The Air France-KLM Flying Blue program has just published a new Promo Rewards list for January 2025, offering discounted short haul and long haul awards for travel over the coming months.
There are quite a few destinations bookable with this promotion, including several in North America and the Caribbean, with some being in business class and premium economy. Let’s go over the details, as there’s potentially value to be had.
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What are Flying Blue Promo Rewards?
I’m a big fan of the Air France-KLM Flying Blue program, especially for long haul premium cabin redemptions. Not only does Flying Blue largely have attractive award pricing for business class travel, but the program also has access to more Air France and KLM award space than other programs.
The Promo Rewards offer is published every month by the Flying Blue program, and offers 25% discounts off select awards for travel on Air France and KLM. The Flying Blue program has dynamic award pricing, and this promotion specifically applies for the lowest, saver level award costs.
New Flying Blue Promo Rewards now live
Flying Blue has published its January 2025 Promo Rewards, valid for bookings between January 2 and January 31, 2025. Most of these Promo Rewards have long travel windows, and can be used for flights all the way through June 30, 2025.
As a reminder, Flying Blue has standardized saver award pricing, so ordinarily you’ll pay the following amounts for one-way transatlantic awards between Europe and most of North America:
- One-way economy awards cost 20,000 miles
- One-way premium economy awards cost 35,000 miles
- One-way business class awards cost 50,000 miles
Here are the awards that are available with the Promo Rewards list this month for travel between Europe and North America and the Caribbean, along with the pricing:
- Save 25% on Air France economy awards between Europe and Miami (MIA) — starting at 15,000 miles
- Save 25% on Air France economy awards between Europe and Phoenix (PHX) — starting at 15,000 miles
- Save 25% on KLM economy awards between Europe and Atlanta (ATL) — starting at 15,000 miles
- Save 25% on KLM economy awards between Europe and Aruba (AUA) — starting at 18,750 miles
- Save 25% on Air France premium economy awards between Europe and Cancun (CUN) — starting at 26,250 miles
- Save 25% on Air France premium economy awards between Europe and New York (JFK) — starting at 26,250 miles
- Save 25% on KLM premium economy awards between Europe and Chicago (ORD) — starting at 26,250 miles
- Save 25% on Air France business class awards between Europe and St. Martin (SXM) — starting at 52,500 miles
All of the lowest priced awards in the above markets through June 30, 2025, should be bookable with the Promo Rewards pricing. You can use all of these awards for travel to and from destinations across Europe, so you can travel beyond Amsterdam and Paris.
If you’re having trouble finding availability, remember to use Flying Blue’s secret award calendar. Also keep in mind that children ages two to 12 receive 25% off Flying Blue award tickets, including Promo Rewards.
Earning Flying Blue miles is easy
One of the things that’s awesome about the Flying Blue program is how easy it is to rack up miles:
- Flying Blue is transfer partners with Amex Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Capital One, Chase Ultimate Rewards, and Citi ThankYou, meaning you can transfer points earned from a variety of cards
- Flying Blue sells miles directly, often at an attractive cost, and also has a Subscribe to Miles scheme
- Flying Blue has a co-branded credit card in the United States
- 5x total points on travel purchased through Chase Travel
- 3x points on dining
- 2x points on travel purchases
- $95
- 3x points on Travel after the $300 Annual Travel Credit
- 3x points on Dining
- $300 Travel Credit
- $550
- Earn 3x points on travel
- Earn 3x points on shipping purchases
- Cell Phone Protection
- $95
- 4x points at restaurants, on up to $50,000 in purchases annually
- 4x points at U.S. supermarkets, on up to $25,000 in purchases annually
- 3x points on flights booked directly with airlines or through amextravel.com
- $325
- Earn 5x points on flights purchased directly from airlines or through Amex Travel (up to $500k/year)
- $200 Annual Uber Credit
- Amex Centurion Lounge Access
- $695
- Earn 2x miles per dollar on every purchase
- No Foreign Transaction Fees
- 10,000 bonus miles every account anniversary
- $395
- Earn unlimited 2X miles on every purchase, every day
- No Foreign Transaction Fees
- Global Entry/TSA Pre-Check Credit
- $95
- Unlimited 2x miles per dollar
- No Foreign Transaction Fees
- Capital One Travel Portal
- $0 intro for first year; $95 after that
- 3x on Dining
- Earn Points on Rent with No Fees
- 15 Points Transfer Partners
- $0
Bottom line
The Air France-KLM Flying Blue program offers a Promo Rewards promotion, whereby you can book discounted award tickets in select markets. This can be a great deal, especially when you consider how easy Flying Blue miles are to come by, and also how much award space is available through Flying Blue.
With the latest Promo Rewards, you can save 25% to several destinations in North America and the Caribbean, with options even available in premium economy and business class. This has the potential to be quite a good deal, so if you have any travel you’re interested in booking, this would be a great time to do so.
Are there any Promo Rewards you’re considering booking?
I am also not finding ANY, let alone ALL, Business class trips for 50K points from Europe to N. America or the other way. Was looking for departures from SFO or LAX or ORD.
So I’m looking at the routes included in this and none of them are popping up with the promo rate. Is there an issue that hasn’t been reported or are they just not posting these yet?
Same here, no availability at the promo rate on any of the routes.
Also, when you search without a date it will only show availability for dates after July 1, 2025. I assume there is a bug, but annoying nonetheless.
Same here, I do not find any at that promo reward rate. None on seats.aero as well.
i also did observe the bug with dates not going before July.
Unless I'm missing something, when I follow Lucky's instructions to see the "secret" calendar, it no longer shows a monthly display, but has individual days across the top, but flights for that day below. Using that method, and starting from various US East Coast cities, I could not find any discounted fares in any class.
I get the calendar when I fill no dates in - just the endpoints and class. I don't even have to go to the end, like some have mentioned.
I'm using RDU as one endpoint and CDG has nothing of use, but other European cities connecting there do. I see a number of 50000 one-ways business *from* Europe back to US. I scored a 50000 from Geneva to RDU a month ago for the end...
I get the calendar when I fill no dates in - just the endpoints and class. I don't even have to go to the end, like some have mentioned.
I'm using RDU as one endpoint and CDG has nothing of use, but other European cities connecting there do. I see a number of 50000 one-ways business *from* Europe back to US. I scored a 50000 from Geneva to RDU a month ago for the end of Jan and, while that date's gone, there are other dates later with the same. Copenhagen, as another example, has several 74.5 from here and 50 back, which is about what I got for LHR one year ago.
Just tried that and it worked. Thanks so much for the advice!
The calendar seems to be appearing on my desktop (PC) _after_ I log into my Flying Blue account. Works with both the "Book A Flight" and the "Book With Miles" tabs. Add origin and destination, confirm class, leave dates entirely blank and go. Good luck and I hope this works on your preferred platform.
That worked! Thank you!
This is not regarding the promo rewards, but I haven't found any regular saver awards SFO-CDG/X at 50000 for quite a while. Has anyone else? Lowest is around 80000 adding a leg to PRG/WAW etc. Is SFO just more expensive or has something changed? I thought there was a change in 2023 to standardize award levels. FB used to be a great program for me, now not so much. thanks
Don't know about that route, but I regularly track IAD/JFK-CDG and beyond and I've noticed a severe lack of 50K saver awards there lately. Outside the high season, there used to routinely be several saver fares available every month if booked out far enough, now I'm lucky if I see even one.
Perhaps given the low price and the enormous amount of credit card points that people have, they're just all getting booked?
Umm I think I saw one date near the end of January recently (so like T-30). Definitely not with CDG as the destination, though. It was somewhere in the Nordics, so like SFO-OSL or something with connection in CDG (or AMS).
But yeah SFO and other US West Coast cities are pretty rare nowadays with those 50k awards and almost never at calendar opening like in the "olden days."
I flew biz return to Europe AF in November 50,000 each way from the west coast (although YVR). However zero direct at that rate; had to search, as Lucky suggests often enough, through married flight segments.
Definitely not out of sfo. Even lax is difficult but possible. 60-90k out of/into sfo is possible but I find that I have to be creative.