Delta officially says they don’t have an award chart, but after doing tons of searches, we found very consistent pricing to the majority of regions. There are a few variations I’ll mention below the award chart, but I think it’s important to visualize award charts so you can find the good deals… That’s why I make these.
And part of this process is a very sweet added bonus: we’ll also be updating the Delta Miles Calculator very soon, which will be more interesting than ever.
In short, while their international and partner awards have a ton of pricing consistency, all their North American flights vary a lot from place to place. So for domestic flights, check back and we’ll post when that tool is updated!
In the meantime, enjoy the newly updated Delta Award Chart!
The International Delta SkyMiles SkyTeam Award Chart
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Details & Variations
Despite “not having an award chart”, SkyTeam flights with Delta Miles are very consistent. However, Delta flights still vary a bit, even on some international routes. But I was able to figure out a few consistent themes.
Although, a few things might be different than you’d assume.
I’m used to Peru being part of “South America 1”, but it was consistently priced along with Brazil and Chile. But the big variations are based on US departures.
US/ North American Variations
All of North America seems divided up. But I wanted to give an example of variations of results from New York (JFK) and LA (LAX) to a number of regions where we saw consistency from those airports to a region, but variations across the US.
Thus, I think this little US chart is actually pretty important.
Most importantly, look at the difference in prices to Hawaii!
(Also, note that the Caribbean and Mexico seem to vary city by city and therefore we’re looking at adding those to the calculator).
Europe is divided into multiple regions.
This is also important – notice that I divided Europe into 3 regions on the chart above.
Europe is consistently divided from west to east (roughly) in price, but only when coming from the US.
This seems to be a delta variation.
That is why I labeled the above award chart a “SkyTeam” award chart. Delta Miles is decently consistent on Delta with some distinct variations. But it is very consistent with SkyTeam.
Another Europe example is that there seems to be no difference for flights to Africa and North Africa unless you depart Europe.
Similarly, SE Asia can be divided up on certain examples.
Another thing to note, US to the Pacific has pretty inconsistent pricing, with some of the highest business class flights. Although, islands like Fiji might be cheaper than flights to Australia and New Zealand.
Conclusion
I’ll be doing two posts on interesting findings and updating the Delta Miles Calculator, all of which I think are plenty interesting on their own.
But for me, it’s important to have a stand-alone award chart. Therefore, I wanted to get this out and keep working on the Delta Miles Calculator.
Look for that soon!
very cool! thanks!
any sweet spots in your opinion?
Wow! This is amazing. Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you so much!
Not frequently (ever) available, but the price from North America to the Pacific (or at least Australia) appears to still be 95k, contrary to the 175k referenced in the chart. Found one seat on May 17, 2017.
This is a great resource, and I will use it frequently. Wish Delta would do something this simple…I spent better part of a week finding what I thought were saver level awards to/from US to Hawaii @65k each way that I could feed to Korean Air or Air France agent. I thought your 40k business one way was an error, but it turns out that I had only struggled to find the low level award (level 2/5) instead of the non-existent saver level for business.
The number for business between the US and South Asia (guessing that’s India) is incorrect. The price was never 80K. It used to be 70K and is now 97.5K (another stealth devaluation).
Thanks. Just what I needed.
I always used this, but some of our numbers are different. what the hell happened to biz the Pacific region?
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/61118
JB
Drew’s chart is incorrect for the N. America – Pacific region pairing in business class.
I suspect it’s also incorrect for Hawaii-Pacific. I doubt that it’s really 40k more than the already ludicrous NA-Pacific price. You’d be better off (assuming you could find the flights) flying to Mexico and then on to Australia.
I fly out of MSP and I find it hard to get a price to FCO or ATH next summer that isn’t 250,000-330,000 miles R/T.
I have to fly MSP-GRR every year for Xmas, and that’s been 50K miles since February.
The cheapest North America – Southern South America is 62.500 miles in Business, via MEX (partner flights, AM)
Are these miles for one-way or RT?
I am looking for the lowest delta sky miles for a family of 6 to travel R/T
from Atlanta to Hawaii. Any help would be appreciated
Are the miles quotes for Delta awards one-way or round trip for international travel? Thanks for responding!
I’m also wondering if the tickets are one-way or round trip?
These are one way prices!
Also a sweet spot I’ve found is Japan -> Korea (KE flies KIX/HND/NRT to GMP) for 7.5K/15K Y/J. Relatively low surcharges and a great way to fly KE in Biz!
I just booked first class from lax-hnl for 45k but my origination city is dfw. I didn’t see any first class saver awards from dfw but economy seats are available. is it combine the award by choosing economy from dfw-lax and then from lax-hnl on first?
Just booked award flight from FNT to Grand Cayman- 28K miles RT. Sale right now on award flights to Caribbean for Medallion members; 7k less miles than the flight cost two days ago
So I am going on a cruise June 1029 starting in Copenhagen and when I put in cash and miles it states there is know way to do this option. Only all money or all points why?
This is great for single segments, butdo you have any advice for dealing with married segment restrictions?
Example: I see saver availability on CI for the individual segments US->Taipei and then Taipei->Japan, but Delta won’t find the whole itinerary online.
I have read if I call Delta, they’ll force me to pay the price for both segments even though it should be one award (3 hour layover). Do you know any ways around that?
Thanks so much for all the Delta research – massively helpful to many of us! Love it.
I have 68,750 Skymiles and my daughter just got a scholarship to a summer program in Prague. Delta today told me it would cost over 100,000 miles to get her to Europe. Jeesh. Ideas?
I am trying to find Delta award mileage chart from US to Indian sub continent economy or business class and one way or round trip. Can any one help