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The Offer
- Delta is having a flash sale on round trip flights to Hawaii. Prices start at 35,000 miles in economy or 44,000 miles for Delta Comfort+. Book by Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:59pm ET, and travel anytime between August 14 and November 14, 2018
The Fine Print
- Promotional pricing currently not available on the following dates:
- Between Honolulu, HI (HNL) and Seattle, WA (SEA): August 14 – 19, 2018
- Between Honolulu, HI (HNL) and Los Angeles, CA (LAX): August 17 – 21, 2018
- Between Honolulu, HI (HNL) and Minneapolis, MN (MSP): August 16 – 20, 2018
- Between Honolulu, HI (HNL) and Salt Lake City, UT (SLC): August 14 – 21; October 1 – 6; October 20 – 24, 2018
- Between Los Angeles, CA (LAX) and Honolulu, HI (HNL): October 8 – 18, 2018
- Between Los Angeles, CA (LAX) and Kahului, HI (OGG): October 12 – 17, 2018
- Between Kahului, HI (OGG) and Los Angeles, CA (LAX): August 14 – 28; August 31 – September 5; September 21 – 25; October 5 – 9, 2018
- Between Seattle, WA (SEA) and Honolulu, HI (HNL): October 2 – 18, 2018
- Between Seattle, WA (SEA) and Kona, HI (KOA): October 4 – 14, 2018
- Between Seattle, WA (SEA) and Kahului, HI (OGG): October 1 – 21, 2018
- Between Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) and Honolulu, HI (HNL): August 29 – September 6; September 14 – 20; September 29 – October 25; October 30 – November 4, 2018
- Between Atlanta, GA (ATL) and Honolulu, HI (HNL): October 10 – 18, 2018
- Between Honolulu, HI (HNL) and Atlanta, GA (ATL): August 15 – 19, 2018
Our Verdict
Delta likes to have their cake and eat it too, they don’t publish award charts anymore but they still have sales like this. This deal isn’t even particularly good (e.g Korean is 30,000 miles round trip on Hawaiian & 25,000 on Delta). I guess the plus with this promotion is you get to use up Delta miles before they inevitably devalue them again without notice. Comfort+ might be an appealing option for some as well.
Hat tip to Frequent Miler
The big benefit here is you can burn MR instead of UR on Korean.
The ATL-HNL prices are 75k for economy and 99k for Comfort+, which may be a decent flash sale for miles – iirc, 90k is the usual basic economy price for most dates – but if you value Skymiles at 1 cpp, it’s not a great cash price.
Scott’s Cheap Flights usually has a Hawaii fare every 2-3 months that’s $300-600.
Relevant note: Delta was advertising on their site recently that they are now offering complimentary meals and drinks for all cabins on ATL-HNL flights
For some people (like me) nonstop is more important then less miles or even an upgraded seat (economy to extra comfort).
Therefore from the Northeast to Hawaii only two airlines fly nonstop. Hawaiian and United. Transfering Amex points to Hawaiian airlines when they have the 20% bonus seems to be the very best deal.
As always, Atlanta is excluded from the cheap pricing. Something needs to be done to stop Deltas monopoly over ATL. We never have any good deals with Delta because there’s no real competition.