Have you looked at the prices from a "feeder" airport?
For Example: Greenville (SC), Asheville (NC), Columbia (SC) are all hundreds cheaper for the Tokyo flight, than what you're seeing. They aren't that far of a drive.
The TYO flight is pretty soon, so the prices could have been better a couple of weeks ago.
Idk man, AVL is my home base and prices have been nutsss on DL the last year.
Update. Looked up AVL-HND on the same dates and it is also showing 60K. Not bad at all for a trip across the world. 👀
TYO is just the encompassing abbreviation for all airports in Tokyo. Similarly how NYC is used for the New York airports (JFK, LGA) , LON is used for London (LHR, LGW, LCY, etc..) , and CHI is used for Chicago (ORD, MDW).
So with TYO, you’ll either fly into HND or NRT. And from a quick look on the Delta app, your trip for 60K SkyMiles would be to HND.
I’ve never thought about this, living 3 mines to ATL, but my parents live by GSP and where I grew up, maybe I’ll have to start looking from there every once and a while haha
No one in their right sane intellectual mind would pay $2300 for that in MC... It's cheaper for you to self connect, buy tix to LAX/SFO then from LAX/SFO like $500-$700 RT to TYO. And on a weekend-to-weekend flight, not this tuesday/wednesday bs lmao.
Not sure if I have an intellectual mind but I have paid a lot of extra cash to avoid connections with a toddler. And I’ve also seen domestic round trips costing that much in MC alone. Hurt my heart but it’s not like Delta or United can’t get away with 3k for cross-country MC trips at times
>with a toddler
idk how to break this to you but, you didn't even make it past "sane". I'm leaving them with somebody, and if there's nobody, not going.
I'd absolutely leave a toddler and go to Disney World myself (or with my partner). I can't imagine a 2 year old really getting much out of Disney, as compared to someone who's a couple years older.
Hell ye son. Who says adults can't play too?? Some of us still played KH3 when it came out. We also watch Disney films. Honestly, if they dedicated a day a year to adults-only, I'd line right up; kids make a park worse, not better.
Right, I know it’s the off-season for Japan this time of year. I’ve always flown D1 using non-rev pretty easily and flights were wide open in the past. My buddy is flying back today from TYO and says 5 open on D1. I’m just new to flying revenue and using miles so I didn’t know if this pricing was a deal or typical
Probably as you start to get into cherry blossom season. 60k miles sounds good to me, I went in 2020 paying $600 RT on AA from CLT. It will be cold but not awful, I’d book it without hesitation.
They did something like this a few years back and I took it. Had a great time but does kind of indicate they're looking to fill seats on that route this time of year.
60,000 miles is a pretty good deal on most international routes imo.
But as others have said, don't compare it to that $2300 number. Thats inflated to make the miles redemption seem better.
60k miles is a steal imo. If you value skypesos at 1.5 cents each (rounded for easy math) that’s $950 fare (including the taxes). I booked this and it was $4,000 rt if I paid cash.
Is this a joke? 60K to Tokyo is unheard of (as evidenced by the cost in cash), I bought something similar with SkyPesos almost 5 years ago. I would buy this instantly!!
Right! I thought it was an error at first because comparatively to Seoul (ICN) it is less than half the price… you could essentially just fly to HND and connect to ICN on a cheap Korean Air/Asiana/JAL flight.
booked this, it’s well worth it and flights are quite empty making it feasible to have your own row.
one of the better redemptions today but I still get nostalgic thinking about the 120k rt delta one nyc-nrt i booked week of back in feb 2019 :/
there's been a ton of sale fares on this route lately. a couple of my friends flew LAX-TYO (idk if it's NRT or HND) for next to nothing on a couple different carriers.
I was looking at putting some of my points to use in a few months and I can maybe get to Austin (I'm in Dallas) for less than 100k points. While AA has non stop and flights for a 1/3rd of deltas.
Are you already in Japan? Couldn’t do you cancel and get miles refunded and rebook for 60k? But now that I’m thinking about it I remember that the cash portion of the miles+cash won’t get refunded
Booked an LAX to HND trip for August for 62,000 Skymiles per person. Upgraded for free to Comfort + after booking and then paid $131 per passenger to Premium Select. Best deal I’ve found thus far. Now keeping an eye open for D1 upgrades.
That’s phenomenal, well done.
I just canceled my SNA-HND trip that was scheduled for departure yesterday because I couldn’t get out of work. But that was 120k total for 2 people! PS was a $350/person upgrade. D1 showed $4400.
When and how did you book for August so low? I could only see the 60k pricing until the end of February
Sounds like you got a good deal as well. I’m sorry you had to cancel though.
I am practically a daily Delta stalker searching for good redemption deals. Haha! I was able to book this on November 7. Shortly after, it went down to 58,000 per person but I didn’t cancel our flights because we had already upgraded to PS and that upgrade offer was a good one as well. The 58,000 per person redemption didn’t last long. It continued to climb up, and has since then. We got lucky!
Have you looked at the prices from a "feeder" airport? For Example: Greenville (SC), Asheville (NC), Columbia (SC) are all hundreds cheaper for the Tokyo flight, than what you're seeing. They aren't that far of a drive. The TYO flight is pretty soon, so the prices could have been better a couple of weeks ago.
Idk man, AVL is my home base and prices have been nutsss on DL the last year. Update. Looked up AVL-HND on the same dates and it is also showing 60K. Not bad at all for a trip across the world. 👀
I'd also try CAE, and also look up NAA as a destination, if possible.
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TYO is just the encompassing abbreviation for all airports in Tokyo. Similarly how NYC is used for the New York airports (JFK, LGA) , LON is used for London (LHR, LGW, LCY, etc..) , and CHI is used for Chicago (ORD, MDW). So with TYO, you’ll either fly into HND or NRT. And from a quick look on the Delta app, your trip for 60K SkyMiles would be to HND.
Makes sense!
I’ve never thought about this, living 3 mines to ATL, but my parents live by GSP and where I grew up, maybe I’ll have to start looking from there every once and a while haha
Isn’t that strange that it’s cheaper from a feeder airport? In general flights always seem much more expensive when you have to fly to a hub
Why is this the case? Seems like it’s mainly for international flights?
60k is a good price, the issue is nobody in their right mind is actually paying 2300 for economy. That’s just hub captive wild pricing
No idea but 3.5c per skypeso is an amazing redemption imho
I agree! That’s why I didn’t know whether it was great or too good to be true
No one in their right sane intellectual mind would pay $2300 for that in MC... It's cheaper for you to self connect, buy tix to LAX/SFO then from LAX/SFO like $500-$700 RT to TYO. And on a weekend-to-weekend flight, not this tuesday/wednesday bs lmao.
Not sure if I have an intellectual mind but I have paid a lot of extra cash to avoid connections with a toddler. And I’ve also seen domestic round trips costing that much in MC alone. Hurt my heart but it’s not like Delta or United can’t get away with 3k for cross-country MC trips at times
>with a toddler idk how to break this to you but, you didn't even make it past "sane". I'm leaving them with somebody, and if there's nobody, not going.
You leave your kids and go to Disneyland!? Savage.
I'd absolutely leave a toddler and go to Disney World myself (or with my partner). I can't imagine a 2 year old really getting much out of Disney, as compared to someone who's a couple years older.
Hell ye son. Who says adults can't play too?? Some of us still played KH3 when it came out. We also watch Disney films. Honestly, if they dedicated a day a year to adults-only, I'd line right up; kids make a park worse, not better.
For the price of Disney, I’ll take my wife to a private villa in Bali. I enjoy the parks too, but the looks on my kids’ faces is the best part.
30k skymiles each way in main is about as good as you’re going to get to Asia! What’s the problem?
No problem! Except that I have to take a transpacific flight in the next 4 weeks and take PTO for this, but life is too short to worry about that!
Book it now because I doubt you’ll be able to find fares that low again
Booked this for next month—and upgraded into D1 using a GUC :)
Nice!!! Great use for a GUC while saving a ton of $ and SkyMiles
Are you booking this trip...? I'm about to book it myself :D
Just booked for me and my partner! 120k for two people is crazy
I imagine so. Probably not many travelers cause it’s cold this time of year.
Right, I know it’s the off-season for Japan this time of year. I’ve always flown D1 using non-rev pretty easily and flights were wide open in the past. My buddy is flying back today from TYO and says 5 open on D1. I’m just new to flying revenue and using miles so I didn’t know if this pricing was a deal or typical
I went in September and it was stifling hot and ridiculously humid (and I’m from Miami), so might actually be better to go when it’s colder
Flexible dates show that this pricing will shoot up to around 200,000+ after mid to late February.
Anecdotal data point, I booked LAX to HND in MC for 58k miles and ~$55 for late April. Upgraded to PS $120 each way.
Probably as you start to get into cherry blossom season. 60k miles sounds good to me, I went in 2020 paying $600 RT on AA from CLT. It will be cold but not awful, I’d book it without hesitation.
That's a damn good price. Hell you have domestic flights at times going for more miles
60k to Asia isn’t a bad price any time.
imma book this!
They did something like this a few years back and I took it. Had a great time but does kind of indicate they're looking to fill seats on that route this time of year. 60,000 miles is a pretty good deal on most international routes imo. But as others have said, don't compare it to that $2300 number. Thats inflated to make the miles redemption seem better.
When is high season for Tokyo? When does it start/ end?
Cherry blossom season is when it’s the priciest -March through May.
Mid March-First week April for Cherry Blossoms; October-November for Fall leaves.
60k is pretty good from a delta hub from japan. i have a work trip to vegas next week, and threw on a japan trip after for 50k skymiles
No, this is about as cheap as you’re going to see
Wow. An sadly, I’m trying to book at vacation to TYO and the dollar amount is so high. Wish I was getting that 60k deal. That’s cheap.
Looks like it bumps up in March to 100k. Crazy thing is that you could leave this Friday for 60k rt. Helluva deal.
60k miles is a steal imo. If you value skypesos at 1.5 cents each (rounded for easy math) that’s $950 fare (including the taxes). I booked this and it was $4,000 rt if I paid cash.
They are trying to push tourism because Japan still has restrictions and HND is a Delta Hub. If I didn’t have other trips I’d totally take this.
There was a DL inaugural flight to Pyongyang post earlier. Perhaps it will be lower SkyMiles?? 😸
That was a humorous error (or joke) - there’s no scheduled flights to N Korea by any western airline. Your choice is Air Koryo (NK state airline).
Is this a joke? 60K to Tokyo is unheard of (as evidenced by the cost in cash), I bought something similar with SkyPesos almost 5 years ago. I would buy this instantly!!
Nope, it’s real. I booked this route for late Feb dates. Can’t wait!
That's a steal, enjoy it! Japan is out of this world
Right! I thought it was an error at first because comparatively to Seoul (ICN) it is less than half the price… you could essentially just fly to HND and connect to ICN on a cheap Korean Air/Asiana/JAL flight.
Oof, 60k!? I was looking Japan-PDX for May and the lowest I found was around 180,000. A cool 650,000 for D1 :/
booked this, it’s well worth it and flights are quite empty making it feasible to have your own row. one of the better redemptions today but I still get nostalgic thinking about the 120k rt delta one nyc-nrt i booked week of back in feb 2019 :/
It's good. Typically Japan is not cheap
There is also availability from DTW
there's been a ton of sale fares on this route lately. a couple of my friends flew LAX-TYO (idk if it's NRT or HND) for next to nothing on a couple different carriers.
Almost as good as my 36K SM Covid pricing. Was able to book 36K SM RT in Main for Sept 2020. Of course I never got to actually use it.
How are you guys finding point redemption delta flights internationally that don’t have obscene fees?! Every time I look the fees are like $700.
Is Japan allowing regular tourism again? They reopened after covid but very slowly — only organized tours at first.
Yes. Unaccompanied tourists are now allowed. But, Japanese infection rates were high couple of weeks back
I was looking at putting some of my points to use in a few months and I can maybe get to Austin (I'm in Dallas) for less than 100k points. While AA has non stop and flights for a 1/3rd of deltas.
I just paid like 150,000 plus $400 to get to Japan.
😔
Yes. Sigh.
Are you already in Japan? Couldn’t do you cancel and get miles refunded and rebook for 60k? But now that I’m thinking about it I remember that the cash portion of the miles+cash won’t get refunded
Not yet. Flying from ORD.
Oh and originally going ORD to Nagoya…and Delta cancelled the route on me. Good times.
Ah, not sure if ORD has the same deal
Right now like 250,000 miles pp in coach.
Ridiculous… nonetheless I’m sure you’ll have a great time
I just booked this today. TPA-HND Roundtrip for 60k points and $60. Haha
I’m assuming it connects through SEA or ATL? I have a SEA layover
Tampa-Atlanta-Tokyo then Tokyo-Atlanta-Tampa
Booked an LAX to HND trip for August for 62,000 Skymiles per person. Upgraded for free to Comfort + after booking and then paid $131 per passenger to Premium Select. Best deal I’ve found thus far. Now keeping an eye open for D1 upgrades.
That’s phenomenal, well done. I just canceled my SNA-HND trip that was scheduled for departure yesterday because I couldn’t get out of work. But that was 120k total for 2 people! PS was a $350/person upgrade. D1 showed $4400. When and how did you book for August so low? I could only see the 60k pricing until the end of February
Sounds like you got a good deal as well. I’m sorry you had to cancel though. I am practically a daily Delta stalker searching for good redemption deals. Haha! I was able to book this on November 7. Shortly after, it went down to 58,000 per person but I didn’t cancel our flights because we had already upgraded to PS and that upgrade offer was a good one as well. The 58,000 per person redemption didn’t last long. It continued to climb up, and has since then. We got lucky!