?

@healthykrissy212 Год назад

Thank you for this!

@thezeta Год назад

Wish I saw this earlier before I looked at award availability at virgin. Would’ve saved me some time. Great content

@terrirasmussen6268 Год назад

Great video and easy to follow! Thank you!

@rajaiyer79 Год назад

Say awardability one more time! 😂 new subscriber. Great vid.

@isaacmacias7373 Год назад

What a Segway?! Lol great vid. Love the calendar tip. Would be great to see a similar video for Japan/ Asia. Virgin Atlantic to ANA specifically. Edit: found the Japan video!

@ladyphenom84 Год назад

This was extremely helpful! Thank you and keep up the great work 😊

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!

@MariNate1016 Год назад

Pretty cool to see a DTW to CDG since DTW is my spot. Def gonna look into this with my venture and Amex plat

@myphone795 Год назад

Thank you Max... you make great videos redemption please keep ut up!

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Thanks for watching! 🫶🏼

@jjustin5177 Год назад

Like always you are the man great job teaching this old goat how to fly. BZ

@ahmedkamel626 Год назад

This is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing that calendar tip. Does that tip work for other airlines as well? Or just Virgin Atlantic?

@jomamafosho3196 Год назад

Great content. Can you discuss how couples can max their points too? Do we need to apply separately for credit cards? Can I book flights for both of us using my miles? How do we maximize if we have a joint account? Thanks

@michaelwmchugh Год назад

Love the “calendar” hack from Frequent Miler!

@DorFra3 Год назад

I’m new to this points game, so thanks for explaining how award availability works.

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!

@coolbreeze253 Год назад

Being flexible with dates is all well and good but most people have specific reasons for traveling in a fairly narrow range of dates. For example, while I could bracket my preferred dates by a few days, it would be cost prohibitive with anything a lot longer. In the last several years I have attended weddings in Germany and Ireland, cruised from Singapore, Rome and Athens and attended other events in Hong Kong, London and elsewhere. In only one instance was Delta able to get my wife and me to Europe in business class at anything below a few hundred thousand miles. Now I can't even get rid of my remaining 290,000 Skymiles. While I live 25 minutes from ATL, I avoid DL like the plague and instead have accrued more than 2 million miles elsewhere which I redeem regularly. Oh, and I signed up for my first frequent flyer program, not with Delta, in 1981 so I'm not a novice.

@vampov Год назад

Thank you for posting this. Really cool trick. I wonder how long it will last until Virgin Atlantic decides we are getting screwed and shuts this down. Everyone talks about it but no one gives an example. I tried it out and found some really good deals.

@arinagreager Год назад

Great video! Thank you so much for the info. Are you able to transfer points off multiple credit cards toward the same ticket?

@nopefoh Год назад

that calendar url trick is 🔥🔥🔥

@Benitonews Год назад

I just searched /9/24/22 there are no more flights for 50K points and $6 - the lowest price is 48K points and $261 - Thats good too !!

@aginelo Год назад

Great video, do you have any suggestions on flights to downunder Australia 🇦🇺?

@mariagray4805 Год назад

Great video - love that your content gets right to the point and is very step by step. Are you using Thrifty Traveler? I'm debating between that and Going (Scott's Cheap Flights).

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Thanks for watching! Go Thrifty Traveler if you’re looking for award space alerts. Going doesn’t do award space alerts

@MisterJRamos Год назад

Very helpful!

@eacontact2581 Год назад

I booked like this my flights to Japan ( 3 tickets Business class ) like 2-3 weeks before japan open for tourism, you could choose any date and just now i checked again and there is practically no seats available for round trips. Paid around 700k points for 3 businsess class tickets which in ANA i could have never get.

@annanewcastle9392 Год назад

Hey Max, I’ve been following you for a while and finally have enough points to book a trip! I know this video is a few months old but I have spent days trying to get a flight to Europe on rewards points and nothing shows up. I even tried to re-create your flight on the video and I’m not able to get anything. I am trying to go to Italy in May and wondering if Virgin Atlantic is no longer doing the 50 K redemption on delta to Europe non-stop. Thanks for your help.

@kokofahmi3217 Год назад

Great vid. Can u help me find the best flight from the USA to Egypt on American Express points

@cheny414 Год назад

Booked round trip RDU-CDG using this method! I don’t think there’s any more availability anymore though.

@sandykubiak9193 Год назад

Don’t go to calendar first. Must go to ‘date’ and then change to ‘calendar’.

@Ninadion27 Год назад

Great Content

@aaronfunk9809 Год назад

What website are you using at 4:19 to show direct routes to CDG?

@ryanshannon6963 Год назад

No Call Out for "God Save the Queen"? I 👀you. Love your redemption and *MAXIMIZE* tutorials. I think you could maybe expand your content some with general states/updates to cards that can have travel perks, paired with a portion of that same video with things like this. I think it'd possibly scoop up some beginners to the awards game that may be looking at their first travel cards and what ecosystem they should start with, depending upon their goals and what they're comfortable with regarding the entry fee (annual fee cards). I have a couple co-workers I sent some of your videos to and they're just starting the points game and I wish I knew about this whenever I first started a few years ago. Of course, I wish Venture X was out when I first started as well, but my CSR is working okay, but their travel service is so hit and miss, they just ruined one of my flights to BKK by changing the itinerary class and not fully understanding that change when changing the flight date for me. F*cking sucks because I needed the extra space to do some work on that flight and now I'm out of pocket more money. Quite livid about that.

@joshe272 Год назад

curious why you chose Detroit as origination? just one of the possible places for nonstop to uk?

@tammyjohnson6822 Год назад

When you change the search to calendar, you say in the video to hit “search” again. I don’t see where search is located. If you hit “enter” at that point it takes you back to the original booking screen. Can you clarify please?

@alecwitner7681 Год назад

Why do domestic delta flights not show up on KLM/Air France? For example, STL to BOS says no availability with flying blue.

@anhnguyenthingoc9504 Год назад

I am new to the game. Thank you for detailed sharing. I wonder if I can claim miles on Delta after booking like this with Virgin Atlantic 🤔

@luismedina8746 9 месяцев назад

Can you explain what to do to purchase the return ticket with money, not miles. Most airlines like to see RT for international flights otherwise pricing woll be really high.

@PriaDion Год назад

Hello Max, do you know what's the best way to get business class flight from Las Vegas to Manila? Or we can only fly business class from LA to Tokyo? I appreciate all your informative videos

@amanda-bh9ob Год назад

Really want to try the Delta One product but can’t find any availability from LAX. 😢

@supervideo1867 Год назад

What do you recommend for flights from SFO to Barcelona

@Jpantab Год назад

How about booking ANA based flights???

@random1883 Год назад

Know of any similar deals to Asia on Delta One?

@FIRE_AtTheBeach Год назад

can you combine chase and venture together after you transfer?

@bryantramos2382 Год назад

I'm doing what said looking for flights to either Paris or Rome from LAX and it says there's no award availability all the way up to August. Am I searching or doing something?

@DCGEMINI202 Год назад

Ima gonna use this soon

@fernandofood488 Год назад

Really digging your vids! keep it up! I fly a few times a year to different destinations, typically europe and latin america. I have points but typically enough to fly Eco, if I flew 1st often I'd be burning a ton of points. a) how do you get a high quantity of points? is it just sign up bonuses? are their other strategies? and b) what are some of the best airlines for value from Chase and Capital 1?

@Re3iRtH Год назад

SUBs and spending more 💪

@jenniferdawngreen Месяц назад

It’s cold as hell in Paris and Italy in January Lol is any of this possible in May?

@susannatan5599 Год назад

Are there any flight from Orlando or JFK to Singapore

@YingcredibleTips Год назад

Is there a way to check how many seats are available on that award day?

@AlanHernandez-bi9js 5 месяцев назад

I have capital one and I'm trying to figure out how to use miles for delta flights. The funny part is that delta has the flights I'm looking for, but when I go to V Atlantic it says they're not available.

@meiye6728 Год назад

I can not find the ticket back to Saigon And do not know how many point need to be redeem

@K-nh7ws 5 месяцев назад

delta have definitely caught on to this. Theres no crazy low fees for a worthwile point redemption anymore for delta one via virgin atlantic reward flights

@lynetteechevarria7278 6 месяцев назад

Max were do you see the transfer bonuses?

@shontae1998 Год назад

Will this work will Delta Sky miles vs Amex points? I have a bunch of Delta Sky Miles.

@margoriegutierrez Год назад

How do you know which partner will have a flight for less points than the actual airlines website? I’m not understanding how you knew to look at the virgin Atlantic website vs. other websites to get that flight for less airline miles.

@roxaaanne Год назад

Thank you for the tips! In this example, is it better to book two one way flights then, or use the calendar to find a cheap return date and modify your search to Round trip?

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Search one ways first for outbound and inbound flight. The once you’ve found availability for both modify the search for round-trip then book the flights!

@stachco1 Год назад

Thanks. I had the same question.

@waynelast1685 Год назад

Since airline travel is nearing peak levels now, does that mean less rewards flights are available and rewards redemption is going down?

@shahnulislam9897 Год назад

Cant you transfer delta skymiles to Virgin Atlantic miles as well?

@Andrewsakashita Год назад

If you have a delta Amex gold card can that card transfer points over to Virgin Atlantic? Also can you transfer your delta SkyMiles to virgin Atlantic miles?

@fferkim629 Год назад

Does this work for Asia flights too?

@sandyholladay6917 10 месяцев назад

You mention Virgin Atlantic, is this also true for KLF?

@tammyjohnson6822 Год назад

Hi Max. I have Delta points with a Delta Gold AmEx. Am I able to transfer my Delta points to Virgin Air?

@phogenicjosh2601 Год назад

Can this work with a delta Amex? Not sure if you’re able to transfer delta sky miles to Virgin Atlantic

@AkashShekar Год назад

How do i book an air france flight on the air france website using my delta sky miles?

@kelseyclarke9488 6 месяцев назад

Would all of this apply for Japan? Dose the flight need to be nonstop?

@EaslyImpossible Год назад

Where do you get the map from 4:25?

@bluecrystaltearz Год назад

when I'm searching for flights between LAX and CDG, why are the fees in the thousands$?

@jbpatsfan81 Год назад

I'm not able to find any Delta flights. All i'm able to see are the virgin atlantic flights. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong?

@Ecosine1 Год назад

Your video broke the Virgin loophole. The site goes to an error message when changed to calendar 😢

@BruceM8 Год назад

Hi Max. I just stumblied across your channel today and am really enjoying it and have subscribed. I have a question: For Delta awards booked on Virgin Atlantic, does it work to find award availability on the Delta site and then check Virgin for the booking? If Virgin doesn't show the Delta award flight, can you call Virgin to book by phone? Does that work or does Virgin have a more limited availability than what Delta shows on their web site?

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Hey! Thanks for subscribing. Virgin has limited award availability for Delta flights, so calling Virgin won't make a different unfortunately.

@tang213 Год назад

How can I access/view the flight route 4:21

@thebeddoctor4273 Год назад

How hard is it to use points when traveling with a partner? I've noticed every time I see someone do this is a video the do 1 person. I would want me and my wife on the same plane and seats next to eachother. Is that difficult using points?

@globalnewyorker Год назад

Hi Max!! What's wrong with the 48.5K flights? It's not Delta One?

@jerryandcatherinet5863 6 месяцев назад

Max, I have a lot of Delta Skymiles on the books but, like you said, I don’t want to spend 345,000 points going to Europe! How can I use them if I use Virgin Atlantic as a backdoor to Delta? Thank you!!

@GabrielGarcia-bl9yw 9 месяцев назад

Max, I want to book a trip to London this xmas. I have about 166k points on my Venture X card. Any suggestions?

@thebeddoctor4273 Год назад

The 50k points says Europe to US not US to Europe. Is is classified as the same thing for points costs?

@samlewis8354 6 месяцев назад

How should I redeem my delta sky miles . I have 115k I have been getting one way flgihts and doing this for the other

@joannegrat8286 Год назад

But, I have to fly from UK to US so how can I ignore it

@jakmere Год назад

Sucks cause I can only use delta Skymiles on Delta flights and cannot transfer them to virgin Atlantic or any other member of the skyteam alliance.

@Kmssvx111 8 месяцев назад

Hi Max, I think delta figure out. I don’t see low points fights from MEX to Europe. Do you have any suggestions?

@favclips2483 Год назад

Is there an alternative to thrifty, the site is quite $$$ if you would travel x1 - ×2 at the most a year... would appreciate the reply. Your videos are fantastic, very informative and savvy-smart info!

@JB-dr5vq Год назад

Probably Virgin Atlantic is also following your posts: 50K+$6 nowhere to be found anymore..they increased the additional payment to more then $200😢

@kirstennorling2372 5 месяцев назад

Does this still work? I can't find anything...I've tried every week for several months and keep getting the "sorry no flights available" message. I'm looking for either LAX or LAS to either AMS or CDG.

@anneshaneen8281 Год назад

This is a life saver, thank you! Is this (50k+$6) only available for nonstop delta routes?

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Yes! If you can find the award space. Which is really tough right now

@jenniferdawngreen Месяц назад

My trip to Japan delta wanted 450k skymiles for each ticket. Even if it’s 1:1 I would still need 900k credit card points to get those 2 tickets. Unless I am not understanding

@thvan2505 Год назад

hello, it's hard to get a flight reward via virgin atlantic but the transfer bonus promotion via amex is so good right now. (30% extra points). You mentioned we should wait until we found the reward flights and than transfer. Does that apply to all flight programs regardless of the transfer bonus opportunity?

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Yes! Never transfer your points unless you find the award space. You don’t want to have your points stuck with an airline

@rezaarshadi219 Год назад

Hi, I am trying to fly from LAX To ORD business class, i have 50000 sky miles and plenty Am/X what is the best way to book Delta business class?

@Abadani Год назад

The above information is old now. There are no flexible dates anymore. I am trying to go to Tokyo from the East Coast.

@RyanRhodes90 Год назад

Love this idea, though after 30min of searching for *any* flight that gives a bonus I can't find a single one between any airport. This flight path shows zero results now, and even a nearby Chicago shows a minimum of 105k points. Ugh!

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Award availability has been really sparse the last couple months 😕

@marcusyoung5440 Год назад

Another winner! Thanks. I’d love to learn more about Thrifty Traveler or Expert Flyer or other essential tools if you’re interested in doing videos about those. Does this 50k deal work for KLM and AF? I just found 50k Delta deal AMS to MSP in May, but it’s with 200+€ fee. Any thoughts?

@MaxMilesPoints Год назад

Hey! This 50k deal is specifically for delta operated flights booked through Virgin Atlantic. You can book AF or KLM business class for as low as 55k + $250 one way in business class on the AF or KLM website