5 Tips From A Delta Airlines Reservation Agent

What’s the simplest site for locating airfares? How do I score free upgrades? Will anyone actually attempt to call my bluff once I claim a bogus bereavement fare? nobody is best suited to answer these questions than an experienced flight reservation agent.

Earlier today, one such Delta agent offered herself up to a ton of these questions during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.

Here are some highlights we cherry-picked for you

1. On the best site for looking for airfares Delta Airline 

Delta Airline Reservations the fare predictor is pure genius. Not even Delta agents have access thereto information. an in-depth second would be Skyscanner.

In general, you would like to book for six weeks to 12 weeks beforehand. Any earlier and therefore the flights won’t get on sale, any later and therefore the others will have already snapped up all the low fares. Award tickets are another animal though…

I love that Skyscanner allows you to search with the airport code “USA”. It brings up all the flights from the USA to a specific destination. Often it’s cheaper to book one ticket to the coast and a separate flight internationally. Skyscanner makes planning that easy.”

2. In response to a reader who suggests getting a cheaper flight by booking a flight where your actual destination is the layover stop and then just get off at the layover.

“That works just for one-way tickets and if you aren’t checking bags. On a roundtrip, skipping any flight within the itinerary causes all the remaining flights to cancel. So your return flight will cancel too. If you check a bag they’ll check it all the thanks to your end destination and you won’t be ready to pick it up at your ‘layover city.'”

3. On booking super far in advance

“Unless you’re booking business/first class, booking super far in advance is always a bad move. Airlines charge higher fares for those reservations. It’s just like in the tech world where the early adopters pay more.”

4. On unethical behavior that people use to score    discounts/fee waivers:

“There are many unethical ones like booking child fares for adults to urge 10-20% off or using bereavement/medical exemptions to urge cheaper last-minute fares or to urge agents to waive change fees. Delta/AirFrance/KLM requires a touch of information like a hospital name, address, and telephone number for a medical fare but they NEVER call to see abreast of it so I’m surprised more people don’t just lie around it.”

5. How to complain your way into free upgrades/miles/etc:

“After your flight, you ought to call or email (preferably the latter) and allow them to realize every single thing you didn’t enjoy about your flight (food, movie selection, rude steward, tray table didn’t work, the wifi didn’t work, etc). The airlines have a selected department to affect complaints and they’ll offer you tens of thousands of miles, free business lounge passes, travel vouchers, drink tickets, etc.”

Just call on Delta Airlines reservations  number+1-855-653-0311, and you will be on your way to solving your problems instantly.