Northwest & Airline Partners
Crater Lake, Oregon

Earn Miles on Northwest, SkyTeam® & SkyMiles Airline Partners

Follow these three easy steps to earn miles when you fly on Northwest Airlines, our SkyTeam Global Alliance Partners or our other SkyMiles Airline Partners:

  1. Provide your SkyMiles account number when making your travel reservations. When flying on Northwest or any Airline Partner, you can only earn miles in one frequent flyer program. By providing your SkyMiles number, you are specifying you want to receive SkyMiles mileage credit.
  2. Verify the airline is a SkyMiles Airline Partner by using the chart below.
  3. Retain your ticket receipts and boarding passes until the correct flight mileage is credited to your SkyMiles account. A mileage credit request may be filed if miles do not post to your account after six to eight weeks.

See Complete Terms and Conditions

For complete mileage accrual details, click each partner below.

Airline Partner Earn
Banked
Miles
Earn Elite
Qualifying Miles
& Segments
Northwest Airlines and Northwest Airlink X X
SkyTeam Global Alliance Partners
Aeroflot X X
Aeromexico X X
Air France X*** X***
Alitalia X*** X***
China Southern X*** X***
Continental Airlines, Continental Express and Continental Micronesia X X***
CSA Czech Airlines X*** X***
Delta Air Lines, Delta Shuttle and Delta Connection X X**
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM cityhopper X X
Korean Air X X
SkyTeam Associates
Air Europa X X
Copa Airlines X X
Kenya Airways X  
SkyMiles Airline Partners
Air Tahiti Nui redeem only
Alaska Airlines X X
American Eagle X X*
Cebu Pacific    
China Airlines X***  
China Eastern X**  
Garuda Indonesia    
Gulfstream International Airlines partnership ended on June 14, 2009
Hawaiian Airlines X X
Jet Airways X  
Jetstar redeem only
Kingfisher Airlines X X
Malaysia Airlines X  
Malev Hungarian Airlines X X
Midwest Airlines X X
Thai AirAsia redeem only

* Elite Qualifying Miles & Segments available on NW-coded flights operated by this Airline Partner.
*** Accrual of banked miles and Elite Qualifying Miles may be restricted to less than 100% of miles flown.