It’s not the same. The booking systems you are referring to are based on paying cash and have all of the airlines inventory available.
Delta offers two types of inventory - regular inventory and “award” inventory. Award inventory is only available to alliance partners, is very limited and you can only pay with points.
You can’t even buy the flight at that price with Delta Skymiles.
For instance, I can’t pay cash even if I wanted to and get a discounted price for the flight in question via KLM. I have to use points. Those prices aren’t available via online booking systems.
It’s not a “booking system”. It’s a partner airline.
https://www.klm.com/
Just like you can book a Virgin airlines route via Delta.
https://thepointsguy.com/guide/airline-alliances/
KLM is an airline.
Getting tickets for a flight on any airline uses a booking system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system (optional) vs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_reservations_system (required)
It’s not the same. The booking systems you are referring to are based on paying cash and have all of the airlines inventory available.
Delta offers two types of inventory - regular inventory and “award” inventory. Award inventory is only available to alliance partners, is very limited and you can only pay with points.
You can’t even buy the flight at that price with Delta Skymiles.
For instance, I can’t pay cash even if I wanted to and get a discounted price for the flight in question via KLM. I have to use points. Those prices aren’t available via online booking systems.
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