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Free Delta Flights For Jessie’s 2019 Swim Meet And A Savings Of $900

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I just booked Jessie and my flights to St. Petersburg for her annual swim meet. We are flying in and out of Tampa and I used 36,500 Delta SkyMiles per roundtrip flight.

When I went to book the tickets, I needed 73,000 miles but only had 70,000 miles. (Recall I got a big influx of 60,000 SkyMiles last year when I got the American Express Gold Delta SkyMiles Business Card)

I easily and immediately transferred 3,000 American Express Membership Rewards points to my Delta SkyMiles account. Amex transfers to Delta at a 1:1 ratio.  The fee for this transfer was $1.80. With American Express Membership Rewards, transfers can be made with no transfer fees to hotel programs. However, when you transfer points into a U.S. airline frequent flyer program, you will be charged an excise tax offset fee of $0.0006 per point (with a maximum fee of $99). American Express states that they charge this fee to offset the federal excise tax that they must pay on transfers.

We also had to pay a tax of 11.20 per flight using the miles.  So in total the outlay for the flight was 1.80 plus 22.40, so roughly $25.

This roundtrip flight would have cost $460 per flight, or $920.  We saved practically $900 using the SkyMiles.  Based on the fact that many valuations value Delta SkyMiles about 1.2 cents per point, this was a good use of Delta SkyMiles. I used miles worth $876 for flights that would have cost $920.  However, don’t forget, I often use points and miles, even if I don’t get as good of value.  But not this time!

Excited for another swim meet trip!

K. Roth
... I saved $700 in annual fees and scored 120,000 worth of bonus points. I also got $100 off a pair of fancy headphones and $200 worth of airline gift cards. ....
D. Cohen
I am obsessed with Cindy "The Points Mom". Today she saved me 100,000 points and $1500 booking a flight...
M. Bernaducci
A huge shout out to CINDY GREENSTEIN, aka The Points Mom, for helping me book our flights to Greece using points. Money wise it would have cost $12k. I learned so much from her! Contact her. You will not be disappointed.

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