Delhi to Riyadh on points
The cheapest seat is economy: 9,000 points with Saudia Alfursan. Business from 30,000 with American Airlines AAdvantage.
- Economy
- 9,000
- Saudia Alfursan
- Business
- 30,000
- American Airlines AAdvantage
Prices checked 11 sources
Delhi to Riyadh at a glance
Delhi (DEL) to Riyadh (RUH) is 3,037 km (1,887 mi) great-circle. We price 21 one-way award options on it across 11 programmes: 12 read off a published chart and 9 estimates.
The seats priced here fly on Saudia, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Air India Express.
Which card gets you there
The economy seat takes 9,000 points with Saudia Alfursan. The easiest way to get them with a card a new cardholder can get today: 54,000 RBL Reward Points, moved at 6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy.
- Economy, 9,000 points with Saudia Alfursan. Best way in: RBL World Safari Plus, 54,000 RBL Reward Points at 6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy, ₹1.50 per point landed. Every way into Saudia Alfursan (11)
- Business, 30,000 points with American Airlines AAdvantage. Best way in: RBL World Safari Plus, 180,000 RBL Reward Points at 6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy, ₹1.50 per point landed. Every way into American Airlines AAdvantage (11)
Every option
| Programme and cabin | Points | Price | Cash surcharge | Total at our value | Flies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudia Alfursan, economy | 9,000 | Verified, cheapest | not published | ₹9,000 | Saudia nonstop (DEL–RUH) — Alfursan 13-zone own-metal chart (verified current) |
| Saudia Alfursan, business | 34,000 | Verified | not published | ₹34,000 | Saudia nonstop (DEL–RUH) — Alfursan 13-zone own-metal chart (verified current) |
| Air India Maharaja Points, economy | ~12,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹12,000 | Air India Express nonstop (not Star Alliance), Value tier |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue, economy | ~15,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹15,000 | Saudia nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic) |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue, business | ~30,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹30,000 | Saudia nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic) |
| Etihad Guest, economy | ~15,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹15,000 | Etihad via AUH (one stop) — Promo seats, dynamic |
| Etihad Guest, business | ~35,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹35,000 | Etihad via AUH (one stop) — Promo seats, dynamic |
| American Airlines AAdvantage, economy | 17,500 | Verified | not published | ₹17,500 | Qatar Airways via Doha or Oman Air via Muscat (oneworld) — AAdvantage region award |
| American Airlines AAdvantage, business | 30,000 | Verified, cheapest | not published | ₹30,000 | Qatar Airways via Doha or Oman Air via Muscat (oneworld) — AAdvantage region award |
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair), economy | 19,000 | Verified | not published | ₹19,000 | Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld) — two segments, band-priced |
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair), business | 38,500 | Verified | not published | ₹38,500 | Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld) — two segments, band-priced |
| Oman Air Sindbad, economy | 20,000 | Verified | not published | ₹20,000 | Oman Air via MCT — Sindbad own-metal award, two sectors |
| Oman Air Sindbad, business | 40,000 | Verified | not published | ₹40,000 | Oman Air via MCT — Sindbad own-metal award, two sectors |
| China Eastern Miles, economy | ~25,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹21,250 | Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — China Eastern Eastern Miles |
| China Eastern Miles, business | ~45,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹38,250 | Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — China Eastern Eastern Miles |
| Delta SkyMiles, economy | ~22,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹22,000 | Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic) |
| Delta SkyMiles, business | ~60,000 est. | Estimate | not published | ₹60,000 | Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic) |
| Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles, economy | 35,000 | Verified | not published | ₹35,000 | Saudia DEL–RUH nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles |
| Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles, business | 70,000 | Verified | not published | ₹70,000 | Saudia DEL–RUH nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles |
| SAS EuroBonus, economy | 48,000 | Verified | not published | ₹43,200 | SkyTeam metal (Saudia), India→the Gulf — SAS EuroBonus |
| SAS EuroBonus, business | 96,000 | Verified | not published | ₹86,400 | SkyTeam metal (Saudia), India→the Gulf — SAS EuroBonus |
Total = points × what we value that programme's points at, plus the cash surcharge (counted ₹0 where not published). An estimate (~) never counts as the cheapest.
Our take on this route
406,930 passengers flew Delhi–Riyadh across DGCA's latest four published quarters. Saudia flies DEL–RUH nonstop, and Alfursan's 13-zone own-metal table prices Delhi to anywhere in the Kingdom at 9,000 economy and 34,000 business one-way — the same Reward level Jeddah costs. The cheapest verified business seat on this route is 30,000 via American AAdvantage, and economy starts at 9,000 via Saudia Alfursan: AAdvantage's flat India→Middle East cell books Qatar Airways via Doha or Oman Air via Muscat, both on the way, so a one-stop beats Saudia's nonstop business by 4,000 miles, while in economy the nonstop is also the cheapest seat. Alfursan is reachable from an Indian card (SBI Travel Credits at 2:1, or a Marriott hop). Avios on Qatar (19,000 / 38,500), Sindbad's own two-sector sum via Muscat (20,000 / 40,000), and Vietnam Airlines LotusMiles (35,000 / 70,000) and SAS EuroBonus (48,000 / 96,000) on the Saudia nonstop are the other published prices; Etihad via Abu Dhabi and Air India Express's own DEL–RUH nonstop on Maharaja are labelled estimates. 21 options, 12 of them published chart cells.
Programme by programme
What each programme charges, which airline flies the seat, and the chart we read it from. 9 of the 21 prices are estimates for programmes that publish no chart.
The best way into each programme 11 programmes
- Best way into Saudia Alfursan, American Airlines AAdvantage and Delta SkyMiles: RBL World Safari Plus, RBL Reward Points at 6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy, ₹1.50 per point landed.
- Best way into Air India Maharaja Points, Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) and Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles: RBL World Safari Plus, RBL Reward Points at 3:1, ₹0.75 per point landed.
- Best way into Air France-KLM Flying Blue: HDFC Infinia Metal, HDFC Reward Points at 1:1, ₹1.00 per point landed.
- Best way into Etihad Guest: Axis Magnus, Axis EDGE Reward Points at 5:2, ₹1.00 per point landed.
- Best way into Oman Air Sindbad: HDFC Infinia Metal, HDFC Reward Points at 5.33:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL), ₹5.33 per point landed.
- Best way into China Eastern Miles: Axis Magnus, Axis EDGE Reward Points at 25:1 via Hilton Honors, ₹10.00 per point landed.
- Best way into SAS EuroBonus: RBL World Safari Plus, RBL Reward Points at 21:1 via Radisson Rewards, ₹5.25 per point landed.
Saudia Alfursan
Every cabin
Saudia nonstop (DEL–RUH) — Alfursan 13-zone own-metal chart (verified current)
Saudia SkyTeam
Alfursan own-metal REWARD level, one-way, from the 13-zone chart on the live official miles-redemption page (fetched through a renderer 2026-07-26 — plain fetches get an Imperva interstitial; spec: docs/research/hub-grid/specs/saudia-alfursan.json). Delhi sits in Sub-continent A (Pakistan + North India — the chart footnote names Mumbai, Delhi and Lucknow), and the chart prices zone to Saudi Arabia, so Riyadh costs exactly what Jeddah costs from Delhi. Reward+ doubles the price for wider seat access. Saudia is the only SkyTeam metal on India–Saudi nonstops; India routes fly two-class metal, so there is no First.
Economy: 9,000 points
Checked · saudia.com
Business: 34,000 points
Checked · saudia.com
Saudia Alfursan: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Saudia Alfursan
Air India Maharaja Points
Economy: ~12,000 est. points
Air India Express nonstop (not Star Alliance), Value tier
Air India Express
Riyadh sits in Maharaja's flat Middle-East tier and Air India Express flies DEL–RUH nonstop — no hub, no connection. An estimate, so Saudia's verified 9,000 nonstop on Alfursan is the price you can count on. Air India Express is economy-only, so no business award here.
Estimate: Air India publishes no award chart. How we estimate Air India Maharaja Points
Checked · magnify.club
Air India Maharaja Points: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Air India Maharaja Points
Air France-KLM Flying Blue
Every cabin
Saudia nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Saudia SkyTeam
Economy: ~15,000 est. points
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this one-segment routing bands to 15,000 economy (DEL–RUH 3,037 km → 15,000 = 15,000 economy). Partner awards pass the operating carrier's surcharges and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished.
Estimate: Flying Blue publishes no chart, but prices PARTNER awards PER SEGMENT — One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024 on the Oman Air launch: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway". This row rides Saudia's own nonstop (a Flying Blue SkyTeam partner redemption — Flying Blue runs ONE partner engine over SkyTeam and non-alliance metal alike), so it is banded segment by segment: DEL–RUH 3,037 km → 15,000 = 15,000 economy. Bands are the desk's fit to published Flying Blue partner datapoints (docs/research/hub-grid/specs/flying-blue-partners.json perSegmentBands), with economy at half of business above 1,200 km. A fitted band, not a chart cell — dates and demand move the real number.
Checked · princeoftravel.com
Business: ~30,000 est. points
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this one-segment routing bands to 30,000 business (DEL–RUH 3,037 km → 30,000 = 30,000 business). Partner awards pass the operating carrier's surcharges and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished.
Estimate: Flying Blue publishes no chart, but prices PARTNER awards PER SEGMENT — One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024 on the Oman Air launch: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway". This row rides Saudia's own nonstop (a Flying Blue SkyTeam partner redemption — Flying Blue runs ONE partner engine over SkyTeam and non-alliance metal alike), so it is banded segment by segment: DEL–RUH 3,037 km → 30,000 = 30,000 business. Bands are the desk's fit to published Flying Blue partner datapoints (docs/research/hub-grid/specs/flying-blue-partners.json perSegmentBands), with economy at half of business above 1,200 km. A fitted band, not a chart cell — dates and demand move the real number.
Checked · princeoftravel.com
Air France-KLM Flying Blue: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Air France-KLM Flying Blue
Etihad Guest
Every cabin
Etihad via AUH (one stop) — Promo seats, dynamic
Etihad Airways
Estimate: Etihad Guest Promo seat starting level for the ~1,915-mile flown itinerary DEL–AUH–RUH (1,415 + 500 mi), read off Etihad's last published one-way distance-band structure: the 1,501–2,000-mile band, 15,000 economy / 35,000 business. Etihad publishes no award chart today and pricing lives in its Miles Calculator, so fixed-rate space is limited and real quotes often run well above this floor.
Economy: ~15,000 est. points
Etihad flies Delhi–Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi–Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi sits on the way, but Guest prices Promo seats off demand and publishes no Riyadh datapoint. The Alfursan and AAdvantage rows on this page are fixed; this one is a floor that moves.
Checked · awardfares.com
Business: ~35,000 est. points
A dynamic floor plus Etihad's carrier charges, against AAdvantage's fixed 30,000 for business on this pair. Check the calculator quote, then the cash fare, before moving points.
Checked · awardfares.com
Etihad Guest: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Etihad Guest
American Airlines AAdvantage
Every cabin
Qatar Airways via Doha or Oman Air via Muscat (oneworld) — AAdvantage region award
Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
Economy: 17,500 points
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart, and India to the Middle East is one flat cell: 17,500 economy one-way, the same from Delhi as from anywhere else in India. The connection costs nothing extra and stays on the way (DEL–DOH–RUH 1.00×, DEL–MCT–RUH 1.03× the great circle). In economy Saudia's own nonstop on Alfursan (9,000) is 8,500 cheaper; this is the oneworld seat for an AAdvantage balance.
Checked · aa.com
Business: 30,000 points
30,000 for business one-way off the same flat India→Middle East cell, on Qatar Airways via Doha or Oman Air via Muscat — 4,000 under Alfursan's 34,000 for Saudia's nonstop, at the price of a connection.
Checked · aa.com
American Airlines AAdvantage: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into American Airlines AAdvantage
Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair)
Every cabin
Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld) — two segments, band-priced
Qatar Airways oneworld
Economy: 19,000 points
12,500 (DEL–DOH, 1,584 mi, Zone 3) plus 6,500 (DOH–RUH, 308 mi, Zone 1) = 19,000 Avios: Avios prices each segment on its own distance band and sums them. AAdvantage books the same two Qatar flights for 17,500.
Checked · milelion.com
Business: 38,500 points
24,500 (DEL–DOH, Zone 3) plus 14,000 (DOH–RUH, Zone 1) = 38,500 Avios in business. The short Doha–Riyadh hop still costs a full Zone-1 business price, which is why AAdvantage's flat 30,000 for the same flights wins by 8,500.
Checked · milelion.com
Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair): what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair)
Oman Air Sindbad
Every cabin
Oman Air via MCT — Sindbad own-metal award, two sectors
Oman Air oneworld
Economy: 20,000 points
Sindbad prices each sector off Muscat and sums them: 12,000 (DEL–MCT) plus 8,000 (MCT–RUH) = 20,000 one-way, both cells quoted by Oman Air's own mileage calculator. Taxes and carrier charges are extra. AAdvantage's 17,500 on the same Oman Air flights is 2,500 cheaper; Sindbad is the answer for a balance already sitting there.
Checked · sindbad.omanair.com
Business: 40,000 points
22,000 (DEL–MCT) plus 18,000 (MCT–RUH) = 40,000 in business, per sector from Oman Air's calculator — 10,000 over AAdvantage's flat 30,000 for the same Oman Air seats.
Checked · sindbad.omanair.com
Oman Air Sindbad: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Oman Air Sindbad
China Eastern Miles
Every cabin
Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — China Eastern Eastern Miles
Saudia SkyTeam
China Eastern prices its own metal plus SkyTeam partners. North Asia is its genuine ex-India strength; the Gulf estimates off the nearest published China-anchored band (Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin matrix). All one-way.
Estimate: Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin award matrix — this level estimates off the nearest published China-anchored band, as the row note states, not a verified chart price.
Economy: ~25,000 est. points
Checked · upgradedpoints.com
Business: ~45,000 est. points
Checked · upgradedpoints.com
China Eastern Miles: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into China Eastern Miles
Delta SkyMiles
Every cabin
Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)
Saudia SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~22,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to the Gulf; peak dates and 2026 partner hikes can swing business 1.5–3×.
Estimate: Delta SkyMiles is fully dynamic (no chart since 2015); ~22,000/60,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→the Gulf on Saudia's own nonstop metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Economy: ~22,000 est. points
Checked · awardfares.com
Business: ~60,000 est. points
Checked · awardfares.com
Delta SkyMiles: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Delta SkyMiles
Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles
Every cabin
Saudia DEL–RUH nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles
Saudia SkyTeam
Economy: 35,000 points
Per-segment chart; nonstop = one segment. Saudia flies DEL–RUH nonstop, so LotusMiles bills exactly ONE cell — Southwest Asia × Middle East = 35,000, the same cell Saudia's BOM–JED nonstop bills, verified against the official SkyTeam partner table effective 1-Aug-2025 (Saudi Arabia is named in its Middle East zone). One-way.
Checked · vietnamairlines.com
Business: 70,000 points
Per-segment chart; nonstop = one segment. Saudia flies DEL–RUH nonstop, so LotusMiles bills exactly ONE cell — Southwest Asia × Middle East = 70,000, the same cell Saudia's BOM–JED nonstop bills, verified against the official SkyTeam partner table effective 1-Aug-2025 (Saudi Arabia is named in its Middle East zone). One-way.
Checked · vietnamairlines.com
Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles
SAS EuroBonus
Every cabin
SkyTeam metal (Saudia), India→the Gulf — SAS EuroBonus
Saudia SkyTeam
SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. Full note on the SAS EuroBonus page
Economy: 48,000 points
Checked · flysas.com
Business: 96,000 points
Checked · flysas.com
SAS EuroBonus: what the points are worth and how to get them · Every way into SAS EuroBonus
Cash on top
None of the 11 programmes here publishes a cash figure for this route, so the totals above count it as ₹0; government taxes are still payable on every award. How we count cash on top
Open this route in British Airways' Flight Finder. It fills in your search (DEL to RUH on 26 Jan 2027, which you change there); it does not show award space, and no link on this page can.
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Questions
How many points is an economy award from Delhi to Riyadh?
The cheapest verified economy seat is 9,000 points with Saudia Alfursan one way, read off the published chart on 26 Jul 2026. 6 programmes an Indian card reaches publish a verified economy price here; at our point values the same seat costs ₹9,000 through the cheapest and ₹43,200 through the dearest.
How many points is a business-class award from Delhi to Riyadh?
The cheapest verified business seat is 30,000 points with American Airlines AAdvantage one way, read off the published chart on 6 Aug 2026. 6 programmes an Indian card reaches publish a verified business price here; at our point values the same seat costs ₹30,000 through the cheapest and ₹86,400 through the dearest.
Which credit card points get me from Delhi to Riyadh?
For the economy seat (9,000 points with Saudia Alfursan), 11 ways in from Indian card points reach Saudia Alfursan. The easiest for a new cardholder is 54,000 RBL Reward Points, moved at 6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy, earned on RBL World Safari Plus and RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card.
Sources
The award charts and programme pages every price above was read from, and the day we read them.
- Saudia Alfursan: saudia.com read
- Air India Maharaja Points: magnify.club read
- Air France-KLM Flying Blue: princeoftravel.com read
- Etihad Guest: awardfares.com read
- American Airlines AAdvantage: aa.com read
- Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair): milelion.com read
- Oman Air Sindbad: sindbad.omanair.com read
- China Eastern Miles: upgradedpoints.com read
- Delta SkyMiles: awardfares.com read
- Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles: vietnamairlines.com read
- SAS EuroBonus: flysas.com read