Delta phone agents can't be relied upon to tell you what is available.
Not exact matches
Six hours of
phone calls with
Delta booking
agents (and a healthy dose of elevator music while on hold) I emerged with two sets of tickets for 37,500 Skymiles each.
Poorly trained
agents would attempt to explain the situation, and after 15 or 20 minutes on the
phone, the customer would hang up in frustration, keeping
Delta from even recouping the telephone booking fee.
The
Delta agent will make your bookings upon receipt of your request and if flights are available and confirmed, the
Delta agent will call you on the contact
phone number you have provided to verify some credit card security information before the award ticket will be issued and the miles deducted from your account.
I like booking Virgin Australia award flights online, rather than with
Delta agents, because
Delta's telephone
agents have been known to book the wrong inventory class on these awards since they're not always very familiar with them, with folks thinking they're getting business class but actually having
phone agents put them in coach.