For example, you could fly Southwest from Los Angeles to Detroit in November for about 14,600 miles round - trip, and then take advantage of the 25,000
mile promo award from Detroit to Europe.
Not exact matches
Hot Tip: Air France / KLM runs monthly
Promo Awards and has some other great
award booking options, so make sure you check out the best way to use Flying Blue
miles.
Because you can't use
miles from other SkyTeam airlines (like Delta) to book Flying Blue
Promo Awards, you'll have to book
award tickets with Flying Blue
miles.
With the new Flying Blue
Promo Awards, you can fly to Europe, the Middle East, and Near Asia on Air France or KLM for only 12,500
miles each way this winter from Atlanta, Boston, Houston, New York, or Washington, DC.
The best ways to use Flying Blue
miles while getting the highest values per point are monthly
Promo Awards.
Promo Awards are already a great way to use Flying Blue miles, but booking these awards for peak travel season in Europe makes the deal even sw
Awards are already a great way to use Flying Blue
miles, but booking these
awards for peak travel season in Europe makes the deal even sw
awards for peak travel season in Europe makes the deal even sweeter.
Bottom Line: Air France / KLM's
Promo Awards are probably the best way to use Flying Blue
miles.
When
Promo Awards are offered at 50 % off for the Europe — North America routes, you'll only pay 12,500
miles each way in economy and 25,000
miles each way in business class... a seriously great deal!
Promo awards, offering 25 - 50 percent off the standard
award chart, are available each month for select flights, but most passengers will spend the bulk of their
miles on classic
awards, which can be used on any partner airline but not on first class cabins.
The best value you'll find for your reward
miles lies in the monthly
promo awards Air France and KLM release each month on the first of the month for travel two months out.
Flying Blue
miles can be used for four different types of
awards:
promo awards, classic
awards, flex
awards and round - the - world
awards.
The highlight of this month's
Promo Awards is probably the 75,000
mile roundtrip Business Class
award between Europe and Havana (see it before its complete ruined) and the discounted
award to Dubai isn't bad either.
With Havana and Dubai both offering Business Class
promo awards this time around I don't see the value in booking Premium Economy (unless you don't have enough
miles for Business Class) and the idea of paying 60,000
miles just to get to Cairo and back really doesn't appeal.
Only business class
awards are included in this month's Promo Awards and can be booked for 25 % off for a total of 46,875 Flying Blue miles in each dire
awards are included in this month's
Promo Awards and can be booked for 25 % off for a total of 46,875 Flying Blue miles in each dire
Awards and can be booked for 25 % off for a total of 46,875 Flying Blue
miles in each direction.
Hot Tip: Air France / KLM runs monthly
Promo Awards and has some other great
award booking options, so make sure you check out the best way to use Flying Blue
miles.
The highlight of this month's
Promo Awards is the Paris — Vancouver Business Class
award for under 100,000
miles.
The highlight of this month's
Promo Awards is either the KLM Business Class
award between Europe and Toronto for 93,750
miles or the Air France Business Class
award between Europe and Cayenne for just 75,000
miles.
First class
awards on Garuda Indonesia usually cost 180,000 Garuda
Miles (or Citi ThankYou Points) for a flight between London (LHR) and Jakarta (CGK), but the
promo rate is 95,000
miles.
1000 KrisFlyer
miles will be
awarded for every successful sign up using the
promo code as stated in the email.
At Flying Blue's regular pricing, you're looking at 25,000
miles each way in economy, and these destinations are eligible for
Promo Awards too, so you can see prices as low as 12,500
miles each way!
The next day, November 2, has a
Promo Award for 31,250
miles with fees of $ 235.12.
Many people who use Flying Blue
miles are trying to book
Promo Awards — a set of monthly specials that are discounted 25 % or 50 % off the normal price.
Moreover, they offer
Promo Awards to certain destinations every month at 25 % or 50 % off the regular number of
miles, so you can occasionally get a transatlantic flight in business class for only 31,250
miles or economy class for only 12,500
miles.
See related: Keeping up with ever - shorter rewards
promos, Professional
award bookers promise «free» flights for fewer
miles, Avoiding your reward card's annual fee
In the example below I was able to pull up a
promo award from JFK to Istanbul one way in business class for 25,000
miles and $ 362.
Flying Blue
miles can book
Promo Awards that cost only 12,500
miles each way to Europe or Israel.
gary, i recently booked a friend a
promo award in biz JFK - CDG to paris and taxes + fuel surcharges were about 1k total per ticket (only 50k
miles though).
However, it has to be during
Promo Awards, and most of the time
Promo Awards are 25 % off... which is still great at 37,5000
miles.
If you're looking for a secondary Citi card, the ThankYou program can actually be useful if you can make good use of Flying Blue
promo awards and Singapore Krisflyer
miles.
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award bookers promise «free» flights for fewer
miles, Keeping up with ever - shorter rewards
promos
If your destination happens to be a
Promo Award for your dates, it will be less than 125,000 with KLM / AirFrance, but likely not less than 80,000
miles roundtrip.