The Flying Blue (Air France / KLM / Air Europa) loyalty program offers heavily discounted Flying Blue awards called Promo Awards for certain routes throughout the year. Some awards are now being released for travel July all the way through September 15, 2013. The best part is the discounts are now available in First Class.…
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Hurry – Two French Polynesia Business Class Award Seats Available
A quick search of Air France’s US website (Airfrance.us) and I was able to locate two Business Class seats at the low award level. Delta members know they can reserve these seats for 150,000 Delta SkyMiles a piece. You can reserve the same exact flight for only 120,000 American Express Membership Rewards points plus $262.70…
Air France’s New Route To Paris Has Plenty of Business Class Award Availability
Air France has announced a new flight between Paris and Minneapolis. Ideally, this would mean enhanced award availability for SkyTeam partners as well as Flying Blue members. The flight will operate 5 times week May 21 through June 16th and then will go up to one daily flight from June 17, 2013 through September 1,…
Booking Air France First Class Awards – Gold Status Match Success
Air France restricts the ability to book First Class awards to elite members. This is well known. So when a status match opportunity came up late last year, I quickly sent Air France my credentials to match over to their Gold Elite status. Confirmed Gold Status It wasn’t clear if Air France would process the…
Business Class Availability To Seychelles On SkyTeam
Don’t tell anyone, but you can fly on SkyTeam partner airlines to the Seychellles in Business Class at the low award level. I’ll illustrate how you can get to the Seychelles for only 120,000 Delta SkyMiles in Business Class. A little known flight option was closed a few years ago. A Delta SkyMiles member used…
Air France Plans New Business Class Seat – Same As Cathay Pacific
Air France is well known for having a “lie-flat” angled seat leaves customers battling gravity when the seat is reclined. But that will change. Air France will upgrade their Business Class to the same seats as Cathay Pacific, Cirrus Zodiac, according to this article is La Tribune (hint: Google translator). The seats are well regarded…
Instant Flying Blue Gold Status Through Status Match Offer
Flying Blue is offering a status match to Flying Blue Gold Status (hat tip to View From The Wing) and I just took them up on the offer. The results of the status match were quick. I’ll take you through the status match process in this post. Status Match Request The status match request process…
Discounted Business Class Chicago To Europe For 20k SPG Points One-Way
You may know that you can redeem only 20,000 Starwood hotel points for a one-way Business Class ticket to Europe through the Flying Blue promo awards. But they’ve now added a few more discounted flight options for 2013 between North America and Europe. The newest Business Class route is with KLM between Chicago and Europe.…
The 20K SPG Point One-Way Business Class To Europe Or 40K Point Round-Trip Award Flight
Did you know you can redeem only 20,000 Starwood hotel points for a one-way Business Class ticket to Europe? Even better, you could redeem 20,000 Starwood hotel points for a round-trip coach ticket to Europe. In this post we’ll share how you can quickly earn, transfer and redeem only 20,000 Starpoints for a discount award…
Win 2 Air France Business Tickets And 4 Night Sofitel Hotel Stay
Air France has teamed up with a few partners to offer two Business Class tickets to Paris on Air France. In addition, Sofitel is tossing in a four night stay in the Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg. But it gets even better because Barneys New York is throwing in $5,000 for a shopping spree in Barneys…
US To Europe Discount Awards – 48k Coach, 40k Business or 35k Coach Round Trip
Did you know United Coach Class to Europe at a 20% discount for 48,000 miles? Perhaps you’ve read about it. But did you know you can book a Business Class award for only 40,000 SPG Starpoints or redeem only 35,000 US Airways Dividend miles for a round trip Coach Class during low season? These are…
Up To 20,000 Flying Blue Bonus Miles – KLM And Air France Promotion
Air France’s Flying Blue program is offering a special promotion on purchasing miles. The promotion runs from now until December 31, 2012. If you buy miles through this offer, you could receive up to 45,000 bonus miles! Air France Buy Miles Promotion How: How does it work? Buy between 20,000 and 28,000 Award Miles from Air…
Delta Showing Air France Business Class Availability After May
Earlier this week Gary from View from the Wing, and Lucky from One Mile At A Time, shared their concerns over Delta’s website not showing Air France availability in Business Class. It appears the availability is back up, at least post-May 2013, as I’m seeing plenty of availability across the board next summer. Air France…
Booking Delta’s 90k One-Way Business Class Award To Asia
There is no way I would advocate redeeming 90,000 Delta SkyMiles for a one-way Business Class award to Asia. But that doesn’t keep me from finding it interesting that you can actually price out a one-way Business Class award for only 90,000 to Asia when their award chart clearly shows they require 120,000 SkyMiles for…
Korean Air Secrets – 60,000 First Class To French Polynesia From Hawaii
I recently flew Korean Air in Business Class and was quite impressed. As a result of the flying experience, I wanted to learn more about their program. What I found was interesting. I shared how you can fly on Air France to French Polynesia in Business Class by using only 90,000 Korean Air SkyPass Miles.…
Win London VIP Trip With Air France, Travel + Leisure And Thrillist
Air France has teamed up with Travel + Leisure to offer a summer trip to London in VIP style. One lucky winner will receive two round-trip airfare to London, 3 nights in a swanky hotel, and a curated set of restaurants. The winner will fly in Air France’s economy class, not exactly VIP in my…
Delta Secrets – 20k SPG Point Business Class One-Way Award
The Delta SkyMiles program benefits provide real value for members. I’ve found value with award tickets to the Seychelles and Mauritius, Bora Bora, Italy, and a number of other places. But their benefits are not as great as other programs that have benefits such as confirmed upgrades (that you can actually use on an affordable…
Air France A380 Upper Deck Business Class Review
The two hour Paris layover after the TGV train ride went by quick. Before I knew it, the Air France A380 boarding process started. After my boarding pass was scanned, I headed through the the glass jetway and up a set of escalators to the second deck of the Air France A380. The flight was…
Don’t Make This Mistake – Air France Codeshare TGV Train
Last week we booked the TGV train to catch the Air France A380 flight from Paris to Washington DC. The train ride was top notch. We fly Delta often and thought that since the TGV train was a codeshare with Air France, that we’d earn Delta Medallion Qualifying Miles, bonus miles, segments, and base miles.…
Air France Paris Lounge – Part 2 Journey To SMD4 Launch Event
We only had a two hour layover in Paris before catching the A380 to Washington DC. So we headed straight for the Air France lounge after we got off the TGV train. Thanks to being able to print all of our boarding passes at the Air France ticket counter in the train station, we didn’t…