The newest set of Air France KLM’s Promo Rewards came out today and for this month we see all five Canadian cities included! With promo
awards the
discount
ranges from 20 to 50%
off the regular amount of miles required to redeem for these flights. As
you can see just by the
discount this can be a very good offer if you get 50% off for Business
Class! This month Vancouver gets lucky with 50% off business class tickets! All other cities see 25% off in business class while Montreal also get 25% off economy class
Offer details
October Promo Rewards – Save 20%
to 50% on the Award Miles usually required for an award ticket.
Destinations vary by each promotional period. Full Details
Canadian cities included this month:
Calgary – 25% off business class
Edmonton – 25% off business class
Montreal – 25% off economy and business class
Toronto – 25% off business class
Vancouver – 50% off business class
Here are the mileage requirements for flying from the five Canadian cities to Amsterdam and/or Paris (the mileage amount will vary for other cities)
And an example of some of the availability from Vancouver to Amsterdam:
and on the return
Here’s what a round trip on the above route looks like:
Not bad at all – 60,500 miles and $631.73 in fees and taxes for business
class. Under the old promo awards this flight would have been 62,500
miles plus the same fees. Yes the fees are on the high side but most
other programs who may have lower fees would be costing you at least 50%
more miles.
But there are better opportunities for less miles for the business class offer from Vancouver:
That’s right only 53,000 miles and $677.83 for a round trip flight to Europe in Business Class. Can’t get better than that unless you can find another city in Europe that may actually price lower (but we all know Flying Blue’s system is really fun to deal with!)
Some other cities we have found at the 53,000 level. Remember as well you can book one ways for half this amount – 26,500 miles!
Here are some economy class options from Montreal:
There are many other possible options to check out if this works for you
and if you don’t have enough miles for a Promo Reward your best bet
is to convert Marriott Rewards points to Flying Blue on a 3:1 basis. Remember you’ll earn 5,000 bonus miles when
you convert 60,000 points at a time (a total of 25,000 miles per 60,000 points) That means 120,000 points will get you to 50,000 miles – you could always transfer the small amount more to get to 53,000 for those round trips.
If you don’t have any Marriott Rewards Points you
can always look at getting the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express to top off your account. Currently
the card
comes with a 50,000 point sign up bonus when you spend $1,500 on the card and then you could
also grab The
Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card from American Express as it also has 50,000 point sign up bonus and then you
would ultimately be able to have 100,000 points not
including what is earned on spending. Of course timing of
getting the card(s) now, spending and getting the points will likely not
happen for this month but it sets you up for future offers. Need to
grab two tickets for an itinerary? You could choose to
get one SPG card for yourself and one for your partner or spouse and you’ll have a lot more points!