The newest set of Air France KLM’s Promo Awards
were released at the end of December and this time we only see two Canadian cities in the promotion. With promo awards the
discount
ranges from 25 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! However for us here in Canada the 50% offers are few and far between but we
do get 25% off which can definitely be utilized by some! While 25%
isn’t as good as 50% of course, it still is
something to look at if you were planning travel to Europe for February.
The offers are for January are:
Calgary, Edmonton, to Europe: 25% off Business Class
Offer Details:
January Promo Awards – Save 20% to 50% on the Award Miles usually required
for an award ticket. Destinations vary by each promotional period. Full Details Book by Jan 31 for travel Mar 1 – Apr 30, 18 (
Here are all the details on the Canadian offers available for booking this month:
Don’t
have all the miles? Hopefully you took advantage of the Flying Blue 100%
bonus on buying miles earlier in fall of 2017 so that you could use them for this
month’s offer. They do however have a 50% bonus going on right now until
Dec 31! You can buy enough miles for the round trip business class
flight for around C$2700.00 then you would have to add in the taxes and
fees for the flights which can run upwards of $600. So ideally you’d
only want to buy miles if the value of the ticket is more than $3,300
which many times it can be in the high $4,000 or $5,000 range unless
they have one of their business class sales going on where the price of
the ticket could be under $3,000.
You could
always consider
transferring Starpoints earned via the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express
to Flying Blue. The card has a 20,000 Starpoint bonus right now which
translates to 25,000 Flying Blue miles and a nice way to top off your account for one of these awards.
Another option to pad your Flying Blue account to get these award flights would be to take advantage of Marriott’s Travel Packages where you can get 7 nights and miles as follows (although these packages are less valuable than Package #1 options):
If you are interested availability seems to be plentiful on the routes:
Calgary to Amsterdam and v.v.
Edmonton to Amsterdam and v.v.
