Air France – $1,173: Minneapolis – Mauritius. Roundtrip, including all Taxes

Exotic locale [check], hard to get to [check], earn 100% Delta miles in 2014 [check], get out of the Minneapolis Winter? [check].

Mauritius. Photo: Photo: subzi73 via Flickr via Flickr, used under Creative Commons License (By 2.0)

Sample Travel Date:

• November 24th – December 2nd

Fare Availability:

• Valid for travel on the outbound through December 6th or January 10th, 2015 – March 28th, 2015. Must purchase at least 7 days in advance of departure

How to Search for Availability:

• Use ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search and use the following search criteria:

• Departing from: MSP
• Outbound Advanced Routing Code: cdg o:af
• Destination:  MRU
• Return Advanced Routing Code: o:af cdg
• (Click on Advanced Routing Codes link to enable advanced routing code input)
• Select “See calendar of lowest fares”
• Length of stay “0-7″. The maximum range is 7 days, so enter ranges like so: 0-7, 5-12, 7-14, etc.

Sample Routing:

• MSP – CDG (Paris) – MRU (Mauritius) – CDG – MSP. Make sure to select Air France flight number 460 and 463 between Paris and Mauritius to ensure 100% mileage credit with Delta.

Sample Mileage:

• 20,162 miles or 5.8 cents per mile. Air France is a member of the SkyTeam Alliance and Delta partner. This fare will earn 100% mileage with Delta as long as your take flight number 460 and 463 until end of 2014. Mileage earning for 2015 is unknown as Delta has not release its partner mileage accrual chart yet.

Get Tickets:

• Book on Orbitz using dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure “Additional search options” is selected then check “Narrow the search to my preferred airlines” and select Air France

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