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As I blogged about before, I have booked in 1st class a historic flight from South Bend International Airport or SBN as it is known in airport code.
I have been flying from SBN for decades. I have flown lots of turbo prop planes like the Northwest SAAB’s, Delta ATR’s and so many CRJ200’s that I am sad to say I bet half of my million miler status (almost there) will be earned on these tiny planes.
But now things have changed (well are changing anyway). We now have 1x a day in and out a jet that has 1st class seats serviced by one of the many Delta connection carriers, in this case ExpressJet! I don’t really care what feeder it is just the fact that for the first time EVER, as a scheduled route, I will be sitting in 1st class on a Delta “painted” jet from SBN (I say scheduled because for ND football games there have been larger jets now and then).
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When I learned about this I did the Pharrell Williams – “happy” dance and did not stop smiling for almost 24 hours. To that extent I even went as far as blowing 50,000 Skymiles to book this round trip and I could not be more thrilled at this redemption – this is HISTORY being made for South Bend, Indiana!
Now I am not “just” flying to Detroit for the day as my 50,000 Skymiles can take me anywhere I want to go and I will be flying onward in 1st class. Plus, since I am after all a Delta blogger, the price for the ticket was just over $500 so I am testing Pay with Miles from holding a Delta AMEX card in 1st class to see if I do earn points under Skymiles2015 (there has been MUCH conflicting and changing info on Delta.com).
I am counting the days till takeoff! Want to join me on a historic flight? – René
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Ha, even little ole CRW has a mainline(no regional carrier!!) A319 once a day.
Welcome to F from home!
On a related note, I am very anxious to hear how PWM credits(or not) to MQM/D/Miles.
I just realized where my normally scheduled CRJ700 went. On 3/2 mine got downgraded to E145
Clicked post to quick. Since I already did few PWM flights, all posted as they supposed to for me.
@Jakub – Can you give us MUCH more info please. Were the coach? Were they 1st? Were they 50% PWM or 100% PWM? Were they booked in 2014 or in 2015? Were the Skymiles 100% paid out on the “X” of your status? Were they lower due to the points? Please give us much more feedback. Oh and sorry I stole your bird 😉
I’ll join you, as long as I’m not paying!
@Mark – Sorry, I spent all my Skymiles this week 😉 http://deltapoints.boardingarea.com/2015/02/10/burned-%c2%be-million-skymiles-level-1-since-friday-please-take-notice/
@jakub…yes please Jackub…more info please. I wish to do this on an upcoming flight and really am a little afraid. also did you get medallion miles as those are the ones i need since i fly so little. thanks
Congratulations Renee, now see if you can get one scheduled for FWA. We’d all be grateful.
Robert – Agreed! Now you have to also agree it is funny they are NOT flying this on the 1+hr SBN-ATL or SBN-MSP but the shortest SBN-DTW route. Airlines are truly crazy.
So excited for this! I’m booked on it on May 3, and I couldn’t be more excited! Been flying from SBN on the small CRJs for too long.