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…
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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…
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…
Free Gogo Winner For Sharing A380 Seat Preference
Last week we ran a quick give away for a free Gogo wifi card. We asked each of you to respond with your favorite seat on Air France’s A380. Looks like the common selection would be up front on the lower deck if price wasn’t an issue. We went with seat 62B and really enjoyed…
AF Codeshare TGV Train To Paris – Part 1 Journey To SMD4 Launch Event
During a prolonged gaze out the window of a high speed train, we caught a very small glimpse of the region between Brussels and Paris. The short look at the countryside was just enough to reinforce our travel approach. We always try to make the journey part of the experience. Our recent trip on the…
First A380 Flight With Air France + Free Gogo
For some reason we are very excited about our Air France flight in business class. We don’t love their slanted lie at an angle business class seat but it’s still exciting because we are trying something new. We are flying our first A380 just in time to get to the SMD4 kickoff event. Last month…
Coach Award To French Polynesia – After Only 6 Avis Car Rentals
This weekend we shared the fees for business class awards to French Polynesia using the Delta and Air France programs. In this post, we’ll share the coach award pricing, as well as a promotion to earn miles for a “free” ticket with only 6 car rentals. Delta requires 150,000 SkyMiles and Air France requires 120,000…
Business Class to French Polynesia – Fees On Delta vs Air France
One of our best dream award vacations was to French Polynesia. We were fortunate enough to use Delta SkyMiles to fly on Air France in business class. By using airline miles we took a trip to French Polynesia we would not otherwise have been able to afford. We experienced our first ever over water bungalows…
Illustrating How Delta And Air France May Block Award Availability
For the past few weeks SkyMiles members have been loosing confidence in Delta’s shabby award booking engine. The ability to book Air France awards has been off, then on, and now appears to be on a route specific basis. Here are a few examples of where Delta is and is not showing Air France availability.…
Jet Airliner Photo Series Of Planes Over People And Beaches
There are a few beaches where you feel you can reach out and touch a Jet. Getting a glimpse from the perspective of the belly of the plane is rare and exciting. Maho beach at the Princess Juliana International Airport on St Maarten is one of these places. The photograph series “Jet Airliner” by Joseph Hoflehner has great…