Use Delta or KLM / AirFrance to find
saver level award ticket availability, then book the ticket on Korean Air's website.
If Global Services member books a cash ticket, she or he may bring along a companion for the cost of
a saver level award ticket.
Miles earned on your Platinum Delta SkyMiles card can be redeemed for a variety of awards, but the best value is realized on
saver level award tickets.
If you're not familiar with how award space works, this post about American Airlines
saver level award tickets gives a little more info (which applies to most airlines).
Not exact matches
Regardless of what happens to the cash price of a United
ticket, an
award ticket will cost one of two possible amounts: a «
saver»
level price in miles, and a «standard» price.
These Reduced Mileage
Awards can save you up to 7,500 miles per person on round - trip
tickets purchased at the
saver level.
Saver level economy
award tickets for domestic flights can offer good value for your miles, but they may be difficult to find.
Unfortunately, this means it would cost 160,000 Delta SkyMiles to book an
award ticket, which is double the
saver level mileage cost of 80,000 miles.
There are three types of economy
awards (super
saver,
saver and refundable) and two types of first class
awards (refundable and nonrefundable), along with two
levels of Money + Miles
tickets.
Since the cost of
award tickets are based on the price of the Value fare, you'll get the same 2.89 cents per point for any route unless the cheapest
Saver level fare is available.
~ 13,000 points for two
tickets is a much better deal than 50,000 miles for
award seats on United (which didn't have any
saver -
level award space, that day or the next).
This is assuming
award tickets are available at the
saver level.
It rarely makes sense to book an
award ticket at anything other than the lowest mileage rates, often called
Saver levels.
Now, Delta is notoriously bad for
award flights, because they often don't make anything available at the lowest
level saver tickets.
Here's a predicament I find myself in for a summer trip to Hawaii: Megan and I are going to Kauai and Maui, there is
saver -
level award space for only the outbound portion of our journey, we're both trying to get status with Alaska's Mileage Plan, and the
tickets are ridiculously expensive (Scenario 1).