Air France KLM have announced changes to their
Flying Blue program that will take place on April 1, 2018. The big news,
is that they are following suit of many other airline programs and
moving to a strict revenue based earning system rather than distance
based. Earning for flights will be as follows:
Ivory members (Base level): 4 miles per EUR
Silver members: 6 miles per EUR
Gold members: 7 miles per EUR
Platinum members: 8 miles per EUR
Earning elite status will change to earning Experience Points (XP)
rather than status miles/qualifying flights. Hit 100 XP in a rolling 12
month period and you’ll get Silver status, 180 for Gold or 300 for
Platinum. The key term now is rolling 12 month period, rather than
calendar year. This will kick in on April 1.
Mileage expiry is also changing, the 24 month rule stays in place but
all miles earned remain valid if you fly with Air France KLM or other
SkyTeam airlines or use a Flying Blue credit card once every 2 years
however miles earned on their own from flying non-SkyTeam partners, car
rentals, hotels etc. will continue to be valid as long as you earn from
those partners once every two years if you don’t have an AF KLM SkyTeam
flight or credit card purhcase. Make sense?
They don’t reveal too much on the redemption side other than all
seats will be available, which we can assume will be on a sliding scale
much like Aeroplan’s Market Fare awards and they will also give you the
option to use Miles+Cash for awards (up to 25% of an award can be paid
for with cash if you don’t have enough miles) Promo Awards will continue
however under the new moniker of Promo Reward Tickets. The redemption
options are slated to go live in June 2018.
I’m sure we’ll write about this even more as April and June of 2018 approach!
Find out more about the Flying Blue changes here.
Posts since our last update:
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BeVancouver‘s offer of
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