hi all,
we booked a delta flight to Milwaukee for a wedding, leaving this Thursday coming back Friday (17k miles x 2). I had meant to book the 7am flight on Friday, but only now resize that I booked the 9:48 flight, landing to LGA at 1pm Friday afternoon
I tried calling to have them change it to an earlier flight, but they want to charge me +40k miles (I'm going with my wife, so that would be 80k miles!) because that earlier flight is much more expensive now.
On google matrix, I found a delta flight leaving MKE with that 7am flight I wanted, going to Richmond with a stopover in LGA for $240, or 19k miles if booked from delta.
Question: is it crazy to book with miles, when they see that I have a later flight leaving MKE? is it even more crazy to call again and ask them to make that change for me?
or should I pay the $240 out of pocket (or is it that also risky?)