Chase is offering a limited-time 20% bonus when transferring Ultimate Rewards to Flying Blue (Air France/KLM). With the bonus, the transfer rate is 1 point – 1.2 Flying Blue Miles.
The one downfall of Flying Blue is that there are often substantial surcharges, especially with business class awards, but reasonable-ish miles pricing and a 20% bonus will certainly help a bit with the sting.
The Deal
- Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering a 20% transfer bonus when you transfer points to Air France / KLM Flying Blue.
Key Terms
- Ends 9/30/25
Minimum transfer is 1,000 Ultimate Rewards points. - Bonus Miles will be awarded by Flying Blue in your Flying Blue account when your transfer is complete.
Quick Thoughts
This bonus could be useful if you want to take advantage of some Flying Blue awards. Even when the cheapest pricing isn’t available, Flying Blue still often has reasonably priced awards available for just a bit more — and with a transfer bonus, you’d be paying less than sticker price.
Flying Blue partners with all of the major transferable currencies, so it’s very easy to put together enough miles for an award ticket. I’ll personally sit this one out, since I don’t need an award booking right now and I won’t speculatively transfer. However, if you do have your eyes on a flight through Flying Blue, this transfer bonus could be attractive.
Best Uses for 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 60,000 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
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