There are quite a few changes at Air France-KLM’s Flying Blue loyalty program, and they’re both good and bad news. For example, we’ve seen stopovers introduced on awards, though we’ve also seen further restrictions on first class awards. Here’s the latest program change, which is intended to make the program easier to understand.
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Confusion all the way around. Fair enough. And time for an experiment. So I chose a random off-peak date to see what DFW-CDG in Economy costs. The "availability" mini-calendar said 70,000 miles one-way (not good!) but then when you actually click on it, the now "standard" lowest very off-peak price of only 20,000 miles one-way still shows up just as it has been showing up since roughly early September. The cash component seems as though (if memory serves) it might have gone up $10 and is now $97 one-way. You can make of that what you will. For me, it means all is not lost. In Economy.
As mentioned in other recent articles, I cannot find any awards below 70k biz one way from the US to/from Europe and looked at various routings from March-November next year. Yet I've an upcoming trip booked 10 months back from ATL to Warsaw that at 55k biz one way. Anyone been able to find any 55k availability?
I was looking in September/October for something east cost to Europe in September 2023 and I didn't see any 55k availability either. I could find 70k fairly consistently.
Flying blue has been pretty worthless to me. With the exception of the monthly promo awards, I have never seen a booking that wasn't outrageously expensive.
I see that despite Australia and New Zealand being clearly in the FB AsiaPacific zone, neither are listed in the countries list.
Also think it bizzare to see Greenland listed in North America! Denmark may take issue with that!
Nice to know that according to the Award Zones list, Australia and NZ don't even exist.
I had to read too far down the page to find this. Additionally, did anyone take notice of the number of miles required in the Asia-Pacific to Asia-Pacific zone on the award chart? Odd, no?
I booked 4 people to Croatia and a return from Denmark for ~100k and $250 pp for next summer.
I did the same several years ago from the west coast to Sardinia and a return from Venice for *5* people.
FlyingBlue consistently has fair prices and amazing availability. Plus, you can take advantage of 25% bonus transfers from Amex and now CapOne.
So, I'm not sure where you can do better than that for travel to Europe in J.
I few months ago I noticed fares in J for ~55k between IAD/ORD and WAW/Krakow for summer 2023.
I put all my eggs in the flying blue basket. B of A offer got me 70,000 miles and 100XP Bought DFW-LIS PE for 1050 on the Amex promotion (20K bonus). Upgraded to Biz one way for 30K Miles, the other way for $430. 1500 plus 5k miles biz to Europe not bad. (50XP)
Bought 1 Biz ticket RT DFW DXB in April 3000. (114 XP)
Bought 2 Biz tickets RT DFW DXB in June for 2300 euros each using a VPN. (108XP) - This will get me to Gold.
Used 70K miles for 2 RT DFW MRS in July economy. Hoping my Gold status will get me first in line to upgrade to Biz with miles.
So, one RT Biz to Europe, 2 RT Economy to Europe, 3 RT Biz tickets to DXB for 9 grand and 75K miles.
No way you can pull that off on AA at DFW for anywhere near that.