Remember that
this chart prices tickets based on one - way distance, not cumulative distance.
Not exact matches
Naked
charts, support & resistance, and
price action reading is the
ticket to consistency and long term success!
While they no longer have an award
chart, you will pay similar
prices to those of the other major airlines, starting around 10,000 miles for a one - way domestic
ticket.
To figure out the
price the award
ticket should cost you'll want to consult your award
chart, in this case Delta publishes their current
charts here.
Looking at the award
chart, Aeroplan usually charges only about 1.5 — 2 times the economy
ticket price.
JetBlue utilizes a revenue - based
chart which pegs the mileage cost of an award to the cash
price of a
ticket.
They also have a reasonably
priced award
chart (although they aren't always the cheapest), and they make it relatively inexpensive to buy more miles (at least if you buy miles while
ticketing another flight).
JetBlue doesn't offer a fixed award
chart, but instead the number of miles required to fly is dependent on the current cash
price of the
ticket.
Prices are actually identical to the old award
chart — although who would book a 2,000 - mile round - the - world
ticket?
Alaska has an amazing award
chart, known for its below market award
prices for certain international premium cabin
tickets.
These
charts compare fare class bonuses, and in American's case that is built into the higher
ticket price.
Award
Tickets correspond to a fixed, zone - based award
chart, while Always Flight Award
prices depend on demand and are calculated at the time of booking.
Air Canada offers two types of award
tickets: ClassicFlight, which adhers to the standard, zone - based award
chart pricing, and Market Fare, which is pegged to the cost of cash
tickets and
priced based on demand.
Since Delta employs dynamic
pricing for its award
tickets instead of actually publishing an award
chart, the cost of award
tickets can vary greatly.
Using the multi-city search tool causes award
tickets to
price on an leg - by leg - basis instead of following United's region - based award
chart
Southwest Airlines is different than the other award programs as its award
prices are not based on an award
chart, but instead are tied to the cash
price of the
tickets.
Different award
charts, different
prices for
tickets, and different transfer ratios make it difficult to say exactly what this means for the value of Membership Rewards points.
They're pushing up mileage earning but they're capping that earning for the most expensive
tickets, while they're pushing up the cost of awards too (not just through the award
chart, err elimination of award
charts, but elimination of stopovers and refusal to fix the broken
pricing engine).
The problem is their award
prices are tied to the
price of a cash
ticket, and I can't just put a single
price in the
chart.
-LSB-...] Delta is expected to be the first to alter their award
charts to more closely align award
prices with
ticket costs.
In the coming months I believe we can expect to see a dynamic award
chart that bases mileage cost of award
tickets on the
price of purchased
tickets.
Unlike Delta, which did away with its SkyMiles awards
chart when it switched to variable award
pricing, United said it will still publish an Everyday Award
chart listing the maximum
price of a
ticket in miles, although the actual cost might be less at the time of booking.
For that kind of speeding
ticket (18 miles over — see the
chart at the top of this article for the
prices), you should be able to take traffic school to dismiss the violation.