You can also choose to donate your miles to charity if you are so inclined. If you want to use your Miles towards a flight, you can book your Award Ticket on www. You will be required to enter your Flying Blue login details first. Also, you will not be able to book a stopover online. It is important to keep in mind that upgrade awards are subject to availability. Upgrade awards are offered on the basis of a one-way journey from zone to zone. If you have booked a roundtrip ticket and want to travel in a higher class both ways, upgrades must be requested for the segments of the out and inbound flights.
Stopovers need to be booked over the phone though. There are four different Elite Tiers that you can work your way up to. There is also the Silver level, Gold level, and Platinum Level. The Platinum Level requires 70, Level Miles or 60 qualifying flights.
Every level has a threshold, which is to say that you will need a certain amount of Level Miles or qualifying flights to reach them respectively. On December 31 each year, your Level Miles and qualifying flights balance from the previous 12 months is checked.
To maintain your membership level, you will need to have reached either of these two thresholds. While other airline frequent flyer programs typically limit the number of ways you can earn points, that is not the case with this program. You will be able to use the points you accrue in this program towards award flights, class upgrades, hotel bookings, car rentals, and much more. Another great benefit of the Flying Blue program is that there is no charge for stopovers, so you will be able to save as much money as possible when redeeming your awards flights.
There are also no last minute booking fees, which is just another way for you to save money. As you work your way up the various elite membership levels, you will be able to enjoy more and more significant benefits, including earning more points when you travel with Air France or one of their partners. Calculate mileage price. Both of these frequent flyer programs belong to SkyTeam.
Those who are a member of the Flying Blue rewards program can expect to earn a number of different perks and benefits. Expiration: Miles expire 20 months since last activity. For some programs, an activity is any accrual of miles, crediting a flight, transfering or purchasing miles. For others, spending activities such as redeeming or donating points counts as an activity.
Flying Blue has its own fuel surcharge table for intra Europe flights where rates depend from booking class and destination. Here are the perks associated with each elite status level. As mentioned previously, Flying Blue works in euros. We've listed a typical range in dollars for comparison. Standard seat free of charge for you and a travel companion.
Free additional baggage item on SkyTeam flights. SkyPriority benefits at the airport. The airline designs a new Dutch house every year and has presented these souvenirs to KLM premium-cabin flyers since the s.
To add a porcelain Delft house to your collection, simply book an intercontinental flight in World Business Class. Flying Blue may be a foreign loyalty program, but U. Although the program uses dynamic pricing for its redemption rates, it still makes low-level awards available to those whose schedule is flexible. On top of that, transfer bonuses from certain bank programs can drop redemption rates even lower.
Here are our picks for the best travel credit cards of , including those best for:. How to earn Flying Blue miles. Earn by flying. Partner airlines. Air Corsica. Air Europa. Air France. Air Mauritius.
Bangkok Airways. Chalair Aviation. China Airlines. China Eastern Airlines. China Southern Airlines. Copa Airlines. Czech Airlines. Delta Air Lines.
Garuda Indonesia. Japan Airlines. Kenya Airways. Korean Air. Thankfully, U. Another interesting quirk of Flying Blue is that you earn points based on segments. This equals 45 XP total for the one-way trip, already getting you almost half-way to Silver status. This may come as a surprise to some, but Flying Blue actually has a cobranded U. This means that you can earn more than half the XP needed for Silver status every year without stepping foot on an airplane.
This is an excellent deal for U. Granted, its usefulness is minimal for many U. If Silver is your goal, you can simply apply for the card and take a couple of short-haul hops to Canada to earn status quickly. Gold or Platinum, on the other hand, will take a little bit more work. Gold requires XP. You can shave this down to XP with the cobranded credit card and earn those through a mix of short-haul international hops and flights to Europe.
For example, the remaining XP could be earned by taking two round-trip business class flights to Canada from the U. Regardless, though, you will need to spend quite a bit of time on a plane in order to earn the status, but the cobranded credit card helps by taking a couple of flights out of the mix.
Thankfully, there are a ton of awesome ways for U. Naturally, you can earn Flying Blue miles by flying. How you actually earn these miles varies by airline, though. This is also the case for tickets booked on a Flying Blue airline website but operated by another carrier. Flying Blue members without status earn 4 miles per euro spent, while Silver, Gold and Platinum members earn 6, 7, and 8 miles per euro spent, respectively.
On the other hand, a Flying Blue member without elite status would earn 1, miles. Earning with SkyTeam and non-alliance Flying Blue partners is a different story, though.
Each airline partner awards a different number of miles for each fare class — you can find how many miles your partner flight earns on the Flying Blue partners page.
Then, multiply the length of your flight in miles by the percentage next to your fare class. This is the same process for SkyTeam and non-alliance partners, so you can earn Flying Blue miles based on distance flown for a number of different airlines.
There are some interesting non-alliance partners, including Copa Airlines, Japan Airlines and Qantas. This card earns 3 Flying Blue miles per dollar spent on SkyTeam airfare purchases, and 1. TPG values Flying Blue miles at 1.
The best way to earn Flying Blue miles is by using a transferrable points card. Amex, Citi and Chase transfer at a ratio, Capital One transfers at a This is because cards that earn these points often earn bonus points in specific spending categories like travel, dining, groceries and more.
One of my favorite transferrable points cards is the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card. This includes Priority Pass lounge access which includes many Air France lounges , a Lyft Pink membership and other various perks.
Plus, it earns 3x points per dollar spent on travel and dining purchases, making it even more rewarding for everyday spending.
Related: Chase adds limited-time Sapphire benefits to help grounded travelers. Likewise, you can use the program to earn Flying Blue miles when staying at Accor properties. Earnings start immediately, so be sure to do it before your next Flying Blue member flight or Accor hotel stay.
Not staying at an Accor hotel? You can still earn Flying Blue miles when you book hotels. Flying Blue has a hotel booking platform called Hotels for Points. Using this portal, you can earn up to 10, Flying Blue miles per night booked through the portal, with promoted and more expensive stays generally earning more miles.
On the other hand, a euro per night room at the Waldorf Astoria Chicago earns 6, miles per night.
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