{"id":343106,"date":"2026-01-05T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-cost-upgrade-first-class-delta-air-lines\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:00:17","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-upgrade-to-first-class-on-delta-air-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=343106","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does It Cost To Upgrade To First Class On Delta Air Lines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much does it cost to upgrade to Delta First or business class for domestic flights on <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>? Like other carriers based in the Americas, Delta does not offer a true first class fare, and business class is its highest fare. However, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2024481\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-domestic-first-class-guide\/\" >Delta does have a fare class called &#8220;Delta First.&#8221;<\/a><\/span> Unlike the first class of international airlines, this is Delta&#8217;s premium class for domestic flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of upgrading varies massively, but it helps to be an elite member and book a lower class fare and wait for an upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,565,1453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-first-class"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343107,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343106\/revisions\/343107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}