American Express Membership Rewards has added a 20% bonus for transfer to Air France/KLM Flying Blue for transfers through 11/10/24. With business class to Europe starting at 50K miles one-way, this could be an attractive opportunity for folks that can find availability.
The Deal
- Get a 20% bonus when transferring American Express Membership Rewards to Air France/KLM Flying Blue
Terms and Conditions
- Expires 11/10/24
- Minimum transfer is 1,000 Membership Rewards points
Quick Thoughts
Flying Blue has several sweet spots that can make them very attractive, with the caveat that fuel surcharges can be significant. That said, we tend to find way more “saver” space on Flying Blue than with other SkyTeam partners like Delta or Virgin Atlantic and with prices starting at 50K one-way from the US-Europe in business class, there’s plenty of juice to squeeze.
Best Uses for Air France / KLM Flying Blue miles
- Air France Flying Blue Promo Rewards. Each month, Air France offers discounted award rates for a number of routes. Sometimes we see economy flights from the US to Europe available for less than 11,000 miles one-way.
- Fly to Israel for the same award price as to Europe. For example, you may see business class flights from the U.S. to Tel Aviv for as low as 50,000 miles one-way.
- Delta economy flights between the US and Hawaii for 17,500 miles one-way. Air France also has great award prices for Delta first class to Hawaii, but Delta rarely releases first class award space on its Hawaii routes.
Things to know
- Air France awards usually incur taxes and fees.
- Award availability can be hard to find. Acquire Flying Blue miles only if you know that the awards you want are available.
- Flying Blue miles expire 2 years after they are earned. Keeping miles alive beyond two years is… weird:
- As long as you don’t credit any flying activity to your account, you can renew your miles by acquiring more miles through non-flight activity. For example, transferring miles from a transferable points program will renew these miles.
- If you earn miles by crediting flight activity to your account, then all of your miles become flight activity miles and can only be extended by taking an eligible flight (and crediting it to Flying Blue), or by being an elite member, or making a purchase with your Air France / KLM Flying Blue credit card.
- For more details, see: Air France’s Flying Blue miles are easier to extend than I thought
Other available transfer bonuses
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Amex transfer bonuses to FlyingBlue have consistently been 25% since at least 2018. Disappointed to see only 20%.
a lot of people were speculating this when the 20k MR offer for Flying Blue came out, and there we have it!