Air France-KLM Flying Blue is one of the most useful loyalty programs for redeeming points for long haul, premium cabin travel. Up until now, there have been all kinds of ways to acquire Flying Blue miles, ranging from buying them outright, to moving them over from a transferable points currency.
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How soon do the first miles post? If you have to wait more than a few days, that award ticket you need 15,000 miles for may very well be gone.
Just tried it and got the miles within a minute. Used them immediately to book an award flight. Seems to work as expected.
"You can already buy XPs for cash by buying SAF on AFKL flights."
Yup, I'm aware of that. One can also get XPs by donating to certain charities.
That said, my point still stands: The offer outlined here would be a lot more attractive if XPs were somehow bundled in.
I could be wrong but I don’t think there is a commercial interest to do this. Using miles is explicitly forgoing status points on most airlines.
There could be a risk of passengers paying for miles, using those miles for outsized value, and then receiving status benefits on top. It would be essentially saying to passengers that you should be checking mile prices and comparing with cash prices always, and you’ll get XP regardless. It just gives incentives to use miles more than to buy revenue tickets.
Excellent. Will subscribe later today. Flying blue is a pretty solid program all things considered.
Yeah I'm not understanding why you would expect XP from this -- that would be a cherry tree on the cake. Lifemiles doesn't offer XP with points sub.
"...I'm not understanding why you would expect XP from this..."
Never said I expected anything, at all, anywhere.
Anyway, back on topic, the offer outlined here would be a lot more attractive if XPs were somehow bundled in.
Yes, there is a commercial interest, and we all understand that taking award flights usually entails forgoing elite points. As you noted, not always. AS award some elite points, and on their own metal UA and QF [if you qualify for their points club 'tier'] also do. Allowing status earn from award flights, or the lack of it, is already factored into the price airlines, in this case FB, charge to buy miles.
That doesn't detract from @TravelinWilly's point that an XP sweetener would be nice. It would, but you'd end up paying for it one way or another.
Buyed over 80'000 miles at 900 strong european currency in 48 hrs. .
Enough for o/w in j fom far-east.
Thx
It's worth mentioning that it is only 187 EUR compared to the 227.80 USD. Currently 1 EUR is around 1.05 USD.
You are right, you forego status points. However, when you buy a business class ticket on points, you get most of the status benefits anyway.
For those few of us who are Platinum for Life, status points do not make a difference at all.
All in all I think this is a pretty good deal
According to what I have read on the Air France website after the 14 day grace period you cannot cancel the subscription for 3 months. In other words you have to purchase the first 3 months before you will be able to cancel.