While award flight costs for Delta can be quite volatile, 70K miles is enough for approximately three round - trip domestic economy awards, or one long haul international economy award.
Not exact matches
While it's possible to maximize value further and take advantage of the 10 % Redemption Bonus right away by booking
flights and splitting hotel nights into separate bookings over the course of a few days, we'd keep things simple in this case by recommending Tiffany's husband apply his bonus toward the taxes and fees on the Alaska
award bookings, wiping out these
costs entirely, and having Tiffany apply her bonus toward the total hotel booking at Hotels.com.
For example, a roundtrip
award flight between Ft. Lauderdale and St. Thomas
costs 17,400 points and $ 11.20,
while the revenue fare for the same
flight is $ 300.
The taxes on your roundtrip
award flight using Avios on Aer Lingus to Dublin will only be around $ 150,
while flights routed from Heathrow
cost nearly twice as much in fees.
While economy class
awards aren't changing much, there will be some significant increases in the
cost of business and first class
awards on American Airlines» partners —
flights on American Airlines have their own
award chart.
So,
while the minimum
cost of a North American
award flight on other major airlines is 25,000 miles (no matter what the city pairs are), if you use Avios and the distance of your
flight does not exceed 2,000 miles, you can get a great deal.
UK - based flyers will see a 50 % increase in
award costs when booking Delta One
flights to the West Coast
while US flyers based on the West Coast see a 35 % increase in the
cost of a Delta One
award to the UK / Europe.
This is not surprising since the AAdvantage
award chart allows you to mix and match partners, so it is more difficult to target
flights on Alaska and raise their
costs while leaving other partners untouched.
A roundtrip Delta
flight from New York City to Los Angeles
costs $ 738 (before taxes)
while a Standard
Award flight through the Delta SkyMiles ® frequent travel program
costs 40,000 miles.
While United charges 35,000 miles and Delta starts at 40,000 miles for business - class
flights to this region, American
awards cost 30,000 miles each way.
For example, an
award flight from Dallas to Cancun is only 7,500 Avios points,
while the same
flight will
cost 12,500 American Airlines miles.